English Grammar

<p><em>English Grammar</em>:</p><p>* helps users to understand grammatical concepts </p><p>* encourages the reader to practise applying newly discovered concepts to everyday texts</p><p>* teaches students to analyze almost every word in any English text</p><p>* provides teachers and students with a firm grounding in a system which they can both understand and apply.</p> <p>1. Word-classes: nouns and verbs 2. Noun expansions: heads, dependents and adjectives 3.Linking words: prepositions and coordinators 4.Subclassification: pronouns, determiners and other nouns 5. Verb expansions: subjects, objects, 'sharers' and adverbs 6. Verb chains: auxiliary and full verbs and finiteness 7. Fancy verb chains: <em>to , that, not </em>and clauses 8. Subordinate clause clues 9. Subordinate clause uses 10.Sentence and information: <em>it, there, </em>apposition and punctuation</p>