TY  - BOOK
AU  - Larsen-Freeman, Diane
AU  - Murcia, Marianne Celce 
TI  - The grammar book:: Form, meaning, and use for english language teachers 
SN  - 9781111351861
AV  - PE 1128 .G653 2016 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Boston, Massachusetts
PB  - National Geographic Learning
KW  - ENGLISH LANGUAGE
N1  - Includes index; Grammatical terminology -- Lexicogrammar -- Copular verbs and subject-verb agreement -- Word order and the phrase structure rules for the subject of a sentence -- More phrase structure rules : the predicate of a sentence -- The tense-aspect system -- Modal auxiliaries and related phrasal forms -- The tense-aspect-modality system in discourse -- Negation -- Yes/No questions -- Imperatives -- Why-questions -- Tag, alternative, exclamatory, and rhetorical questions -- Articles -- Reference and possession -- Partitives, collectives, and quantifiers -- The passive voice -- Sentences with indirect objects -- Adjectives --Prepositions -- Phrasal verbs -- Nonreferential subjects : ambient It and existential There -- Conjunction -- Adverbials -- Logical connectors -- Conditionals -- Introduction to relative clauses -- More on relative clauses : nonrestrictive and relative adverb clauses -- Focus and emphasis -- Complementation -- Other aspects of complementation -- Reported speech and writing -- Degree-comparatives and equatives -- Degree complements and superlatives
N2  - The Grammar Book introduces teachers and future teachers to English grammatical constructions. This highly acclaimed text, used both as a course book and as a grammar reference guide, is suitable for all teachers of English. What sets it apart from other grammar books is its unique pedagogical focus: It describes not only how each grammatical construction is formed, but also its meaning and its use. Grammar is seen to be a resource for making meaning in textually and socially appropriate ways
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