Student's Grammar of the English Language, A. New Edition
Published on 30. July 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-0-582-05971-9 (ISBN)
Description
Discourse features are dealt with throughout, as well as being the theme of a major chapter entitled form 'sentence to text'.
The authors are careful to point out those features of grammar which distinguish spoken from written, formal from informal, and British form American English.
The authors are careful to point out those features of grammar which distinguish spoken from written, formal from informal, and British form American English.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
ELT/ESL
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
654 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-05971-9 (9780582059719)
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Previous edition
Sidney Greenbaum | Randolph Quirk
A Student's Grammar of the English Language
Book
07/1990
Longman
€32.87
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Content
The English language; a general framework; verbs and auxiliaries; the semantics of the verb phrase; nouns and determiners; pronouns; adjectives and adverbs; the semantics and grammar of adverbials; prepositions and prepositional phrases; the simple sentence; sentence types and discourse functions; pro-forms and ellipsis; co-ordination; the complex sentence; syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses; complementation of verbs and adjectives; the noun phrase; theme, focus and information processing; from sentences to text.