This practical and compact guide is invaluable for students in advanced grammar courses and essential for all
readers seeking to discover how the English language works. The author employs insights from contemporary linguistic
theories and builds them into a coherent system firmly rooted in traditional models. Focusing on the idea that
students learn grammar by actually "doing grammar," he provides down-to-earth explanations about the
composition of English sentences, illustrating them at every step with diagrams and other visual models. The author
constructs a sensible, even hospitable, approach to grammar. Doing Grammar, 3/e features real, provocative, and
intelligent sentences as examples and exercises. This new edition offers expanded coverage of parts of speech,
using both traditional and descriptive explanations to provide definitions of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,
and prepositions. It also features updated sentence exercises, clear diagrams, and an appendix containing answers
to half the exercises.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Identifying Verb Types
2. Relating Words, Phrases, and Slots
3. Expanding Verb Phrases
4. Exploring Noun Phrases
5. Rearranging and Compounding
6. Constructing Relative Clauses
7. Reducing Relative Clauses to Phrases
8. Making Noun Clauses, Gerunds, and Infinitives
9. Adding Modifiers to Sentences
10. What Can You Do Now that You Can Do Grammar?
Answer Key
Index
