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Tables of Contents for Grammar and Writing
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Author's Acknowledgements
viii
 
Publisher's Acknowledgements
x
 
Introduction
1
3
Rebecca Stott
Peter Chapman
How to use this book
4
1
Making sense of sentences
5
26
Rebecca Stott
Peter Chapman
Recognising grammatical structures
5
6
The grammar of sentences
11
10
The four kinds of sentence construction
21
3
Language in use: the functions of co-ordination and subordination
24
2
Sentence types and communication
26
4
Summary
30
1
The anatomy of the clause
31
30
Rebecca Stott
Peter Chapman
The structure of clauses
32
4
Inside the clause: the verb element
36
8
Inside the clause: the subject element
44
2
Inside the clause: the adverbial
46
5
Inside the clause: the direct object
51
2
Inside the clause: the indirect object
53
1
Inside the clause: the subject complement
53
2
Inside the clause: the object complement
55
1
More dependent clauses
56
4
Summary
60
1
Word grammar
61
21
Rebecca Stott
Peter Chapman
Word functions
Open word classes: the noun
64
2
Open word classes: the adjective
66
5
Open word classes: the verb
71
2
Open word classes: the adverb
73
2
Closed word classes
75
1
Closed word classes: the conjunction
76
1
Closed word classes: the pronoun
77
1
Closed word classes: the preposition
78
1
Closed word classes: the determiner
79
1
Word classes: an overview
79
2
Summary
81
1
Phrase grammar
82
21
Rebecca Stott
Peter Chapman
Word classes and phrase classes
82
4
Noun phrases
86
4
Adjectival phrases
90
1
Verb phrases
91
3
Adverbial phrases
94
1
Prepositional phrases
94
3
Unravelling syntax
97
4
Summary
101
2
Punctuation
103
21
Rebecca Stott
Peter Chapman
The semi-colon
107
5
The comma
112
5
The colon
117
1
The double dash and the single dash
117
1
The apostrophe
118
2
Rules and conventions
120
2
Summary
122
2
Structures beyond the sentence
124
17
Rebecca Stott
Kim Landers
Genre and text structure
125
2
What is a paragraph?
127
1
What is coherence?
128
4
What is cohesion and how does it work?
132
2
Connective words and phrases
134
3
Topic sentences
137
3
Summary
140
1
Grammar and style
141
19
Val Scullion
Great Expectations
142
3
Charles Dickens
Middlemarch
145
2
George Eliot
The Waves
147
3
Virginia Woolf
A Maggot
150
2
John Fowles
Under Milk Wood
152
3
Dylan Thomas
`The Colonel'
155
3
Carolyn Forche
Summary
158
2
Trouble-shooting
160
13
Glossary
173
5
Further reading
178
1
Index
179