Modern English Structures: Form, Function, and Position

✍ Scribed by Bernard O'Dwyer

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

'Modern English Structures' follows a structural approach in teaching basic English grammar. The book begins with a chapter on morphology, the basis on which word structures are formed and grammatical meaning conveyed; and then proceeds by identifying sentence constituents (words, phrases, and clauses) according to grammatical form, function,and position. Through form, sentence constituents are identified as belonging to various word classes; through grammatical function, the relationships of constituents to each other are analyzed; through grammatical position, constituents are identified as occupying specific places within sentences. The approach is hierarchical in that it proceeds serially with sentence constituents and builds up to the largest syntactic structure-the sentence.