Basic English Grammar with Exercises

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Basic English Syntax with Exercises Mark Newson Dániel Pap Gabriella Tóth Krisztina Szécsényi Marianna Hordós Veronika Vincze ...

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Preface Linguists, it has to be admitted, are strange animals. They get very excited about things that the rest of the species s ...

Preface vi The target audience for the book is BA students, covering the introductory syntax level and going through to more adv ...

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Table of Contents Chapter 1 Grammatical Foundations: Words Table of Contents vii 1 Language, Grammar and Linguistic Theory 2 Wo ...

Chapter 1 Grammatical Foundations: Words 1 Language, Grammar and Linguistic Theory This book attempts to describe some of the ba ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words the speaker’s head to enable them to do this. As you can imagine, this is not always ...

Language, Grammar and Linguistic Theory (1) grammar models provides data I-language E-language defines So, a linguist goes out a ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words 2 Word Categories 2.1 The Lexicon The first assumption we will make is that one of th ...

Word Categories two cats (if you think about it this sentence might mean that anything between two and six cats got bitten, whic ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words things. While this may give us a useful rule of thumb to identifying the category of ...

Word Categories Although some of these may sound strange concepts, they are perfectly acceptable forms. The idea–ideas case is t ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words (13) idea ideas cat cats man men sheep sheep hippopotamus hippopotami The first two c ...

Word Categories noun in front of a verb. This rule then tells us that the expressions in (15) are grammatical and those in (16) ...

Chapter 1 - Grammatical Foundations: Words sentence starts with a word like obviously or not. It follows, then, that distributio ...