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A University Course in English Grammar

By Angela Downing, Philip Locke

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About the Book

This comprehensive descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English as a Foreign Language. It is also suitable as background reading for course for literature and discourse studies, since grammatical usage is illustrated with authentic texts, many of them from literary sources.
Originally published by Prentice Hall in 1992, this text is now readily available world-wide from Routledge.
Key features include:
*chapters divided into modules of class-length material
*literary and other authentic texts to illustrate points of grammar
*clear chapter and module summaries enable efficient teacher preparation and student revision
*tasks for individual study at the end of each chapter
*answer key to tasks and comprehensive index.

Table of Contents

Preface Table of symbols and notational conventions Introduction Acknowledgements Our Thanks to ... 1 Basic concepts 2 The skeleton of the message: Introduction to clause structure 3 The development of the message: Complementation of the verb 4 Expressing patterns of experience: Processes, participants, circumstances 5 Interaction between speaker and hearer: Mood structures of the clause 6 Organising the message: Thematic and information structures of the clause 7 Expanding and projecting the message: The clause complex 8 Talking about events: The Verbal Group 9 Viewpoints on events: Tense, aspect and modality 10 Talking about 'things': The Nominal Group 11 Talking about Attributes: The Adjectival Group 12 How, where and when: The Adverbial Group 13 Spatial, temporal and other relationships Key of Selected Answers Index.