Oxford_Guide_to_English_Grammar
Contents
Introduction VII
Acknowledgements
VIII
Key to symbols
IX
Sentence and
text
1 English
grammar 1
2 The simple
sentence 6
3 Statements,
questions, imperatives and exclamations 15
4 Questions and
answers 25
5 Leaving out
and replacing words 42
6 Information
and emphasis 52
7 Spoken English
and written English 64
Verb forms
8 The verb
phrase 75
9 Verb tenses
and aspects 82
10 The future 95
11 Be, have and
do 104
12 Modal verbs
113
13 The passive
130
Infinitive,
gerund and participles
14 The
infinitive 144
15 The gerund
159
16 Participles
167
The noun phrase
17 Nouns and
noun phrases 175
18 Agreement 191
19 The articles:
a/an and the 198
20 Possessives
and demonstratives 213
21 Quantifiers
219
22 Pronouns 233
23 Numbers and
measurements 245
Adjectives,
adverbs and prepositions
24 Adjectives
251
25 Adverbials
260
26 Comparison
278
27 Prepositions
286
28 Phrasal verbs
and patterns with prepositions 302
Main clauses and
sub clauses
29 Sentences
with more than one clause 317
30 And, or,
but, so etc 323
31 Adverbial
clauses 327
32 Conditional
clauses 333
33 Noun clauses
341
34 Direct and
indirect speech 346
35 Relative
clauses 356
Word forms
36 Word-building
367
37 Word endings:
pronunciation and spelling 376
38 Irregular
noun plurals 380
39 Irregular
verb forms 382
Appendix
40 American
English 389
Glossary 397
Index 404
