Larsen-Freeman, Diane,  1946- <br/><br/>
The Grammar Book :  Form, Meaning, and Use for English Language Teachers / 
Diane Larsen-Freeman, Marianne Celce-Murcia, with Jan Frodesen, Benjamin White, and Howard Williams. 
 - 3rd Ed. 
 - Boston, MA :  National Geographic Learning ;  2016. 
 - xi, 911 p. :  ill. ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>"The third edition of The Grammar Book introduces teachers and future teachers to English grammatical constructions. This highly acclaimed text, used both as a course book and as a grammar reference guide, is suitable for all teachers of English. What sets it apart from other grammar books is its unique pedagogical focus: It describes not only how each grammatical construction is formed, but also its meaning and its use. Grammar is a resource for making meaning in textually and socially appropriate ways." (Book Cover) CONTENTS: 1. Introduction 2. Grammatical terminology 3. Lexicogrammar 4. Copular Verbs and Subject-Verb Agreement 5. Word Order and the Phrase Structure Rules for the Subject of a Sentence 6. More Phrase Structure Rules: the Predicate of a Sentence 7. The Tense-Aspect System 8. Modal Auxiliaries and Related Phrasal Forms 9. The Tense-Aspect-Modality System in Discourse 10. Negation 11. Yes/No Questions 12. Imperatives 13. Wh-questions 14. Tag, Alternative, Exclamatory, and Rhetorical Questions 15. Articles 16. Reference and Possession 17. Partitives, Collectives, and Quantifiers 18. The Passive Voice 19. Sentences with Indirect Objects 20. Adjectives 21. Prepositions 22. Phrasal Verbs 23. Nonreferential Subjects: Ambient It and Existential There 24. Conjunction 25. Adverbials 26. Logical Connectors 27. Conditionals 28. Introduction to Relative Clauses27 29. More on Relative Clauses: Nonrestrictive and Relative Adverb Clauses 30. Focus and Emphasis 31. Complementation 32. Other Aspects of Complementation 33. Reported Speech and Writing 34. Degree-Comparatives and Equatives 35. Degre-Complements and Superlatives 36. Conclusion Suggested Answers to Chapter Exercises<br/> Indexes:  - Index of Names  - Index of Languages and Language Groups  - Index of Words, Phrases, and Affixes  - Index of Topics 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781111351861 (hbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.<br/>English language--Grammar.