PDF Free Download | Grammar for Teachers A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers by Andrea DeCapua

Contents of Grammar for Teachers eBook

• What Is Grammar?
• Section : Grammarians and Grammar
• Section : Language and Change
• Section : Linguists and Grammar
• Language Is Rule-Governed
• Section : Prescriptive Grammar and Descriptive Grammar
• Prescriptive Grammar
• Descriptive Grammar
• Summary
• Practice Activities
• Answer Key
• Morphology: Words and Their Parts
• Section : Word Classes
• Context and Function
• Parts of Speech or Lexical Categories
• Major Parts of Speech
• Section : Morphology
• Bound and Free Morphemes
• Derivational and Inflectional Morphemes
• Summary
• Practice Activities
• Answer Key
• The Noun Phrase
• Section : Identifying Nouns
• Semantic Clues
• Structural Clues
• Morphological Clues
• Section : Count, Non-Count, and Crossover Nouns
• Count Nouns
• Non-Count Nouns
• Crossover Nouns
• Section : Structure Words that Signal Nouns
• Noun Signals
• Section : Pronouns
• Types of Pronouns
• Summary
• Practice Activities
• Answer Key
• Adjectives and Adverbs
• Section : Adjectives
• Semantic Clues
• Morphological Clues
• Structural Clues
• Order of Adjectives
• Special Types of Adjectives
• Section : Adverbs
• Subclasses of Adverbs
• Practice Activities
• Answer Key
• Overview of Verbs and Verb Phrases: The Heart of the Sentence
• Section : Identifying Verbs
• Semantic Clues
• Morphological Clues
• Structural Clues
• Section : Main Verbs Versus Auxiliary Verbs
• The Primary Auxiliary Verbs Have, Be, Do
• Section : Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
• Transitive Verbs
• Intransitive Verbs
• Verbs that Are Transitive and Intransitive
• Linking Verbs
• Section : Verbs Followed by Gerunds and Infinitives
• Verb/Gerund Variations
• Section : Phrasal Verbs
• Phrasal Verbs Versus Verb + Preposition/Adverb
• Types of Phrasal Verbs
• Summary
• Practice Activities
• Answer Key
• Time, Tense, and Aspect of Verbs
• Section : Verbs and Inflections
• Time, Tense, and Aspect
• Section : Present
• Simple Present
• Present Progressive
• Section : Past
• Simple Past
• Past Progressive
• Section : Future
• Will
• Be Going To
• Present Progressive for Future
• Future Progressive
• Section : The Perfect
• Present Perfect
• Past Perfect
• Future Perfect
• Present Perfect Progressive, Past Perfect
• Progressive, and Future Perfect Progressive
• Summary
• Practice Activities
• Answer Key
• Modal Auxiliary Verbs and Related Structures
• Introduction
• Section : Meanings and Use
• Ability
• Permission and Polite Requests
• Possibility or Probability Present Time
• Possibility or Probability Past Time
• Necessity or Obligation
• Prohibition
• Advice or Suggestion
• Expectation
• Unfulfilled Expectation, Mistake
• Section : Would and the Conditional
• Would
• Will
• Would and the Conditional
• Summary
• Practice Activities
• Answer Key
• Basic Sentence Patterns and Major Variations
• Section : Types of Sentence Constituents
• Noun Phrases
• Prepositional Phrases
• Verb Phrases
• Adjective and Adverb Phrases
• Section : Questions
• Yes/No Questions
• Wh-Questions
• Section : The Passive
• The Passive and Tense
• The Passive Versus the Active
• Get
• Understanding Passive Use
• Section : Substitution
• Substitution and the First Auxiliary Rule
• Substitution and Inversion
• Summary
• Practice Activities
• Answer Key
• Compound Sentences and Introduction to Complex
• Sentences: Adverbial Clauses
• Section : Compound Sentences
• Clauses Versus Phrases
• Compound Sentences and Coordinators
• Transition Words or Phrases
• Sentence Position and Punctuation
• Section : Complex Sentences
• Complex Sentences and Multiple Subordinate
• Clauses
• Subordinate Clauses and Word Order
• Adverbial Clauses of Time
• Adverbial Clauses of Contrast
• Adverbial Clauses of Place
• Adverbial Clauses of Cause
• Adverbial Clauses of Result
• Adverbial Clause of Purpose
• Adverbial Clauses of Condition
• Adverbial Clauses of Manner
• Section : Reduced Adverbial Clauses
• Reducing Adverbial Clauses
• Summary
• Practice Activities
• Answer Key
• Complex Sentences Continued: Relative Clauses
• Section : Relative Clauses and Relative Pronouns
• Essential and Nonessential Relative Clauses
• Relative Pronouns as Subjects and Objects
• Omission of Relative Pronouns
• Building Longer Complex Clauses
• Section : Relative Adverbs
• Relative Pronouns Instead of Relative Adverbs
• Section : Reduced Relative Clauses
• Reducing Relative Clauses
• Reducing Passive Relative Clauses
• Summary
• Practice Activities
• Answer Key
• Complex Sentences Continued: Noun Clauses
• Section : Noun Clauses
• That Noun Clauses
• The Different Functions of That
• Noun Clauses Derived from Questions
• Section : Reported Speech
• Word Order in Reported Speech
• Changes Between Direct Speech and Reported
• Speech
• Other Patterns in Reported Speech
• Reported Speech as More Than a Mirror Image
• Summary
• Practice Activities
• Answer Key
• Verbal Constructions
• Section : Gerunds and Gerund Phrases
• Possessive Gerunds
• Section : Participles and Participial Phrases
• Types of Participles
• Sentence Position of Participial Phrases
• Functions of Participial Phrases
• Time in Participial Phrases
• Section : Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases
• Perfect Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases
• Sentence Patterns with Infinitive Phrases
• Base Verbs or “Bare Infinitives” and Causative Verbs