Understanding English Grammar: A Course Book for Chinese Learners of English

✍ Scribed by Tony T. N. Hung

• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Edition: Bilingual
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book is designed for students' learning on their own as well as in a classroom. Each chapter is accompanied by a separate 'students' notes', which the students can consult after working through all the data and exercises in each chapter, to check their own answers and to read further explanations on the grammatical points in question.

✦ Table of Contents

Understanding English Grammar - A Course Book for Chinese Learners of English
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. The Subject
2. Nouns and Noun Phrases
3. Tense and Finiteness
4. Auxiliary Verbs and Aspect
5. Transitivity and Passive Voice
6. Verb Complementation
7. Simple Sentences
8. Finite Subordinate Clauses
9. Non-finite Subordinate Clauses
10. Relative Clauses
Notes and Answer Key
Appendices
Writing Tasks
Proof-reading Exercises
Diagnostic Test
Bibliography