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1 An Introduction to the Study of English Grammar
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1.1 Teaching objectives
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1.2 General requirements
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1.3 What is grammar ?
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1.4 Three related theories
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1.5 Prescriptive or descriptive?
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1.6 Why, what and how to study?
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1.7 Features of modern English Grammar
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2 Grammatical Hierachy
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2.1 Morphemes
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2.2 Words
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2.3 Phrases
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2.4 Clauses
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2.5 Sentences
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2.6 Text
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3 Word-formation
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3.1 Affixation
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3.2 Composition
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3.3 Concersion
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3.4 Blending
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3.5 Backformation
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3.6 Shortening
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3.7 Acronym
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4 Nouns, Pronouns and Number
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4.1 Noun classes
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4.2 Pronouns
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4.3 Number
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4.4 Unit nouns
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5 Determiners and Genitives
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5.1 Determiners
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5.2 Genitives
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6 Tense and Aspect
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6.1 Tense
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6.2 Aspect
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6.3 Future
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7 Voice and Mood
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7.1 Passive voice
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7.2 Subjunctive mood
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8 Modal Auxiliaries
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9 Non-finite Verbs
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9.1 Infinitive
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9.2 –ing participle
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9.3 –ed participle
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9.4 Dangling particple
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10 Adjective Phrases and Comparison
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10.1 Syntactic features of adjectives
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10.2 Semantic classification of adjectives
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10.3 Ordering of premodifying adjectives
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10.4 Comparison
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11 Prepositions
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11.1 Forms of prepositions
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11.2 Meanings of prepositions
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11.3 Collocation of prepositions with verbs, adjectives and nouns
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12 Relative Clauses
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12.1 Restrictiveness and non-restrictiveness
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12.2 Antecedent
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12.3 Choice of relative pronouns and relative adverbs
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12.4 Double relative clauses
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13 Concord
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14 Coordination and Subordination
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14.1 Coordination
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14.2 Subordination
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15 Clause Structures, Sentence Types and Discourse Functions