A student's grammar of the English language

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Greenbaum, Sidney (Author), Quirk, Randolph (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Harlow, England : Longman , 1990
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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 ellipses
  • Coordination
  • The complex sentence
  • Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses
  • Complementation of verbs and adjectives
  • The noun phrase
  • Theme, focus, and the formation processing
  • From sentence to text