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
