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To the Instructor | |
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Introduction | |
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Conscious and Unconscious Knowledge | |
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How Does the Grammar Work? | |
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This Book's Purpose | |
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Why Study Grammar? | |
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Summary | |
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Describing a Sentence | |
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Discovering the Parts of Sentences | |
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Labeled Brackets and Boxes | |
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Reed-Kellog Diagrams | |
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Tree Diagrams | |
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An Elementary Grammar of English | |
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Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives | |
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Proper and Common Nouns | |
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Transitive and Intransitive Verbs | |
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Simplifying the Phrase-Structure Rules | |
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Adjectives | |
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A Further Note on Meaning | |
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Linking Verbs | |
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The Parts of Speech | |
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Prepositions and Personal Pronouns | |
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Prepositions | |
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Personal Pronouns | |
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A Further Word on Inflections | |
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Varieties of English | |
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Coordinate Phrases and Complement Clauses | |
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Coordination | |
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Complement Clauses | |
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Classification of Clauses | |
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Determiners, Adverbs, and Other Modifiers | |
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Determiners | |
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Adverbials | |
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Degree Modifiers | |
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Nominal Modifiers | |
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Summary and Review: Chapters 1-6 | |
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Transformational Rules: Altering Elements in a Sentence | |
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Particles | |
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Optional and Obligatory Rules | |
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Our Goals A Review and Update | |
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Three More Transformational Rules | |
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Moving Adverbial Phrases | |
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Imperative Sentences | |
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Indirect Objects | |
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Must Transformations Apply in a Particular Order? | |
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Pronouns: Another Analysis | |
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A Personal-Pronoun Transformation | |
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Deriving Possessive Pronouns | |
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Reflexive Pronouns | |
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English Pronouns An Inventory | |
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Conditions for Applying the Personal-Pronoun Transformation | |
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An Order for Applying Transformations An Update | |
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More Embedded Sentences: Adverbial Clauses and Relative Clauses | |
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Adverbial Clauses | |
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Relative Clauses | |
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Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses and Phrases | |
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Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses | |
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Accounting for Nonrestrictive Clauses | |
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Apposition | |
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Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Adjectival Phrases | |
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Summary and Review: Chapters 7-11 | |
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Verb Inflections | |
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Present and Past Tenses | |
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Modal Auxiliaries | |
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Perfect and Progressive Auxiliaries | |
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Negatives and Questions | |
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Negative Sentences | |
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Questions | |
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The Passive Voice | |
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Active and Passive Voice | |
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Deriving Passive Sentences | |
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Summary and Review: Chapters 12-14 | |
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Infinitives | |
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Infinitive Verb Forms | |
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Complement Infinitives | |
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The Auxiliary Category in Infinitive Phrases | |
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Adverbial Infinitives | |
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Relative Infinitives | |
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Extraposed Infinitives | |
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Summary of Principal Infinitive Patterns | |
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A Note on Usage: Split Infinitives | |
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Gerunds, Participles, and Absolutes | |
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Gerunds | |
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Participles | |
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Absolutes | |
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Abbreviating Sentences: Ellipsis and Pro-Forms | |
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Ellipsis | |
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Pro-Forms | |
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Retrospective | |
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A Taste of Theoretical Syntax | |
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Some Claims of Syntactic Theory | |
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Grammar in the Schools | |
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A Brief History of Grammar Instruction | |
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Teaching Grammar Is Not Teaching Reading and Writing | |
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