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1 online resource (xii, 328 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Stadt- und Regionalplanung
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Stadt- und Regionalplanung.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Grammatical description: getting started -- Grammar: syntax, morphology and semantics -- Form and function distinction -- Sentence functions introduced -- Four form types -- Word classes -- Discontinuity -- Basic sentence structures -- More sentence functions and structures -- Summary of sentence functions and structures -- Sentence functions -- Predicator -- Subject -- Direct object -- Indirect object -- Subject complement -- Object complement -- Adverbials -- Predicates and predications -- Complex forms -- Groups -- Types of subordination in groups -- Preposition group -- Compound unit -- Types of coordination -- Coordinating conjunctions -- Clauses -- Functions of subclauses -- Markers of clausal subordination -- Embedding and recursiveness -- Clause types and utterance functions -- Major types of clause -- Communicative functions -- Forms of communicative functions -- Missing constituents, ellipsis and pro-forms -- Zero convention -- Types of ellipsis -- Pro-forms -- Vocatives, interjections and dislocation -- Constituent Order -- Functions of constituent order -- Inversion -- Subject-operator inversion -- Full inversion -- Constituent order in subclauses -- Position and order of adverbials -- Initial position -- Medial position -- Terminal position -- Positions in nonfinite clauses -- Factors governing the distribution of adverbials -- Relative position of adverbials -- Situations and participants -- Actionality: dynamic versus stative situations. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
Essentials of Mastering English: A Concise Grammar is both an ideal companion for undergraduate students wishing to acquire a high level of grammatical proficiency and a readily accessible reference work for teachers of English at all levels. It provides an introduction to basic grammatical terms and to elementary syntactic description, enabling students to analyse sentences and utterances down to word level with a specification of both the form and the function of all constituents. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Grammar.
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English language -- Grammar. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bache, Carl, 1953- Essentials of mastering English 3110167220 (DLC) 99057777 (OCoLC)42810880 |
| ISBN |
9783110825985 (electronic book) |
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3110825988 (electronic book) |
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3110167220 |
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9783110167221 |
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