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Essentials of mastering English : a concise grammar /

Essentials of Mastering English: A Concise Grammar is both an ideal companion for undergraduate students wishing to acquire a high level of grammatical proficiency and a readily accessible reference work for teachers of English at all levels. It provides an introduction to basic grammatical terms an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bache, Carl, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000.
Colección:Stadt- und Regionalplanung.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Grammatical description: getting started
  • Grammar: syntax, morphology and semantics
  • The form and function distinction
  • Sentence functions introduced
  • Four form types
  • Word classes
  • Discontinuity
  • Basic sentence structures
  • More sentence functions and structures
  • Summary of sentence functions and structures
  • Sentence functions
  • The predicator
  • The subject
  • The direct object
  • The indirect object
  • The subject complement
  • The object complement
  • Adverbials
  • Predicates and predications
  • Complex forms
  • Groups
  • Types of subordination in groups
  • The preposition group
  • The compound unit
  • Types of coordination
  • Coordinating conjunctions
  • Clauses
  • The functions of subclauses
  • Markers of clausal subordination
  • Embedding and recursiveness
  • Clause types and utterance functions
  • Major types of clause
  • Communicative functions
  • The forms of communicative functions
  • Missing constituents, ellipsis and pro-forms
  • The zero convention
  • Types of ellipsis
  • Pro-forms
  • Vocatives, interjections and dislocation
  • Constituent Order
  • Functions of constituent order
  • Inversion
  • Subject-operator inversion
  • Full inversion
  • Constituent order in subclauses
  • Position and order of adverbials
  • Initial position
  • Medial position
  • Terminal position
  • Positions in nonfinite clauses
  • Factors governing the distribution of adverbials
  • Relative position of adverbials
  • Situations and participants
  • Actionality: dynamic versus stative situations.