Modern English Structures - Second Edition: Form, Function, and PositionModern English Structures is a clear and accessible text that follows a structural approach to teaching basic English grammar. The book is divided into three parts: what a sentence constituent is, what a sentence constituent does, and where a sentence constituent goes—Form, Function, and Position. The objective of the book is to bring students to a better understanding of sentence constituents and sentence structures, providing them with appropriate terminology to discuss these forms and relationships. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout. The accompanying Modern English Structures Workbook parallels the text and provides useful training both in memorization and in higher-order thinking skills. |
Contents
Preface | 11 |
ONE MORPHEMES | 27 |
FORM CLASS | 45 |
STRUCTURE CLASS | 77 |
FOUR PHRASES | 109 |
FIVE CLAUSES | 137 |
SIX MAJOR GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS | 149 |
SEVEN MINOR GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS | 173 |
CLAUSES | 195 |
NINE GRAMMATICAL POSITIONS | 217 |
TEN SENTENCES | 239 |
A Grammatical Terms Summary | 255 |
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Common terms and phrases
3RD PERSON SINGULAR ablaut absolute phrase action adjectival position ADJECTIVE CLAUSE MODIFYING adjective modifiers adverb complements adverb modifiers adverbial position ADVERBIAL POSITION/ADVERB affixes appositive base base/stem bound morphemes cn sj cohesive word groups conjunctions connector December 02 dependent clause determiners direct object express FIGURE finite verb following examples form class words free morpheme gerund grammatical function grammatical meaning grammatical positions head word identify inflectional suffixes inflections interrogative intransitive irregular verbs language lexical verb linking verbs modal MODIFYING SUBJECT nominal position NOMINAL POSITION/NOUN non-finite verbs non-restrictive noun clause noun phrase NP Sj VP NP VP objects of prepositions occur paradigm participle phrases past participle past tense PHRASE MODIFYING PHRASES are cohesive possessive prefixes prepositional phrase present participle PRESENT TENSE refer RELATIVE ADJECTIVE CLAUSE RELATIVE ADVERB CLAUSE relative pronouns second example sentence constituents sentence structure stem structure class words subjective complements superlative syntactic structure transitive verbs verb phrase York Times December لا