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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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