Here is the Table of Contents for Discovering English Grammar.
Topics are arranged in a practical learning sequence, beginning with simpler concepts and
building to concepts that are more complex.
To the Instructor
1 Introduction
Conscious and
Unconscious Knowledge
How Does the Grammar
Work?
This Book’s
Purpose
Why Study Grammar?
Summary
2 Describing a Sentences
Discovering the Parts
of Sentences
Labeled Brackets and
Boxes
Reed-Kellog Diagrams
Tree Diagrams
An Elementary Grammar
of English
3 Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives
Proper and Common Nouns
Transitive and
Intransitive Verbs
Simplifying the
Phrase-Structure Rules
Adjectives
A Further Note on
Meaning
Linking Verbs
The Parts of Speech
4 Prepositions and Personal Pronouns
Prepositions
Prepositional Phrases within Noun Phrases
A Case of Ambiguity
Recursive Prepositional Phrases
Personal Pronouns
A Further Word on
Inflections
Varieties of English
5 Coordinate Phrases and Complement Clauses
Coordination
Coordinate Noun Phrases
Another Case of Ambiguity
Other Conjoined Phrases
Coordinate Sentences
Complement Clauses
Sentential-Complement Clauses
Nominal-Complement Clauses
Adjectival-Complement Clauses
Classification of
Clauses
6 Determiners, Adverbs, and Other Modifiers
Determiners
Demonstratives and Quantifiers
Possessive Pronouns and Possessive Noun Phrases
Adverbials
Adverbs
Adverbials that Follow Linking Verbs
Degree Modifiers
Modifiers of Adjectives
Modifiers of Adverbs
Nominal Modifiers
Summary and Review:
Chapters 1-6
7 Transformational Rules: Altering Elements in a
Sentence
Particles
Moving the Particles
Optional and Obligatory
Rules
Our Goals—A Review
and Update
8 Three More Transformational Rules
Moving Adverbial
Phrases
Applying More Than One T-Rule in a Derivation
Imperative Sentences
Indirect Objects
Must Transformations
Apply in a Particular Order?
9 Pronouns: Another Analysis
A Personal-Pronoun
Transformation
Deriving Possessive
Pronouns
Reflexive Pronouns
English
Pronouns—An Inventory
Conditions for Applying
the Personal-Pronoun Transformation
An Order for Applying
Transformations—An Update
10 More Embedded Sentences: Adverbial Clauses and
Relative Clauses
Adverbial Clauses
Relative Clauses
The Relative Pronoun as Subject
The Relative Pronoun as Direct Object
The Relative Pronoun as the Object of a Preposition
Possessive Relative Clauses
Clauses with Relative Adverbs
Some Notes on Usage
11 Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
Restrictive and
Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
Accounting for
Nonrestrictive Clauses
Apposition
Restrictive and
Nonrestrictive Adjectival Phrases
Summary and Review:
Chapters 7-11
12 Verb Inflections
Present and Past Tenses
Modal Auxiliaries
Perfect and Progressive
Auxiliaries
13 Negatives and Questions
Negative Sentences
Negative Sentences with Auxiliary Verbs
Negatives of Sentences without Auxiliary Verbs
Questions
Yes/No Questions
Negative yes/no questions
Wh-Questions
14 The Passive Voice
Active and Passive
Voice
Deriving Passive
Sentences
Passive Sentences with Indefinite Agents
Passive Sentences with Indirect Objects
Summary and Review:
Chapter 12-14
15 Infinitives
Infinitive Verb Forms
Complement Infinitives
Infinitives with Raised Subjects
Infinitives with Subjects Preceded by "For"
Infinitives with Understood Subjects
Nominal and Adjectival Complements
The Auxiliary Category
in Infinitive Phrases
Adverbial Infinitives
Relative Infinitives
Extraposed Infinitives
Summary of Principal
Infinitive Patterns
A Note on Usage: Split
Infinitives
16 Gerunds, Participles, and Absolutes
Gerunds
Participles
Other Structures Derived from Relative Clauses
Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Participles
Participles in Other Positions
Absolutes
17 Abbreviating Sentences: Ellipsis and Pro-Forms
Ellipsis
Objective Complements
Ellipsis in Comparisons
A Closer Examination of Comparison
Pro-Forms
Determiner Pronouns
Other Pro-Forms
Retrospective
18 A Taste of Theoretical Syntax
Some Claims of
Syntactic Theory
19 Grammar in the Schools
A Brief History of
Grammar Instruction
Teaching Grammar Is Not
Teaching Reading and Writing
Studying Grammar Is
Valuable and Important
Grammar Instruction as a Means to Better Language Skills
Grammar Instruction for Its Own Sake
Methods of Teaching
Grammar
Instruction in Applied Grammar
Direct Instruction in Grammar
Index
