A Student's Introduction to English Grammar

§3 Subject and predicate 13 More often, the subject and/or the predicate consist of more than one word while still having a noun ...

(^14) Chapter 2 A rapid overview In interrogative clauses it typically occupies a distinctive position just after the verb. The ...

16 Morphology: words and lexemes single function may be filled by expressions belonging to different categories, and expressions ...

(^16) Chapter 2 A rapid overview Not all lexemes show inflectional variation of this kind. For those that don't, the distinction ...

§S.2 Verbs 17 car, computer, etc. There are also innumerable abstract nouns such as absence, man­ liness,fact, idea, sensitivity ...

18 Chapter 2 A rapid overview fonns too, such as the one marked by the ending ·ing seen in They are working in Paris. (c) Functi ...

(c) Gradability and inflection §S.S Adverbs 19 The most central adjectives are gradable -that is, they denote properties that ca ...

20 Chapter 2 A rapid overview [12] ADJECTIVE ii ADVERB carefu l carefully certain certainly fo rtunate obvious rapid usual fo rt ...

5.7 Coordinators §5.8 Subordinators 21 The central members of the coordinator category are and, or, and but - in traditional gra ...

22 Chapter 2 A rapid overview 5.9 The concept of prototype The brief survey we've just given shows something important. Cate­ go ...

§6.3 Determiner 23 Complements are related more closely to the head than modifiers. In the clearest cases, complements are oblig ...

24 Chapter 2 A rapid overview 7 Canonical and non-canonical clauses There is a vast range of different clause structures, but we ...

§7.4 Coordination 25 Syntactically, the most important difference between imperatives and declara­ tives is that they usually co ...

26 Chapter 2 A rapid overview 7.5 Information packaging The grammar makes it possible, in many cases, to say essentially the sam ...

§8 Word structure 27 construction is virtually restricted to cases where the basic subject is a subordinate clause. It's the [a] ...

28 Chapter 2 A rapid overview v One of her daughters is training to be a pilot. The underlined expressions in the following exa ...

.:: Verbs, tense, aspect, and mood I Verb inflection 29 2 Finite and non-finite clauses 36 3 Auxiliary verbs 37 4 Perfective and ...

30 Chapter 3 Verbs, tense, aspect, and mood we give in [2] the paradigm for the verb walk, with sample sentences exemplifying ho ...

§ 1.1 The verb paradigm 31 time. For example, in the more complex construction It would be better if I took them to school next ...

32 Chapter 3 Verbs, tense, aspect, and mood [3] IMPERATIVE ii SUBJUNCTIVE iii INFINITIVAL {a. TO-INFINITIVAL b. BARE INFINITIVAL ...