Oxford Guide English Grammar
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Key to symbols
Sentence and text
1 English grammar
2 The simple sentence
3 Statements, questions, imperatives and exclamations
4 Questions and answers
5 Leaving out and replacing words
6 Information and emphasis
7 Spoken English and written English
Verb forms
8 The verb phrase
9 Verb tenses and aspects
10 The future
11 Be, have and do
12 Modal verbs
13 The passive
Infinitive, gerund and participles
14 The infinitive
15 The gerund
16 Participles
The Noun phrase
17 Nouns and noun phrases
18 Agreement
19 The articles: a/an and the
20 Possessives and demonstratives
21 Quantifiers
22 Pronouns
23 Numbers and measurements
Adjectives, adverbs and prepositions
24 Adjectives
25 Adverbials
26 Comparison
27 Prepositions
28 Phrasal verbs and patterns with prepositions
Main clauses and sub clauses
29 Sentences with more than one clause
30 And, or, but, so etc
31 Adverbial clauses
32 Conditional clauses
33 Noun clauses
34 Direct and indirect speech
35 Relative clauses
Word forms
36 Word-building
37 Word endings: pronunciation and spelling
38 Irregular noun plurals
39 Irregular verb forms
Appendix
40 American English
Glossary
Index