de here can be found in reference grammars. What we do hope is that you will gain not only a knowledge of the facts, but also an awareness of why the facts are the way they are. For this reason, we have intended this book to be a unified course.
Knowledge of linguistic terminology and formalism will give you access to the linguistics literature and therefore to a continuous source of new information about the English language.
As you develop skill in linguistic analysis, you will be able to uncover for yourselves facts about the English language beyond those presented in this text-perhaps beyond those reported on in the literature.
The different chapters discuss some aspect of the grammatical system, providing a definition of the topic, various rules of usage, teaching suggestions and exercises. For example, Chapter Two is devoted to word order and phrase structure rules. Word order in sentences in English are complex bec
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