Analyzing the Grammar of English
 248 pp., 7 x 10 Paperback ISBN: 9781589011663 (158901166X) April 2007 LC: 2006031186 EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionTable of Contents Reviews |
Analyzing the Grammar of English
Third Edition
Short-listed for the 2008 Typographical Text Award, Large Non-Profit Publishers Category of the Washington Book Publishers Book and Design Effectiveness Awards
Analyzing the Grammar of English offers a descriptive analysis of the indispensable elements of English grammar. Designed to be covered in one semester, this textbook starts from scratch and takes nothing for granted beyond a reading and speaking knowledge of English. Extensively revised to function better in skills-building classes, it includes more interspersed exercises that promptly test what is taught, simplified and clarified explanations, greatly expanded and more diverse activities, and a new glossary of over 200 technical terms. Richard V. Teschner is a professor of languages and linguistics at the University of Texas-El Paso. He is coauthor (with M. Stanley Whitley) of the textbook Pronouncing English: A Stress-Based Approach with CD-ROM. Eston E. Evans is professor emeritus of ESL and German at Tennessee Tech University.
Reviews
"Teschner and Evans provide a text that is simply and clearly explained while at the same time presenting the full complexity of the essential structures of English. Students find the exercises useful, challenging, and even entertaining."—Rebecca Babcock, assistant professor of literature and language, University of Texas of the Permian Basin Table of Contents Introduction 1. Utterances, Sentences, Clauses, and Phrases The Most Important Parts of Speech Sounds: Phones, Phonemes, and Allophones Forms: Morphemes and Allomorphs /z/—A Highly Productive English Morpheme /d/—Another Highly Productive English Morpheme Problems with /d/ Note 2. Verbs, Tenses, Forms, and Functions Conjugating a Verb The Nine Morphological Patterns of Irregular Verbs Verb Tenses and Auxiliary Verbs: The Nonmodal Auxiliaries (Do, Be, Have) and the Modal Auxiliaries The Compound Tenses: Future and Conditional Verb Tenses' Meanings and Uses Notes 3. Basic Structures, Questions, Do-Insertion, Negation, Auxiliaries, Responses, Emphasis, Contraction The Five Basic Structures Two Different Types of Questions The Role of the First Auxiliary (aux) Nonmodal Auxiliaries Be/Do/Have Can also Be Used as Lexical Verbs Wh-Words as Subjects vs. Wh-Words as Objects Selection Questions Declarative Questions Echo Questions Tag Questions Invariant Tags Elliptical Responses Emphasis and Emphatic Structures Contractions: A Summing Up Note 4. Modals, Prepositional and Particle Verbs, Transitivity and Voice, and Conditionality Modals and Perimodals Two-Word Verbs: Prepositional Verbs vs. Particle Verbs Transitivity: Active Voice, Passive Voice Intransitive Verbs and "Voice" Real-World Use of the English Passive: Pragmatic Constraints and Agent-Phrase Addition GET Passives Conditionality 5. Some Components of the Noun Phrase: Forms and Functions Person and Number Gender Case Expressing Possession: Genitives and Partitives Partitive-Genitive Constructions Determiners, Common/Proper Nouns, and Mass/Count Nouns Mass Nouns and Count Nouns Mass-to-Count Shifts Dual-Function Nouns: Nouns That Are Both Mass and Count Pronouns Pro-Words: Pronoun-Like Words for Clauses, Phrases, Adjectives, and Adverbs Note 6. Adjectives and Relative Clauses Attributive and Predicate Adjectives: Identification and Syntax The Syntax of Prenominal Attributive Adjectives Adjectives and Adverbs: The Comparative and Superlative Forms Relative Clauses, Relative Pronouns, and Their Antecedents When to Use Who and When to Use Whom Deleting Relative Pronouns: Creating Gaps and the Process of Gapping The Twenty Types of Relative Clauses Restrictive and Nonrestrictive (Relative) Clauses Relative Pronoun Clauses with Present Participles/Gerunds and with Past Participles Notes 7. Adverbs, It and There Referentials and Non-Referentials, and Fronting Adverbs It as a Referential, It as a Nonreferential Adverb Referential There, Existence-Marking Nonreferential There Emphasis by Peak Stressing, Solo Fronting, or Cleft Fronting Note 8. Compound Sentences: Coordination, Subordination Compound Sentences Coordinate Sentences Subordinate Sentences Tenseless Complements The That-Clause The Infinitive Complement Infinitive Complement with Equi-Deletion Infinitive Complement with Raising to Object Gerund Complement Purpose Complements Miscellaneous Complementation Patterns Summary of All Clausal Complementation Patterns Appendix Glossary of Terms Index |
