Basic English Grammar, Second Edition (Full Student Textbook)

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This text was actually chosen by a second year student in my ESL class. I use a variety of texts with students, as well as a great deal of oral language exercises and discussion using pictures, classroom demonstrations, and so on. One thing I really like about this text are the oral practice exercises in each section. I think a student who has an English speaking friend, tutor, or teacher to practice these with him, check over completed practice, and to explain any lesson that the student questions would GREATLY benefit from this book. Teachers would find plenty of exercises to pull out and use to meet specific classroom practice needs. Students who expect to teach themselves to SPEAK English thru this--or any other text--will be disappointed. Reading and writing develop language skills, but we learn to speak by listening and speaking. BOOK COVER......Page 1 HALF TITLE......Page 2 TITLE......Page 4 COPYRIGHT......Page 5 DEDICATIONS......Page 6 CONTENTS......Page 8 FOREWORD......Page 12 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION......Page 14 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 16 INTRODUCTION......Page 18 TABLE OF NOTATIONAL SYMBOLS......Page 22 1. BASIC CONCEPTS......Page 24 MODULE 1. LANGUAGE AND MEANING......Page 26 MODULE 2. LINGUISTIC FORMS AND SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS......Page 32 MODULE 3. NEGATION AND EXPANSION......Page 44 2. THE SKELETON OF THE MESSAGE: INTRODUCTION TO CLAUSE STRUCTURE......Page 55 MODULE 4. SYNTACTIC ELEMENTS AND STRUCTURES OF THE CLAUSE......Page 57 MODULE 5. SUBJECT AND PREDICATOR......Page 65 MODULE 6. DIRECT, INDIRECT AND PREPOSITIONAL OBJECTS......Page 73 MODULE 7. SUBJECT AND OBJECT COMPLEMENTS......Page 87 MODULE 8. ADJUNCTS (A)......Page 92 3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MESSAGE: COMPLEMENTATION OF THE VERB......Page 104 MODULE 9. INTRANSITIVE AND COPULAR PATTERNS......Page 108 MODULE 10. TRANSITIVE PATTERNS......Page 113 MODULE 11. COMPLEMENTATION BY FINITE CLAUSES ......Page 123 MODULE 12. COMPLEMENTATION BY NON-FINITE CLAUSES......Page 131 4. CONCEPTUALISING PATTERNS OF EXPERIENCE: PROCESSES, PARTICIPANTS, CIRCUMSTANCES......Page 143 MODULE 13. CONCEPTUALISING EXPERIENCES EXPRESSEDAS SITUATION TYPES......Page 145 MODULE 14. MATERIAL PROCESSES OF DOING AND HAPPENING......Page 151 MODULE 15. CAUSATIVE PROCESSES......Page 155 MODULE 16. PROCESSES OF TRANSFER......Page 160 MODULE 17. CONCEPTUALISING WHAT WE THINK, PERCEIVE AND FEEL......Page 162 MODULE 18. RELATIONAL PROCESSES OF BEING AND BECOMING......Page 167 MODULE 19. PROCESSES OF SAYING, BEHAVING AND EXISTING......Page 174 MODULE 20. EXPRESSING ATTENDANT CIRCUMSTANCES......Page 178 MODULE 21. CONCEPTUALISING EXPERIENCES FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE: NOMINALISATION AND GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR......Page 183 5. INTERACTION BETWEEN SPEAKER AND HEARER: LINKING SPEECH ACTS AND GRAMMAR......Page 197 MODULE 22. SPEECH ACTS AND CLAUSE TYPES......Page 199 MODULE 23. THE DECLARATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE CLAUSE TYPES......Page 203 MODULE 24. THE EXCLAMATIVE AND IMPERATIVE CLAUSE TYPES......Page 213 MODULE 25. INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS, CLAUSE TYPES AND DISCOURSE FUNCTIONS......Page 220 MODULE 26. QUESTIONS, CLAUSE TYPES AND DISCOURSE FUNCTIONS......Page 224 MODULE 27. DIRECTIVES: GETTING PEOPLE TO CARRY OUT ACTIONS......Page 228 6. ORGANISING THE MESSAGE: THEMATIC AND INFORMATION STRUCTURES OF THE CLAUSE......Page 243 MODULE 28. THEME: THE POINT OF DEPARTURE OF THE MESSAGE......Page 245 MODULE 29. THE DISTRIBUTION AND FOCUS OF INFORMATION......Page 261 MODULE 30. THE INTERPLAY OF THEME-RHEME AND GIVEN-NEW ......Page 269 7. EXPANDING THE MESSAGE: CLAUSE COMBINATIONS......Page 293 MODULE 31. CLAUSE COMBINING......Page 295 MODULE 32. TYPES OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLAUSES......Page 300 MODULE 33. ELABORATING THE MESSAGE......Page 304 MODULE 34. EXTENDING THE MESSAGE......Page 308 MODULE 35. ENHANCING THE MESSAGE......Page 313 MODULE 36. REPORTING SPEECH AND THOUGHT......Page 322 8. TALKING ABOUT EVENTS: THE VERBAL GROUP......Page 338 MODULE 37. EXPRESSING OUR EXPERIENCE OF EVENTS......Page 340 MODULE 38. BASIC STRUCTURES OF THE VERBAL GROUP......Page 346 MODULE 39. ORGANISING OUR EXPERIENCE OF EVENTS......Page 354 MODULE 40. THE SEMANTICS OF PHRASAL VERBS......Page 359 9. VIEWPOINTS ON EVENTS: TENSE, ASPECT AND MODALITY......Page 373 MODULE 41. EXPRESSING LOCATION IN TIME THROUGH THE VERB: TENSE......Page 375 MODULE 42. PAST EVENTS AND PRESENT TIME CONNECTED: PERSENT PERFECT AND PAST PERFECT......Page 384 MODULE 43. SITUATION TYPES AND THE PROGRESSIVE ASPECT......Page 392 MODULE 44. EXPRESSING ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE EVENT: MODALITY......Page 402 10. TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS: THE NOMINAL GROUP......Page 422 MODULE 45. EXPRESSING OUR EXPERIENCE OF PEOPLE AND THINGS......Page 424 MODULE 46. REFERRING TO PEOPLE AND THINGS AS DEFINITE, INDEFINITE, GENERIC......Page 440 MODULE 47. SELECTING AND PARTICULARISING THE REFERENT: THE DETERMINER......Page 446 MODULE 48. DESCRIBING AND CLASSIFYING THE REFERENT: THE PRE-MODIDIER......Page 458 MODULE 49. IDENTIFYING AND ELABORATING THE REFERENT: THE POST-MODIFIER......Page 469 MODULE 50. NOUN COMPLEMENT CLAUSES......Page 480 11. DESCRIBING PERSONS, THINGS AND CIRCUMSTANCES: ADJECTIVAL AND ADVERBIAL GROUPS......Page 496 MODULE 51. ADJECTIVES AND THE ADJECTIVAL GROUP......Page 498 MODULE 52. DEGREES OF COMPARISON AND INTENSIFICATION......Page 507 MODULE 53. COMPLEMENTATION OF THE ADJECTIVE......Page 517 MODULE 54. ADVERBS AND THE ADVERBIAL GROUP......Page 525 MODULE 55. SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS OF ADVERBS AND ADVERBIAL GROUPS......Page 531 MODULE 56. MODIFICATION AND COMPLEMENTATION IN THE ADVERBIAL GROUP......Page 538 12. SPATIAL, TEMPORAL AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS: THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE......Page 552 MODULE 57. PREPOSITIONS AND THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE (PP)......Page 554 MODULE 58. SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS OF THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE......Page 563 MODULE 59. SEMANTIC FEATURES OF THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE......Page 569 MODULE 60. STRANDED PREPOSITIONS; DISCONTINUOUS PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES......Page 579 ANSWER KEY......Page 587 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 614 INDEX......Page 619