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Contents Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Part A: Overview Chapter 2: Seven amazing facts about elephants 6 Five basic clause patterns 8 Subject+verb 8 Subject+verb+object 10 Subject+verb+object+object 11 Subject+verb+complement 12 Subject+verb+object+complement 13 The story so far 14 Subject+verb+adverbial 14 Subject+verb+object+adverbial 15 Chapter 3: Nouns and noun-like things 17 Nouns 17 Pronouns 18 Noun phrases 20 Adjectives 22 Chapter 4: What is this thing called ‘verb’? 25 The word ‘verb’ 25 Verbs as a word class 25 Main verbs 26 Verbs as a clause element 29 Chapter 5: Adverbs and other awkward customers 33 Adverbs and adverbials 33 Adverbs 34 Adverbials 35 Prepositional phrases as adverbials 37 Chapter 6: Real-life sentences 39 Three types of sentence 39 A bit more about verbs 42 Part B: The details Chapter 7: Words 46 Word classes 46 Nouns 47 Adjectives 50 Verbs 53 Adverbs 60 Pronouns 64
Determiners 67 Prepositions 68 Conjunctions 69 Chapter 8: Phrases 71 Types of phrase 71 Noun phrases 72 Verb phrases 76 Prepositional phrases 82 Adjective phrases 83 Adverb phrases 85 Chapter 9: Clauses 86 Subject 87 Verb 88 Object 89 Complement 90 Adverbial 92 Clause patterns 95 Chapter 10: Sentences 97 Types of sentence 97 Simple and multiple sentences 98 Simple sentences 99 Compound sentences 99 Complex sentences 100 Functions of subordinate clauses 101 Part C: Reference section Glossary 106 Further reading 155 Appendix: Grammar in the Primary Strategy 156 Index 160 Oxpecker Book Publishers 164
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