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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 | |