A comprehensive grammar of the English language / Randolph Quirk and 3 others.
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TextPublication details: India : Pearson Education Ltd. c2010Edition: Licensed EditionDescription: ix, 1779 pages : 24 cmISBN: 9788131733431Subject(s): ENGLISH LANGUAGE | ENGLISH -- GRAMMARLOC classification: PE 1106 .Q85 2010
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LRC - Annex | National University - Manila | English and Language Studies | General Circulation | GC PE 1106 .Q85 2010 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | c.1 | Available | NULIB000014063 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter1. The English Language -- Chapter2. A survey of English grammar -- Chapter3. Verbs and auxiliaries -- Chapter4. The semantics of the verb and phrases -- Chapter5. Nouns and determiners -- Chapter6. Pronouns and numerals -- Chapter7. Adjectives and adverbs -- Chapter8. The semantics and grammar of adverbials -- Chapter9. Prepositions and prepositional phrases -- Chapter10. The simple sentences -- Chapter11. Sentence types and discourse function -- Chapter12. Pro-forms and ellipsis -- Chapter13. Coordination -- Chapter14. The complex sentence -- Chapter15. Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses -- Chapter16. Complementation of verbs and adjectives -- Chapter17. The noun phrase -- Chapter18. Theme, focus and information processing -- Chapter19. From sentence to text.
With A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, we attempt something much more ambitious: a culmination of our joint work, which result in a grammar that is considerably larger and richer than GCE and hence superordinate to it.
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