Celce-Murcia, Marianne.

The grammar book : an ESL/EFL teacher's course / Marianne Celce-Murcia, Diane Larsen-Freeman with Howard Williams. - Second edition. - viii, 854 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- To the Course Instructor -- Preface -- Introduction -- Grammatical Metalanguage -- The Lexicon -- The Copula and Subject-Verb Agreement -- Introduction to Phrase Structure -- More Phrase Structure Rules -- The Tense and Aspect System -- Modal Auxiliaries and Related Phrasal Forms -- The Tense-Aspect-Modality System in Discourse -- Negation -- Yes/No Questions -- Imperatives -- Wh-Questions -- Other Structures That Look Like Questions -- Articles -- Reference and Possession -- Partitives, Collectives, and Quantifiers -- The Passive Voice -- Sentences with Indirect Objects -- Adjectives -- Prepositions -- Phrasal Verbs -- Nonreferential It and There as Subjects -- Coordinating Conjunction -- Adverbials -- Logical Connectors -- Conditional Sentences -- Introduction to Relative Clauses -- More on Relative Clauses -- Focus and Emphasis -- Complementation -- Other Aspects of Complementation and Embedded Clauses -- Reported Speech and Writing -- Degree - Comparatives and Equatives -- Degree - Complements and Superlatives -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Answers to Exercises -- Index of Names -- Index of Languages and Language Groups -- Index of Words and Phrases -- Index of Topics. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16. Ch. 17. Ch. 18. Ch. 19. Ch. 20. Ch. 21. Ch. 22. Ch. 23. Ch. 24. Ch. 25. Ch. 26. Ch. 27. Ch. 28. Ch. 29. Ch. 30. Ch. 31. Ch. 32. Ch. 33. Ch. 34. Ch. 35. Ch. 36.

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English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
English language--Grammar

PE1128.A2 / C39 1999

428.071