English grammar / / Richard Hudson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963089603321
• Autore: Hudson Richard A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998
• ISBN: 981-4070-76-9; 1-134-68772-9; 1-280-03163-8; 0-203-01546-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (141 p.)
• Collana: Language workbooks
• Disciplina: 428.2
• Soggetti: English language - Grammar; English language - Composition and exercises
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Using this book; Acknowledgements; Overview; Word-classes: nouns and verbs; Noun expansions: heads, dependents and adjectives; Linking words: prepositions and coordinators; Subclassification: pronouns, determiners and other nouns; Verb expansions: subjects, objects, 'sharers' and adverbs; Verb chains: auxiliary and full verbs and finiteness; Fancy verb chains: to, that, not and clauses; Subordinate clause clues: wh-pronouns, prepositions and non-infinite verbs (again); Subordinate clause uses; Sentences and information: it, there, apposition and punctuation; Model analysis of a 100-word textApproaches to grammar; Model answers; References and further reading; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: English Grammar:* helps users to understand grammatical concepts * encourages the reader to practise applying newly discovered concepts to everyday texts* teaches students to analyze almost every word in any English text* provides teachers and students with a firm grounding in a system which they can both understand and apply.