A Concise Grammar of Contemporary EnglishVarieties of english - Elements of grammar - The verb phrase - Nouns, pronouns, and the basic noun phrase - Adjectives and adverbs - Prepositions and prepositional phrases - The simple sentence - Adjunts, disjuncts, conjuncts - Coordination and apposition - Sentence connection - The complex setence - The verb and its complementation - The complex noun phrase - Focus, theme, and emphasis - Word formation - Stress, rhythm, and intonation - Punctuation. |
Contents
Sentence elements 12 Parts of speech 18 Stative and dynamic | 20 |
Auxiliaries 35 Tense and aspect 40 Mood | 51 |
Noun classes 59 Determiners 61 Reference and the articles | 67 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjective phrase adverbs attributive boys cleft sentence co-occur common commonly concord conjoin conjuncts construction contrast coordination corresponding count nouns denoting direct object element ellipsis ellipted English equivalent example expressed finite focus foreign plural function gender genitive girl gradable implied indefinite indicate indirect infinitive clause inflected informal intensifiers intonation intransitive introduced John main clause Mary meaning modal auxiliaries modified negation negative non-count non-finite clauses non-restrictive normally Note noun phrase occur participle clause passive past perfect aspect person phrasal verbs place adjuncts postmodifier preceding predication premodifier prepositional complement prepositional phrases prepositional verbs present pro-form pronoun Q-element reference relation relationship relative clauses restricted second appositive semantic sentence singular speech stative stress structure student subject complement subordinate clause suffix superordinate clause syntactic tense that-clause tion tive to-infinitive transitive verbs usually verb phrase verbless clauses wh-questions words yes-no question