Introducing English Grammar Book

Preface
Introduction: The Glamour of Grammar
1.1. Purpose and Nature of Grammatical Description
1.2. Standard English and Variation
1.3. English Rules, OK?
1.4. Why Study English Grammar?
1.5. English in the Workplace
1.6. The Branches of Linguistics Exercises
The Structure of Sentences
2.1. Introduction
2.2. The Structure of Words
2.3. How Do We Know Sentences Have Structure?
2.4. Constituency Tests
2.5. Three Additional Tests
2.6. Nested Constituents
2.7. Representing Structure
2.8. Points to Remember Exercises
The Words of English
3.1. Introduction
3.2. The Meaning of Lexical Categories
3.3. Structural Criteria
3.4. Major Categories
3.5. The Minor Categories
3.6. Phrasal Categories and their Structure
3.7. Points to Remember Exercises
Functions Within the Clause
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The Predicate
4.3. The Subject
4.4. The Object
4.5. The Predicative Complement
4.6. The Adverbial
4.7. Trees
4.8. Points to Remember Exercises
Different Sentence Types
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Declaritives
5.3. Interrogatives
5.4. Imperatives
5.5. Exclamatives
5.6. Echoes
5.7. Trees
5.8. Points to Remember Exercises
The Verb Phrase
6.1. The Constituency of Verb Strings
6.2. Time and Tense
6.3. Lexical Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs
6.4. Auxiliary Verbs
6.5. Lexical Have, Be, and Do
6.7. Trees
6.8. Points to Remember Exercises
The Noun Phrase
7.1. How to Spot a Noun Phrase
7.2. Who's the Boss?
7.3. Determiners
7.4. Pre-Modifiers
7.5. Pre-Determiners
7.6. Post-Modifiers
7.7. Complements
7.8. Trees
7.9. Points to Remember Exercises
Clauses Within Clauses
8.1. Clauses
8.2. Finite Sub-Clauses
8.3. Non-Finite Clauses
8.4. Subjectless Clauses
8.5. Trees
8.6. Points to Remember Exercises
Beyond the Sentence
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Information Packaging
9.3. Discourse Strategies
9.4. Points to Remember Exercises
Grammar at Work
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Speech Versus Writing
10.3. E-Speak -Somewhere Between Speech and Writing
10.4. Occupational Varities
10.5. Points to Remember Exercises
English Worldwide
11.1. Introduction
11.2. New Englishes - Indian English
11.3. Other Englishes
11.4. Variation in the Native Englishes
11.5. Vernacular Universals
11.6. The Future of Standard English
11.7. Points to Remember Exercises