A Concise Grammar of Contemporary EnglishVarieties of english - Elements of grammar - The verb phrase - Nouns, pronouns, and the basic noun phrase - Adjectives and adverbs - Prepositions and prepositional phrases - The simple sentence - Adjunts, disjuncts, conjuncts - Coordination and apposition - Sentence connection - The complex setence - The verb and its complementation - The complex noun phrase - Focus, theme, and emphasis - Word formation - Stress, rhythm, and intonation - Punctuation. |
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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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addition adjectives adjuncts adverb allow alternative appear appositive attributive auxiliaries boys called clause common commonly comparative complement complex condition conjuncts construction contrast coordination corresponding denoting determiner direct object disjuncts element ellipsis English equivalent especially example expressed final focus frequently function genitive girl given hand head implied indefinite indicate indirect infinitive initial intensifiers introduced involve John leave less looked Mary meaning modified names negative non-finite normally Note noun phrase object occur operator participle passive past person play plural position possible preceding predication premodifier prepositional phrases present pro-form pronoun question reference relation relationship relative replaced respect restricted result semantic sense sentence singular sometimes speech stress structure student subordinate tion units usually verb write
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Concise Grammar of Contemporary English |
| Authors | Randolph Quirk, Director Survey of English Usage Sidney Greenbaum, 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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