A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

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A Student's Introduction to English Grammar This groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modem Standard English grammar is the ...

A Student's Introduction to English Grammar RODNEY HUDDLESTON Ullil'ersity of Queensland GEOFFREY K. PULLUM Ulliversity ()f Cali ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press Th ...

Contents Notational conventions page vi Preface vii 2 A rapid overview Introduction 3 Verbs, tense, aspect, and mood 4 Clause s ...

Notational conventions Abbreviations of grammatical terms Adj Adjective 0 ; Indirect Object AdjP Adjective Phrase P Predicator A ...

Preface This book is an introductory textbook on modern Standard English grammar, intended mainly for undergraduates, in English ...

viii Preface Knowing the grammar of your native language is an enormous help for anyone embarking on the study of another langua ...

Introduction I Standard English 2 Descriptive and prescriptive approaches to grammar 4 3 Grammatical terms and definitions 5 1 S ...

2 Chapter I Introduction its pronunciation or word stock: there is remarkably little dispute about what is gram­ matical (in com ...

§ 1 Standard English 3 In [ii] there are two differences between the standard and non-standard versions. First, ain 't is a well ...

4 Chapter I Introduction everyone can do. If you weren't raised speaking two dialects, you have to be some­ thing of an actor to ...

§3 Grammatical terms and definitions 5 choice between I and me (and corresponding forms of other pronouns): [ 3 ] Such common ex ...

6 Chapter I Introduction three different areas within the study of language. Two of them have to do with the grammatical form of ...

§3 Grammatical tenns and definitions 7 In [ii] we again have a contrast between past time in [a] and future time in Cb]. In [a] ...

8 Chapter 1 Introduction form simply by asking whether it indicates past time. At the language-particular level we need to inves ...

Exercises 9 The imperative [ib] has a different form of the verb, be as opposed to are in [ia]. (With other verbs the forms are ...

10 Chapter I Introduction v A witness who truthfully asserted I saw a host of yellow daffodils would have to answer No if asked ...

� rapid overview I Two kinds of sentence 12 2 Clause, word and phrase 12 3 Subject and predicate 13 4 Two theoretical distinctio ...

(^12) Chapter 2 A rapid overview grammatical description going back to the late sixteenth century. By the eighteenth century thi ...