English Sentence Analysis: An Introductory Course

✍ Scribed by Marjolijn Verspoor

• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This title presents an introductory 10-week course for students of English language and linguistics. It aims to give students proficiency in English analysis at sentence, clause and phrase level and have an understanding of the traditional terms and concepts of English syntax. The course book presents exercises with quotations and excerpts from English, American and Australian literature and pop songs. The practice programme contains over 800 exercises, over 700 quotations and has structured chapters with introductions and summaries to each.

✦ Table of Contents

Title page......Page 4
LCC page......Page 5
Installing the Practice Program......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
List of tables......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 15
1. Sentences Communicative functions and typical patterns......Page 17
2. Sentences Simple, compound and complex......Page 34
3. Verbs I......Page 47
4. Verbs II......Page 65
5. Word classes......Page 87
6. Phrases......Page 119
7. Sentence constituents realized as clauses......Page 152
8. How to analyze sentences at all levels......Page 172
Key to the exercises......Page 204
Users' Guide to the Practice Program......Page 235
Index......Page 243

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Грамматика / English Grammar;Синтаксис английского языка / English Syntax;