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| Preface to the third edition | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The organisation of the chapters | |
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| A note on how to read this book | |
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| Sentence structure: constituents | |
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| Structure | |
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| Establishing constituents | |
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| 'Phrase' and 'constituent' | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion of exercises | |
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| Further exercises | |
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| Sentence structure: functions | |
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| Subject and predicate | |
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| Noun Phrase and Verb Phrase | |
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| Dependency and function | |
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| Head | |
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| The modifier-head relation | |
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| The head-complement relation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion of exercises | |
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| Further exercises | |
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| Sentence structure: categories | |
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| Nouns | |
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| Lexical and phrasal categories (noun and Noun Phrase) | |
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| Adjectives and adverbs | |
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| Adjective Phrases and Adverb Phrases | |
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| Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Co-ordinate Phrases | |
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| Diagrams for in-text exercises | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion of exercises | |
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| Further exercises | |
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| The basic Verb Phrase | |
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| A first look at verbs | |
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| The complements of lexical verbs | |
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| Transitive verbs | |
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| Intransitive verbs | |
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| Ditransitive verbs | |
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| Intensive verbs | |
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| Complex transitive verbs | |
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| Prepositional verbs | |
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| Summary | |
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| Discussion of in-text exercises | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion of exercises | |
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| Further exercises | |
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| Adverbials and other matters | |
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| Adjunct adverbials (VP adverbials) | |
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| Levels of Verb Phrase | |
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| The mobility of adverbials | |
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| Phrasal verbs | |
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| Ellipsis | |
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| Sentence adverbials (S adverbials) | |
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| Discussion of in-text exercises | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion of exercises | |
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| Further exercises | |
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| More on verbs: auxiliary VPs | |
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| Lexical and auxiliary verbs | |
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| Tense and time | |
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| The contrast between lexical and auxiliary verbs | |
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| Modal auxiliaries (MOD) | |
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| The perfect auxiliary - have (PERF) | |
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| The progressive auxiliary - be (PROG) | |
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| The passive auxiliary - be (PASS) | |
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| Where auxiliaries fit in the structure of VP | |
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| Auxiliary VPs and adverbials | |
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| Constructions that depend on auxiliaries | |
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| Passive sentences | |
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| Negative sentences and auxiliary do | |
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| Questions - fronting the tensed auxiliary | |
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| More on have and be | |
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| Discussion of in-text exercises | |
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| Exercises for Part I | |
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| Exercises for Part II | |
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| Discussion of exercises | |
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| Further exercises (Part I) | |
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| Further exercises (Part II) | |
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| The structure of Noun Phrases | |
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| Determiners | |
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| Pre-determiners | |
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| Pre-modifiers in NOM | |
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| Quantifying adjectives | |
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| Participle phrases (PartP) | |
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| Nouns | |
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| More on the structure of NOM | |
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| Post-modifiers | |
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| Prepositional Phrases | |
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| More on Adjective Phrases | |
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| Modification of pronouns | |
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| Discussion of in-text exercises | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion of exercises | |
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| Further exercises | |
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| Appendix: NOM and the pro-form one | |
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| Answers to exercise | |
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| Further exercise | |
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| Sentences within sentences | |
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| Complementisers: that and whether | |
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| The functions of that- and whether-clauses | |
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| Subject - and extraposed subject | |
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| Complement of V within VP | |
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| Complement of A within AP | |
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| Complement of N within NP | |
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| Complement of P within PP | |
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| Adverbial clauses | |
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| Discussion of in-text exercises | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion of exercises | |
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| Further exercises | |
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| Wh-clauses | |
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| Wh-questions | |
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| Subordinate wh-clauses | |
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| Subordinate wh-interrogative clauses | |
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| Relative clauses | |
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| Omission of the wh-phrase | |
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| That again | |
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| Restrictive vs. non-restrictive | |
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| Discussion of in-text exercises | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion of exercises | |
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| Further exercises | |
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| Questions and interrogatives | |
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| Relative clauses and other matters | |
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| Non-finite clauses | |
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| The form of non-finite clauses | |
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| The form of non-finite verbs | |
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| Ia. Bare infinitive verbs | |
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| Ib. To-infinitive verbs | |
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| IIa. Passive participle verbs | |
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| IIb. -ing participle verbs | |
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| Complementisers and non-finite clauses | |
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| C1: for and whether | |
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| C2: fronted wh-phrases | |
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| The functions of non-finite clauses | |
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| Subject and extraposed subject | |
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| Complement of A in AP | |
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| Complement of P in PP | |
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| Adverbial | |
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| Complement of N in NP | |
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| Modifier in NP | |
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| Complement of V | |
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| Discussion of in-text exercises | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Discussion of exercises | |
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| Further exercises | |
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| Languages, sentences and grammars | |
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| Languages | |
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| Describing languages | |
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| Describing infinite languages | |
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| Grammars | |
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| Grammars and sentence analysis | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Index | |