A Student's Grammar of the English Language

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Description A Students Grammar of the English Language is a shorter andrevised version of A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, the widelyacclaimed definitive grammar of modern English on which the authorsworked in collaboration with Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik. Thestructure of the parent book has been preserved so that referenceto it can easily be made, but this version takes particular accountof the needs of students who require depth of treatment and alsoclear presentation with detailed exemplification. A StudentsGrammar of the English Language draws on the most recent research,including new findings not only in grammar but also in theneighbouring fields of semantics, pragmatics, and text linguistics.Discourse features are dealt with throughout, as well as being thetheme of a major chapter entitled: "From Sentence to Text". Theauthors are careful to point out those features of grammar whichdistinguish spoken from written, formal from informal, and Britishfrom American English. A Students Grammar of the English Languagewill be a standard work an indispensable text book for all thosewho need an advanced and authoritative description of contemporaryEnglish. For Sale in Indiansubcontinent only 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. Coordination. The Complex Sentence. Syntactic and Semantic Funcation of Subordinate Clauses. Complementation of Verbs and Adjective. The Noun Phrase. Theme, Focus, and Information Processing. From Sentence to Text.