TY - BOOK AU - Downing,Angela AU - Locke,Philip TI - A university course in English grammar SN - 041528810X U1 - 425 PY - 2002/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - English language KW - Grammar KW - Textbooks for foreign speakers N1 - Originally published: Prentice Hall International, 1992; Includes index; Preface --; Table of symbols and notational conventions --; Introduction Acknowledgements --; Our Thanks to --; 1; Basic concepts --; 2; The skeleton of the message: Introduction to clause structure --; 3; The development of the message: Complementation of the verb --; 4; Expressing patterns of experience: Processes, participants, circumstances --; 5; Interaction between speaker and hearer: Mood structures of the clause --; 6; Organising the message: Thematic and information structures of the clause --; 7; Expanding and projecting the message: The clause complex --; 8; Talking about events: The Verbal Group --; 9; Viewpoints on events: Tense, aspect and modality --; 10; Talking about 'things': The Nominal Group --; 11; Talking about Attributes: The Adjectival Group --; 12; How, where and when: The Adverbial Group --; 13; Spatial, temporal and other relationships --; Key of Selected Answers --; Index ER -