Author: Joanne Scheibma
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: grammar, english, conversation, studies, american, discourse, subjectivity, view, structural, patterns, point
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027226210
ISBN-13: 9789027226211

This title proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those that are used by speakers to personalize their contributions, not to present unmediated descriptions of the world. These findings are informed by current research and practices in linguistics which argue that the emergence, or conventionalization, of linguistic structure is related to the frequency wit

Authors:Susan Kesner Bland, Alice Savage, Patricia Mayer,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: grammar, writing, advanced, student, sense, book
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-06-21
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0194490173
ISBN-13: 9780194490177

Grammar Sense 4 Advanced Grammar and Writing demonstrates that grammar has a very real, practical application in academic writing. It provides presentation and practice of advanced grammatical structures and guides students through skills needed for academic writing.

Authors:Raymond Murphy, William R. Smalzer,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: grammar, students, english, practice, audio, answers, basic, reference
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2002-04-22
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0521625998
ISBN-13: 9780521625999

Basic Grammar in Use, 2nd edition is a new edition of a highly successful text for high-beginning to low-intermediate students. This text focuses on the fundamental grammar structures normally taught in basic or introductory courses. Basic Grammar in Use presents each of the 116 units in a two-page spread, with simple, clear explanations on the left-hand page and abundant practice exercises to check understanding on the right. This new edition includes an Audio CD with example sentences, more detailed explanations, more exercises per unit, ten units of new material and a new section of Additio

Author: John H. Connolly
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouto
Keywords: functional, grammar, perspectives, series, diachronic, synchronic, constituent, order
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1992-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 311013389X
ISBN-13: 9783110133899

Authors:John H. Connolly, Roel M. Vismans, Christopher S.
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: grammar, functional, series, pragmatics, discourse
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3110151537
ISBN-13: 9783110151534

Functional grammar is a linguistic theory in which language is regarded as a vehicle of communicative interaction. As such, it has a strong pragmatic orientation, and this text presents the results of some recent research into pragmatics within the functional grammar framework.

Author: Mignon Fogarty
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: tips, grammar, quick, amp, dirty, girl, successful, devotional, daily, writing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-10-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0805091653
ISBN-13: 9780805091656

Millions of fans around the globe punctuate properly and communicate clearly thanks to Mignon Fogarty’s practical and easy-to-remember advice about writing style and word usage. Her first book, Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 20 million times and hailed by USA Today as “authoritative but warm.” Now, in tip-of-the-day form, Grammar Girl serves up 365 lessons on language that are sure to inspire. Filled with new, bite-size writing tips, fun quizzes and  puzz

Author: Martin Hewing
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: cambridge, grammar, certificate, pet, first, ielts, audio, cae, proficiency, answers, cds
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-03-23
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0521713757
ISBN-13: 9780521713757

Cambridge Grammar for CAE and Proficiency provides complete coverage of the grammar needed for both CAE and Proficiency with plenty of exam practice at the same time. Grammar is presented in a listening context giving students the chance to hear it being used in realistic situations and making it easier to remember. It includes the full range of exam tasks from the Reading, Writing and Listening papers and shows how grammar knowledge is tested in each of these. Informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus, grammar is presented in genuine contexts and the book covers the errors students really make