Includes a glossary and an answer key.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Why Do Teachers of English Have to Know Grammar? -- What is Grammar? -- Grammar Rules in English -- Factors Affecting Grammatical Choices -- The Organization of this Book -- Chapter 2 Grammatical Terms -- Constituent Structure -- Phrases -- Noun Phrases -- Verb Phrases -- Clauses -- Chapter 3 Teaching Grammar -- Why Teach Grammar at All? -- Explicit vs. Implicit Instruction -- Approaches to Teaching Grammar -- Classroom Applications -- Grammatical Errors -- Making Your Teaching Effective -- Chapter 4 Questions -- Yes/No Questions -- Tag Questions -- Wh- Questions -- Other Types of Yes/No and Wh- Questions -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Questions -- Suggestions for Teaching Questions -- Chapter 5 Negation -- Two Forms of Negation -- Verbal Negation -- Nonverbal Negation -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Negation -- Suggestions for Teaching Negation -- Chapter 6 Imperative Sentences -- Forms of Imperatives -- The Meanings of Imperatives -- Imperatives with a Visible You Subject -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Imperatives -- Suggestions for Teaching Imperatives -- Chapter 7 Nonreferential It and There -- Nonreferential It -- Nonreferential There -- Nonreferential There in Discourse -- Additional Facts about Nonreferential There -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Nonreferential It and There -- Suggestions for Teaching Nonreferential It and There -- Chapter 8 Prepositions -- Positions of Occurrence -- The Meanings of Prepositions -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Prepositions -- Suggestions for Teaching Prepositions -- Chapter 9 Multiword Verbs -- Phrasal Verbs -- Prepositional Verbs -- Phrasal Prepositional Verbs -- The Use of Multiword Verbs -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Multiword Verbs -- Suggestions for Teaching Multiword Verbs -- Chapter 10 Determiners -- Determiners and Their Order of Appearance -- Types of Determiners -- Possessive Determiners -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Determiners -- Suggestions for Teaching Determiners -- Chapter 11 Articles -- Types of Articles -- The Occurrence of Articles -- Using Articles -- Additional Facts About the Definite Article -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Articles -- Suggestions for Teaching Articles -- Chapter 12 Adjectives and Adverbs -- Characteristics of Adjectives -- Positions of Adjectives -- Adjective Phrases -- Characteristics of Adverbs -- Positions of Adverbs -- Additional Facts About Adverbs -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Adjectives and Adverbs -- Suggestions for Teaching Adjectives and Adverbs -- Chapter 13 Pronouns -- Anaphora and Personal Pronouns -- Reflexive Pronouns -- Reciprocal Pronouns -- Possessive Pronouns -- Indefinite Pronouns -- Pronouns and Agreement -- Demonstrative Pronouns -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Pronouns -- Suggestions for Teaching Pronouns -- Chapter 14 Modal Verbs -- Characteristics of Modals -- Types of Modals -- Pure Modals of Ability, Permission and Possibility -- Pure Modals of Advice and Necessity -- Marginal Modals and Semimodals of Advice and Necessity -- Pure Modals and Semimodals for Expressing Future Time -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Modals -- Suggestions for Teaching Modals -- Chapter 15 Indirect Objects -- Sentences with Indirect Objects: Two Patterns -- Sentences with Indirect Objects in Discourse -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Indirect Objects -- Suggestions for Teaching Modals -- Chapter 16 Tense and Aspect -- Basic Concepts: Tense and Aspect -- Tenses in English Language Teaching -- The Simple Tenses -- Expressing Future Time -- Progressive Aspect -- Perfect Aspect -- Perfect and Progressive Aspects -- Sequence of Tense Rules -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Tense and Aspect -- Suggestions for Teaching Tense and Aspect -- Chapter 17 Passive Sentences -- Forming Passive Sentences -- Using Passive Sentences -- Constraints on Forming Passive Sentences -- Passive Look-Alikes -- Other Types of Passive Sentences -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Passive Sentences -- Suggestions for Teaching Passive Sentences -- Chapter 18 Relative Clauses -- Form and Function -- Restrictive Relative Clauses -- Position and Reduction of Restrictive Relative Clauses -- Other Types of Restrictive Relative Clauses -- Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Relative Clauses -- Suggestions for Teaching Relative Clauses -- Chapter 19 Conditional Sentences -- The Form of Conditionals -- Real Conditionals -- Unreal Conditionals -- Additional Facts About Conditional Sentences -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Conditional Sentences -- Suggestions for Teaching Conditional Sentences -- Chapter 20 Subject Clauses and Related Structures -- Types of Subject Clauses -- Use of Subject Clauses in Discourse -- Movement of Subject Clauses -- Related Structures with Non Phrase Subjects -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Subject Clauses and Related Structures -- Suggestions for Teaching Subject Clauses and Related Structures -- Chapter 21 Complements -- That Complements -- Infinitive Complements -- Gerund Complements -- Verbs That Take Both Gerund and Infinitive Complements -- Verbs That Take Both Gerund and Bare Infinitive Complements -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Complements -- Suggestions for Teaching Complements -- Chapter 22 Focus Structures -- Form of Cleft Sentences -- Uses of Cleft Sentences -- Fronting -- Inversions -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Focus Structures -- Suggestions for Teaching Focus Structures -- Chapter 23 Adverbial Subordinate Clauses -- Adverbial Subordinate Clauses with Subordinators -- Free Adjuncts -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Adverbial Subordinate Clauses -- Suggestions for Teaching Adverbial Subordinate Clauses and Free Adjuncts -- Chapter 24 Comparatives and Superlatives -- Types of Comparisons -- Comparative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs -- The Form of Comparative Sentences -- Superlative Forms -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Comparatives and Superlatives -- Suggestions for Teaching Comparatives and Superlatives -- Chapter 25 Coordination -- Single-word Coordinators -- Multiword Coordinators -- Shortening Sentences That Involve Coordination -- Additional Facts About Clausal Coordination -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Coordination -- Suggestions for Teaching Coordination -- Chapter 26 Discourse Connectors and Discourse Markers -- Discourse Connectors -- Discourse Markers -- Problems That ESL/EFL Students Have With Discourse Connectors and Discourse Markers -- Suggestions for Teaching Discourse Connectors and Discourse Markers -- Appendix A Common Multiword Verbs -- Appendix B Adjective Phrases -- Appendix C Verbs That Take Indirect Objects

"The Teacher's Grammar of English is a comprehensive resource text designed to help ESL/EFL teachers understand and teach American English grammar. The Teacher's Grammar of English is a comprehensive resource text designed to help ESL/EFL teachers and teachers-in-training understand and teach American English grammar. In addition to complete, up-to-date coverage on form, meaning, and usage, each chapter includes practical suggestions for teaching, as well as a unique section that analyzes common errors made by learners from different first-language backgrounds, based on current research in second-language acquisition. Review exercises throughout each chapter make the book an ideal text for a course on English grammar. An answer key is included." (Publisher's Description)