Meaning-Centered Grammar - An Introductory Text - Craig Hancock
Verbs as adjectives, nouns and as heads of non-finite clauses
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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7.1 Introduction 7.2 Section exercise 7.3 Verb forms as nouns 7.4 Section exercise 7.5 Non-finite subordinate clauses 7.6 Participial clauses in NP roles (Participial clauses as adverbial; Participial clauses as restrictive and non-restrictive) 7.7 Infinitive clauses as adverbial (Infinitive clauses as adjectival; Infinitive clauses in NP roles) 7.8 Extraposed infinitives 7.9 Perception verbs and causative verbs 7.10 Infinitive clauses without to 7.11 Participial clauses as absolutes 7.12 Section exercise 7.13 Chapter practice