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| Why Study English Grammar? | |
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| Native Speakers and Grammar Study | |
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| Standard English | |
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| Judgments about English | |
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| The Legacy of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Reflections | |
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| How Do We Study English Grammar? | |
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| Why Do People Disagree about Grammar? | |
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| What Are the Common Elements of English? | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Nouns and Noun Phrases | |
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| What Are Nouns? | |
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| What Are Some Common Subcategories of Nouns? | |
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| What Makes Up a Noun Phrase? | |
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| Determiners | |
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| What Are the Functions of Noun Phrases? | |
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| Verbal Nouns and Noun Phrases | |
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| Compounds | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Practice Exercises | |
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| Verbs and Verb Phrases | |
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| What Are Verbs? | |
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| What about the Exceptions? | |
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| What Are Some Common Subcategories of Verbs? | |
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| What Is Verb Tense? | |
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| What Makes Up a Verb Phrase? | |
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| What Are Nonfinite Verb Phrases? | |
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| Compounds | |
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| What Is Subject-Verb Agreement? | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Practice Exercises | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| What Are Pronouns? | |
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| Personal Pronouns | |
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| Reflexive Pronouns | |
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| Reciprocal Pronouns | |
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| Demonstrative Pronouns | |
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| Relative Pronouns | |
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| Interrogative Pronouns | |
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| Universal and Indefinite Pronouns | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Practice Exercises | |
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| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| What Are Adjectives? | |
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| How Do Adjectives Modify Nouns? | |
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| What Are Adjective Phrases? | |
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| What Are Adverbs? | |
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| Is All Well and Good? | |
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| What Are Adverb Phrases? | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Practice Exercises | |
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| Prepositions and Particles | |
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| What Are Prepositions? | |
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| What Are Prepositional Phrases? | |
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| What Are Particles? | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Practice Exercises | |
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| Clause Type: Voice | |
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| What Is Grammatical Voice? | |
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| How Is the Passive Voice Formed? | |
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| How Are Grammatical Relations Determined in the Passive Voice? | |
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| Why Do We Need the Passive Voice? | |
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| What Is a Truncated Passive? | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Practice Exercises | |
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| Clause Type: Discourse Function | |
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| What Is Discourse Function? | |
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| Declaratives | |
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| Interrogatives | |
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| Imperatives | |
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| Exclamatives | |
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| Crossover Functions of Clause Types | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Practice Exercises | |
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| Clause Type: Affirmative vs | |
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| Negative | |
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| What Is Negativity in Grammar? | |
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| Verb Negation | |
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| Negation of Indefinites | |
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| Noun Negation | |
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| Adjective and Adverb Negation | |
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| Negation of Compounds | |
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| Partial Negation | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Practice Exercises | |
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| Combining Clauses into Sentences: Coordination | |
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| How Is a Sentence Different from a Clause? | |
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| Sentence Building Through Coordination | |
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| Clause Coordination and Ellipsis | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Practice Exercises | |
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| Combining Clauses into Sentences: Subordination | |
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| Sentence Building Through Subordination | |
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| Adverbial Clauses | |
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| Noun Clauses | |
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| Relative Clauses | |
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| Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses | |
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| Reduced Relative Clauses | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Practice Exercises | |
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| Why Study English Grammar? | |
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| (Once More!) Answers to Practice Exercises | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |