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A Student's Grammar of the English Language / Sidney Greenbaum, Randolph Quirk

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Harlow : Longman, 1990Description: v, 490 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0582059712 pbk
  • 0582075696
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PE1112 .G74 1990
Contents:
The English language; a general framework; verbs and auxiliaries; the semantics of the verb phrase; nouns and determiners; pronouns; adjectives and adverbs; the semantics and grammar of adverbials; prepositions and prepositional phrases; the simple sentence; sentence types and discourse functions; pro-forms and ellipsis; co-ordination; the complex sentence; syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses; complementation of verbs and adjectives; the noun phrase; theme, focus and information processing; from sentences to text
Summary: A shortened version of "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" especially aimed at students of grammar in colleges and universities, drawing on linguistic research and including coverage of the differences between written and spoken English and between British and American English.
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Includes bibliography and index

The English language; a general framework; verbs and auxiliaries; the semantics of the verb phrase; nouns and determiners; pronouns; adjectives and adverbs; the semantics and grammar of adverbials; prepositions and prepositional phrases; the simple sentence; sentence types and discourse functions; pro-forms and ellipsis; co-ordination; the complex sentence; syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses; complementation of verbs and adjectives; the noun phrase; theme, focus and information processing; from sentences to text

A shortened version of "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" especially aimed at students of grammar in colleges and universities, drawing on linguistic research and including coverage of the differences between written and spoken English and between British and American English.

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