Meaning-Centered Grammar - An Introductory Text - Craig Hancock
Elements of the simple clause
Meaning-Centered Grammar - An Introductory Text - Craig Hancock
Craig Hancock [+]
SUNY - Albany
Craig Hancock has taught English at the college level for almost three decades. He is the senior writing faculty for the nationally honored Educational Opportunity Program at the University at Albany, where he has sought to discover approaches to grammar compatible with process (meaning based) approaches to teaching writing. This text was developed and refined over five years in an introductory course in English grammar.
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3.1 Introduction 3.2 The elements of noun phrases (Nounds; Pronouns; Determiners; Adjectives) 3.3 Nouns as modifiers: compound nouns 3.4 Verb phrases 3.5 Adverb phrases 3.6 Prepositional phrases 3.7 Section exercise 3.8 A special problem in constituency: particle verbs 3.9 A brief look at compounding 3.10 Form, structure and function 3.11 Chapter practice