English Grammar An Outline

Name: English Grammar An Outline
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ISBN: 9780521311526

ISBN-10: 0521311527

ISBN-13: 9780521311526

Edition: 1988

Authors: Rodney Huddleston

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This elementary textbook provides a succinct step-by-step account of all the most important and central English construction and categories. Rodney Huddleston's earlier work,An Introduction to the Grammar of English, was praised by reviewers for its clarity, and that is a particular strength of this new textbook as well. The book draws on descriptive and theoretical advances made in modern linguistics, but any significant departures from traditional grammar are pointed out. An important feature of the book is that it explains the major grammatical categories at both a language-particular level (specifically for English) and a general level, so that it could be used as a concise reference…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/16/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




Preliminaries



The parts of speech: a preliminary outline



Verbs



The structure of kernel clauses



Tense, aspect and modality



Nouns and noun phrases



Adjectives, determinatives and numerals



Adverbs and prepositions



Clause type



Negation



The subordination of clauses



Thematic systems of the clause



Coordination