... nglish Grammar SIDNEY GREENBAUM In memoriam OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0x2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford ... Grammar Summary What is grammar? (2.1-3) 2.1 Types of grammar books 23 2.2 Descriptive and prescriptive grammar 24 2.3 Theories of grammar 25 Chomsky and theoretical linguistics (2.4-6) 2.4 Grammar ... definitions, so we have many English grammars (or grammar books), which vary in their coverage and their accuracy The largest English dictionary is the scholarly twenty-volume OxfordEnglish Dictionary,...
... believe me See more in 9.7 - 9.8 2/1 1.1 Coordination Coordination = can be referred to by some grammarians as syndetic (with the presence of coordinators) and asyndetic (with the absence of coordinators)...
... wrong - Cs: The problem is that he refuses to speak in court - Appositive: The fact that he hates English makes it hard for him to study it - Cadj: I’m sure that things will improve 4/3 Nominal ... clauses Clauses of condition or concession Universal conditional-concessive clauses Indicate a free choice from among any number of conditions E.g No matter how hard he tried, he could never ... Comparison so that E.g I tiptoed into the room so as not to wake the baby up Reasontried to improve his English so that he could & Preference Proportion study abroad He or cause - has ‘putative’ meaning...
... whole) 10/3 Concords Notional Concord Nominal clause Collective noun None None of the students like Grammar None of the cheese is fresh 11/3 Concords Concord by Proximity Set phrases Existential...
... verbs: E.g.: The pen is lying on the table Let’s look at the examples • • His English has been improved Transitive His English has improved Intransitive Affected subject Let’s look at the examples ... mistaken (It seemed to me …) I liked the play (The play gave me pleasure) How can you say this in English? Em có nghe thấy gió nói không? Can you hear what the wind is whispering? The subject of...
... Classifications of English verbs Verbs classified according to Possibility of admitting progressive aspect = verbs that show the action or the change of status E.g.: She learns English He hit me She is English ... Classifications of English verbs Verbs classified according to Lexical verbs Functions of items Auxiliary verbs Primary Modal Marginal modal auxiliary 5/1 Classifications of English verbs Verbs ... of English verbs Verbs classified according to Functions of items Lexical verbs Auxiliary verbs Primary Modal • include: used to, dare, need Marginal modal auxiliary 8/1 Classifications of English...
... its 21 It 22 their 23 we/one 24 their 25 It 26 they 27 them 28 the 29 this/the 30 their E _English GrammarCourse Unit NOUN PHRASE (cont.) Issues NOUN PHRASE – Basic NP • Determiners – Complex...
... recurrently at information given earlier E.g The wine that France various places and times in the discourse produces E.g the theatre, the Sporadic reference cinema, the press, etc 2/10 2.2 Reference ... Substantive Adj customs Substantive Adj cattle physics (abstract) (concrete) abstract the true the poor freedom the ugly the blind 2/36 Grammatical categories of Ns Variables Regular plural Irregular...
... Issues Introduction to Grammar Morphemes and Words Ways of word formation Parts of speech Parts of a sentence Types of phrases, clauses, sentences 1/1 Introduction to GrammarGrammar In global sense ... structure rules, pronunciation rules, meaning of words/ sentences, and discourse organization rules 3/1 Grammar Introduction to Grammar • refers only to the formation of the word and sentence structures ... sentences 1/1 Introduction to GrammarGrammar In global sense In narrow sense 2/1 Introduction to GrammarGrammar In global sense • equals competence, a body of knowledge that a native speaker has about...
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... Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE OED TLS The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) The OxfordEnglish Dictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... American COD The Concise Oxford Dictionary (edn 7, Oxford, 1982) Hart's Rules Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers (edn 39, Oxford, 1983) MEU H W Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (edn ... Visage Software This document was created with FREE version of Easy PDF.Please visit http://www.visagesoft.com for more details The Oxford Guide to English Usage CONTENTS Table of Contents =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-...
... Locke’s A University Course in English Grammar, which broke new ground by offering to advanced students of English a comprehensive course, based on Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar It went beyond ... production in which even advanced foreign learners of English are often rather weak Second, the account of Englishgrammar offers benefits from the recognition that discourse is not a static product, ... of the work, which still bears his name and has been retitled as English Grammar: A University Course The new version of the grammar embodies three themes evident in Angela Downing’s research...