English grammar : a university course /
Downing, Angela.
English grammar : a university course / Angela Downing. - Third edition. - London : Routledge, 2015 - xix, 529 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-512) and index.
Basic concepts --The skeleton of the message : introduction to clause structure -- The development of the message: complementation of the verb --Interaction between speaker and hearer; linking speech acts and grammar -- conceptualising patterns of experience: processes, participants,circumstances -- Organising the message: thematic and information structure if the clause -- Combining clauses into sentences -- Talking about events: the verbal group -- Viewpoints on events: tense, aspect and modality -- Talking about people and things: the nominal group -- Describing persons, things and circumstances; adjectival and adverbial groups -- Spatial,temporal and other relations -- Describing persons.things and circumstances :adjectival and adverbial groups --Spatial , temporal and other relationships: the prepositional phrase.
9780415732673 (hardback) 9780415732680 (paperback)
2014024429
English language--Grammar.
English language--Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc.
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
PE1112 / .D68 2015
428.2
English grammar : a university course / Angela Downing. - Third edition. - London : Routledge, 2015 - xix, 529 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-512) and index.
Basic concepts --The skeleton of the message : introduction to clause structure -- The development of the message: complementation of the verb --Interaction between speaker and hearer; linking speech acts and grammar -- conceptualising patterns of experience: processes, participants,circumstances -- Organising the message: thematic and information structure if the clause -- Combining clauses into sentences -- Talking about events: the verbal group -- Viewpoints on events: tense, aspect and modality -- Talking about people and things: the nominal group -- Describing persons, things and circumstances; adjectival and adverbial groups -- Spatial,temporal and other relations -- Describing persons.things and circumstances :adjectival and adverbial groups --Spatial , temporal and other relationships: the prepositional phrase.
9780415732673 (hardback) 9780415732680 (paperback)
2014024429
English language--Grammar.
English language--Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc.
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
PE1112 / .D68 2015
428.2