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| Introduction to the reader |
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1 Everyone knows what grammar is don't they? |
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What grammar is (and what it isn't) |
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Traffic lights and sunrises |
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Where do the conventions come from? |
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Prescriptions for the best medicine |
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Grammatical standard-bearers |
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This book: What it offers and what it doesn't |
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What else is in the chapters? |
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2 From words to sentences |
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22 | (1) |
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Different types of morphemes |
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Morphemes and words: Building the system |
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How do words Jit into grammar? |
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Who does what? Participants and processes |
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Clauses: Different shapes, different meanings |
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What sort of mood are you in? |
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Clauses: Who's doing what, where, when and how? |
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A peaceful agreement: Concord |
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Adverbials: Mobility rules! |
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Are you running a business? Or just running? |
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Let's hear your voice: Active and passive |
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Clauses joining forces: Building sentences |
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Joining up 1 Three little words |
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Joining up 2 Subordinate clauses |
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Taking care of the relatives |
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Relative clauses: Common difficulties |
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Who knows what? Who said what? Reported clauses |
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A place for everything: Word-order |
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Sometimes at the beginning? Or at the end maybe? |
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This section you must read |
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Is there life beyond the sentence? |
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Bigger links mean bigger chains |
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Taking an axe to the sentence: Clefts |
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52 | (3) |
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How much coffee makes a coffee? |
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Verbs: Being, doing, happening |
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Who does what and to whom? |
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Main verbs, auxiliaries and modals |
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Auxiliary `be': Marking aspect |
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Auxiliary `have': Marking aspect |
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Auxiliary `be': Marking voice |
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Aspect and voice: Using the tools together |
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Auxiliary `do': Yes or no? |
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Auxiliary `do' for emphasis |
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Modal verbs: What's true, what's right |
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That could be true to a degree |
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`You must come to dinner sometime!' |
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We use small verbs as tag verbs, don't we or do we? |
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Might I ask you a question? |
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How long is a piece of string? |
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Colouring in the world: Adjectives and adverbs |
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What's it like and how did it go? |
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Adjectives: Telling it like it is |
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4 The grammar toolbox continued |
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Small words get everywhere |
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77 | (1) |
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Me and my sister: Subject and object pronouns |
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Reflexive pronouns: Grammatical selfies |
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Each other and one another |
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What it's all about: Clefts |
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81 | (1) |
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The ones which matter: Relative pronouns |
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Interrogative pronouns: What are they for? |
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Demonstrative pronouns: This is important, that's not |
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84 | (2) |
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Articles: Where's the cat? |
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Interrogative determiners |
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Conjunctions: Getting it together |
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91 | (1) |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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Prepositions: Should we leave them stranded? |
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94 | (1) |
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What about all those other small words? |
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96 | (1) |
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Putting their thinking caps on |
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99 | (1) |
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It stands to reason: Logic and rules |
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100 | (2) |
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102 | (3) |
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Noam Chomsky and his grammar |
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105 | (1) |
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105 | (2) |
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107 | (2) |
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From the depths to the surface |
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109 | (1) |
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Bearing everything in mind: Cognitive grammar |
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110 | (1) |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (2) |
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113 | (1) |
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Out of the mind: Neo-Firthians |
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115 | (1) |
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Conclusion: Theory and theories |
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120 | (3) |
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6 Word of mouth: Grammar in action |
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123 | (22) |
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Speaking and writing: A grammar for every occasion |
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126 | (1) |
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You thinking what I'm thinking? |
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126 | (2) |
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This book, you never know what it's going to say next |
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128 | (1) |
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Pronouns, they work hard, they do |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (3) |
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Taking chunks out of the language |
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133 | (1) |
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We're beginning to see a pattern here |
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`I see him yesterday': Dialect grammars |
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136 | (3) |
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English grammar around the world |
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Listen up and check this out! |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (2) |
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7 Grammar policy, grammar politics and grammar police |
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145 | (23) |
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145 | (2) |
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147 | (1) |
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What did traditional grammar look like? |
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Policing the grammar: Terminology |
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150 | (3) |
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153 | (1) |
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Australia: Whole language or bits and pieces? |
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154 | (1) |
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The UK: From grammar to comprehensive |
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155 | (2) |
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157 | (1) |
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From balance to moral panic |
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160 | (3) |
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163 | (2) |
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8 Grammar in the public eye |
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The grammatical landscape |
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168 | (1) |
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Putting a (full) stop to punctuation |
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170 | (1) |
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170 | (1) |
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The rise and fall of the semi-colon |
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172 | (2) |
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Endangered species? The apostrophe |
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174 | (2) |
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Sound-spelling grammatical confusions |
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176 | (2) |
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Pronouns: Not so closed after all? |
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178 | (2) |
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Adverbials: Why do people get affronted? |
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180 | (1) |
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181 | (4) |
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The linguistic landscape: Being creative with grammar |
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| Conclusion |
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186 | (2) |
| Glossary of grammar terms |
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| References |
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