Previous ed.: 2000.

Includes index.

"Grammar for English Language Teachers provides invaluable support to teachers in training and those with more experience. As well as clearly explaining and illustrating the grammar, it examines difficulties learners often encounter, and provides help and advice in planning lessons. It explores the complexity of grammatical choices in an accessible way, and raises awareness of how these differ from the 'rules of thumb' often presented to learners.

This edition contains new material which reflects the latest developments in linguistics and language teaching, including a chapter on 'Combining words', informed by lexico-grammar. It also includes insights and examples of language use from the Cambridge International Corpus. Increased cross-referencing and an extended index mean that the book can be easily used as a quick reference tool, as well as to explore major topics in depth.
Exercises using a range of authentic materials enable you to test grammar rules against real language use.
Analysis of real learner errors from the Cambridge Learner Corpus develops your ability to deal with common mistakes.
A section on researching language helps you to evaluate the way grammar is treated in published materials.
Chapter-by-chapter extension exercises to accompany the book appear at www.cambridge.org/elt/gelt." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

Thanks

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART A Words
Introduction to Part A
1. Nouns -- 2. Articles -- 3. Quantifiers -- 4. Adjectives -- 5. Adverbs -- 6. Comparatives and superlatives -- 7. Prepositions -- 8. Verbs (introduction) -- 9. Combining words

PART B More about verbs and related forms
Introduction to Part B
10. Multiword verbs and verbal expressions -- 11. Modal verbs -- 12. Infinitive and -ing forms of verbs -- 13. The present -- 14. The future -- 15. The past -- 16. The present perfect -- 17. used to and would -- 18. Reported and direct speech -- 19. Conditional sentences

PART C Sentence constituents and word order
Introduction to Part C
20. Sentence constituents: basic principles -- 21. Sentence constituents: major variants -- 22. Passive constructions -- 23. Discourse markers -- 24. Ellipsis and substitution

PART D Complex sentences
Introduction to Part D
25. Finite adverbial clauses -- 26. Noun clauses -- 27. Relative clauses -- 28. Non-finite clauses -- 29. Defining and non-defining clauses -- 30. Complex sentences: integrating the elements

PART D Researching language
Research activities

Phonemic symbols

Index