COBUILD English Grammar

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• Publisher: Collins Cobuild
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9780008213145
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This new edition of the Collins COBUILD English Grammar is a modern, global and learner-focussed grammar reference, aimed at learners and teachers of English.

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Chapter 1

Referring to people and things: nouns, pronouns, and determiners

1.1–12	Introduction to the noun phrase
1.13–92	Identifying people and things: nouns
1.15–22	Things that can be counted: countable nouns
1.23–33	Things not usually counted: uncountable nouns
1.34–40	When there is only one of something: singular nouns
1.41–46	Referring to more than one thing: plural nouns
1.47–51	Referring to groups: collective nouns
1.52–58	Referring to people and things by name: proper nouns
1.59–65	Nouns that are rarely used alone
1.66–72	Adjectives used as nouns: the poor, the impossible
1.73–76	Nouns referring to males or females
1.77–82	Referring to activities and processes: -ing nouns
1.83–92	Compound nouns: car park, mother-in-law, breakdown
1.93–161	Talking about people and things without naming them: pronouns
1.95–106	Talking about people and things: personal pronouns
1.107–109	Talking about possession: possessive pronouns
1.110–118	Referring back to the subject: reflexive pronouns
1.119–123	People in general: generic pronouns
1.124–127	Referring to a particular person or thing: this, that, these and those
1.128–141	Referring to people and things in a non-specific way: someone, anyone, everyone, etc.
1.142–145	Showing that people do the same thing: each other and one another
1.146–150	Joining clauses together: relative pronouns
1.151–153	Asking questions: interrogative pronouns
1.154–161	Other pronouns
1.162–251	Definite and indefinite determiners
1.163–183	Using the definite determiner the
1.184–193	Definite determiners: using this, that, these, and those
1.194–210	Possessive determiners: my, your, their, etc.
1.211–222	The possessive form: apostrophe s (’s)
1.223–235	Indefinite determiners: all, some, many, etc.
1.236–251	Other indefinite determiners

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• About Cobuild
• Contents
• Introduction
• How to use this Grammar
• Glossary of grammatical terms
• Chapter 1: Referring to people and things
• Chapter 2: Giving information about people and things
• Chapter 3: Types of verb
• Chapter 4: Expressing time: tenses and time adverbials
• Chapter 5: Modals, negatives, and ways of forming sentences
• Chapter 6: Expressing manner and place
• Chapter 7: Reporting what people say or think
• Chapter 8: Combining messages
• Chapter 9: Changing the focus in a sentence
• Chapter 10: Making a text hold together
• Reference section
• The grammar of business English
• The grammar of academic English
• Index
• About the Publisher