English Grammar
A University Course
Angela Downing
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English Grammar
A University Course
Angela Downing
Información del libro
This best-selling comprehensive descriptive grammar forms a complete course, ideal for all students studying English Language, whether on a course or for self-study. Broadly based on Hallidayan systemic-functional grammar but also drawing on cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, English Grammar is accessible, avoiding overly theoretical or technical explanations.
Divided into 12 self-contained chapters based around language functions, each chapter is divided into units of class-length material. Key features include:
Numerous authentic texts from a wide range of sources, both spoken and written, which exemplify the grammatical description.
Clear chapter and module summaries enable efficient class preparation and student revision.
Extensive exercises with a comprehensive answer key.
This new edition has been thoroughly updated with new texts, a more user-friendly layout, more American English examples and a companion website, providing extra tasks, a glossary and a teachers' guide.
This is the essential coursebook and reference work for all native and non-native students of English grammar on English language and linguistics courses.
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Información
Chapter 1
Basic Concepts
Unit 1
Language and Meaning
1.1 Communicative Acts
Offer | J: | If you like, I’ll come into your shop tomorrow and get some more model aeroplane kits. |
Reminder | C: | O.K. Don’t forget to bring the bill with you this time. |
Promise | J: | I won’t. |
Question | Do you enjoy working there? | |
Statements | C: | It’s all right, I suppose. Gets a bit boring. It’ll do for a while. |
Statement | J: | I would have thought you were good at selling things. |
Statement | C: | I don’t know what to do really. I’ve had other jobs. My Dad keeps on at me to go into his business. He keeps offering me better wages, |
Exclamation | but the last thing to do is to work for him! | |
Question | J: | Why? |
Echo question | C: | Why? You don’t know my old man! I |
Exclamations | wouldn’t work for him! He always | |
Statement | wanted me to, but we don’t get on. . . . | |
Question | D’you think it’s possible to get me on a part-time Youth Leadership Course? | |
Offer/Promise | J: | I’ll ring up tomorrow, Chris, and find out for you. |
Thanking | C: | Thanks a lot. |
1.2 The Content of Communication
- processes: that is, actions, events, states, types of behaviour;
- participants: that is, entities of all kinds, not only human, but inanimate, concrete and abstract, that are involved in the processes;
- attributes: that is, qualities and characteristics of the participants;
- circumstances: that is, any kind of contingent fact or subsidiary situation which is associated with the process or the main situati...