Systems In English Grammar

Author : Peter Antony Master
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Systems in English Grammar written by Peter Antony Master and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1996 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches teachers how to present grammar lessons to their students with confidence and clarity. Introduces future teachers of English to the major elements of English grammar in a systematic fashion, using step-by-step procedures, charts, diagrams, and exercises. Includes a complete answer key to exercises. Grammar teachers.

Author : Roswell Chamberlain Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Grammar on the Productive System written by Roswell Chamberlain Smith and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110199882
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of the English Tense System written by and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grammar of the English Tense System forms the first volume of a four-volume set, The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase. The other volumes, to appear over the next few years, will deal with mood and modality, aspect and voice. The book aims to provide a grammar of tense which can be used both as an advanced reference grammar (for example by MA-level or postgraduate students of English or linguistics) and as a scientific study which can act as a basis for and stimulus to further research. It provides not only a wealth of data but also a unique framework for the study of the English tense system, which achieves great predictive and explanatory power on the basis of a limited number of relatively simple rules. The framework provided allows for an analysis of the semantics of individual tenses which reflects the role of tenses not only in locating situations in time relative to speech time but also in relating situations in time relative to one another to form temporally coherent discourse. Attention is paid to the relations between tenses. On the one hand, we can identify sets of tenses linked to particular temporal areas such as the past or the future. These sets of tenses provide for the expression of a system of temporal relations in a stretch of discourse in which all the situations are located within the same temporal area. On the other hand, there are many contexts in which speakers might in theory choose between two or more tenses to locate a situation (e.g., when we choose between the past tense and the present perfect to locate a situation before speech time), and the book examines the difference that a choice of one or the other tense may make within a discourse context. The book moves from a detailed exploration of the meaning and use of individual tenses to a thorough analysis of the way in which tenses can be seen to function together as sets, and finally to a detailed examination of tenses in, and tenses interacting with, temporal adverbials. Original data is used frequently throughout the book to illustrate the theory discussed.

Author : Rachel Grenon
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
ISBN 13 : 9780802743589
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammar written by Rachel Grenon and published by Bloomsbury USA. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ancient scholarly curriculum, grammar formed part of the Trivium, with its sister sciences of logic and rhetoric. Logic asks: When is a sentence true? Rhetoric asks: Which is the right sentence? Grammar purely asks: When is a sentence correct? In Grammar, Rachel Grenon defines the rules governing the construction of words, phrases, sentences, and extended text or speech. Beginning with the rules behind ancient languages such as Sanskrit and Greek, she then focuses on how the rules of English have developed-from nouns and pronouns, verbs and adverbs, to tenses, the passive voice, questions, imperatives, and much more. With diagrams, engravings, and witty cartoon illustrations, this original take on a classic subject is essential for anyone interested in language.

Author : Talmy Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027220999
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Grammar written by Talmy Givón and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and literally, grammar like musical form must make sense. But for the instrument to serve its purpose, it must first exist; the rules must be real, they can be explicitly described and taught. This book is intended for both students and teachers, at college level, for both native and nonnative speakers. With the guidance of a teacher this book will serve as a thorough introduction to the grammar of English. Volume II continues with syntactic and communicative complexity: embedded clauses – verb complements, relative clauses; detransitive voice – passive, anti-passive, impersonal and middle voice, reflexive and reciprocal constructions; focus and topic constructions; nondeclarative speech acts. It closes with interclausal connectivity: conjoined and subordinate clauses, the grammar of discourse coherence, clause chains and thematic paragraphs.

Author : James Brown (Grammarian)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American System of English Grammar written by James Brown (Grammarian) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027273898
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Grammar written by T. Givón and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-07-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and literally, grammar like musical form must make sense. But for the instrument to serve its purpose, it must first exist; the rules must be real, they can be explicitly described and taught. This book is intended for both students and teachers, at college level, for both native and nonnative speakers. With the guidance of a teacher this book will serve as a thorough introduction to the grammar of English. Volume I begins with words and their meanings, then on to propositions and simple state or event clauses – participant roles, verb types, transitivity, subjects and objects. It then covers the grammatical sub systems commonly found in simple clauses: Verbal inflections, auxiliaries and the grammar of tense-aspect modality and negation; articles determiners, pronouns and the grammar of referential coherence; the variety of noun phrases and noun modifiers.

Author : James Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Third Book of Rational System of English Grammar written by James Brown and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vulf Plotkin
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1581129939
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language System of English written by Vulf Plotkin and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the English language as a dynamic system in the evolutionary process of radical typological restructuring, which has deeply affected its constituent subsystems - grammatical, lexical and phonic.

Author : James Brown (Grammarian)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Book of the Rational System of English Grammar ... written by James Brown (Grammarian) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: