A Concise Grammar of Contemporary English |
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Contents
Sentence elements 12 Parts of speech 18 Stative and dynamic | 20 |
Auxiliaries 35 Tense and aspect 40 Mood | 51 |
Noun classes 59 Determiners 61 Reference and the articles | 67 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjective phrase adverb attributive boys cleft sentence co-occur common commonly concord conjoin conjuncts construction contrast coordination corresponding count nouns denoting direct object element ellipsis ellipted English equivalent example expressed finite focus foreign plural function gender genitive girl gradable head implied indefinite indicate indirect infinitive clause inflected informal intensifier intonation intransitive introduced John main clause meaning modal auxiliaries modified negation negative non-count non-finite clauses non-restrictive normally Note noun phrase occur participle clause passive past perfect aspect person phoned Mary phrasal verbs place adjuncts postmodifier preceding predication premodifier prepositional complement prepositional phrases prepositional verbs present pro-form pronoun Q-element reference relation relationship relative clauses restricted second appositive semantic sentence singular speech stative stress structure student subject complement subordinate clause suffix superordinate clause syntactic tense tion tive transitive verbs usually verb phrase verbless clauses words yes-no question
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Concise Grammar of Contemporary English |
| Authors | Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Mar 5, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0155129309, 9780155129306 |
| Length | 484 pages |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / General |
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