DeCapua, Andrea

Grammar for teachers : a guide to American English for native and non-native speakers / Adnrea DeCapua - 2nd ed. - Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2017 - xvi, 439 p.

1. What is grammar?
2. Morphology: words and their parts
3. The noun phrase
4. Adjectives and adverbs
5. Overview of verbs and verb phrases: the heart of the sentence
6. Time, tense, and aspect of verbs
7. Modal auxiliary verbs and related structures
8. Basic sentence patterns and major variations
9. Compound sentences and introduction to complex sentences: adverbial clauses
10. Complex sentences continued: relative clauses
11. Complex sentences continued: noun clauses
12. Verbal construction



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English language--United States--Grammar Americanisms

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