Modern English A Practical Reference Guide

Name: Modern English A Practical Reference Guide
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ISBN: 9780135943182

ISBN-10: 0135943183

ISBN-13: 9780135943182

Edition: 2nd 1993

Authors: Marcella Frank

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This guide to English usage describes the word order, puncuation, rhetorical effect and special meanings of each grammatical structure. Emphasizing both formal and informal written English, it features a number of examples in natural language.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

David Constantine is a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. His translation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Lighter than Air (Bloodaxe) won the Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation in 2003.



Preface



Introduction to Parts of Speech



Nouns



Pronouns



Verbs



Auxiliaries



Adjectives



Articles



Adverbs



Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases



Conjunctions and Compounding



Sentences and Clauses



Introduction to Complex Syntactic Structures



Adverbial Clauses



Adjective Clauses



Noun Clauses



Participial Phrases



Gerund Phrases



Infinitive Phrases



Absolute Constructions



Abstract Noun Phrases



Appositive Noun and Adjective Phrases


App. Punctuation Related to Style and Sentence Structure


App. Spelling Rules


App. Glossary of Grammatical Terms


App. Irregular Verbs


Index