Grammar for Teachers A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers

• Main Author: DeCapua, Andrea (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing Imprint: Springer 2017; ©20018, 2017
• Edition: Second Edition
• Series: Springer Texts in Education
• Subjects: Language and education; Learning; Instruction; Educational sociology
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Updated and revised with more examples and expanded discussions, this second edition continues the aim of providing teachers with a solid understanding of the use and function of grammatical structures in American English. The book avoids jargon and presents essential grammatical structures clearly...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 What Is Grammar?
• Chapter 2 Morphology: Words and Their Parts
• Chapter 3 The Noun Phrase
• Chapter 4 Adjectives and Adverbs
• Chapter 5 Overview of Verbs and Verb Phrases: The Heart of the Sentence
• Chapter 6 Time, Tense, and Aspect of Verbs
• Chapter 7 Modal Auxiliary Verbs and Related Structures
• Chapter 8 Basic Sentence Patterns and Major Variations
• Chapter 9 Compound Sentences and Introduction to Complex Sentences: Adverbial Clauses
• Chapter 10 Complex Sentences Continued: Relative Clauses
• Chapter 11 Complex Sentences Continued: Noun Clauses
• Chapter 12 Verbal Constructions
• Glossary
• Appendices.