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Acquisition 3
Grammar in Writing
Book: English Grammar through Dutch Eyes
Anouk de Waard
BA English Language and Culture
Leiden University
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Index 1
Ch. 1 - Nouns 4
What are nouns? 4
Gerunds 5
Correlatives 6
The Noun Phrase 6
Ch. 2 - Pronouns 7
Reflexive pronouns 7
Reciprocal pronouns 7
Subject vs. Object pronouns 8
Demonstrative pronouns 8
Interrogative pronouns 8
Ch. 3 - Determiners 9
Demonstrative determiners 9
Quantifiers 9
Distributive determiners 10
Combining determiners 10
Ch. 4 - Possession 12
Possessive S & Possessive x of why construction 12
Possessive determiners 13
Possessive pronouns 13
Possessive reciprocal determiners 13
Ch. 5 - Adjectivals 14
What are adjectivals? 14
Attributive adjectives 14
Predicative adjectives 15
Gradable vs. non-gradable adjectives 16
Order of determiners and adjectives 16
Comparative and superlative grades 17
Special comparative and superlative constructions 17
Ch. 6 - Prepositions 18
Types of prepositions 18
Prepositions of space 18
Prepositions with extended meanings 19
Tricky & difficult prepositions 20
Ch. 8 - Tense 23
What is tense? 23
Reported Speech 25
Present Tense 26
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, Past Tense 26
Ch. 9 - Aspect and Perfect Aspect 27
Perfect aspect in present tense 27
Perfect aspect in past tense 27
Present progressive in letters, emails and complaints 28
Ch. 10 - Progressive Aspect 29
Earliest continuous / progressive constructions 29
Progressive aspect and categories of verbs according to their meaning 29
Differences in meaning 29
Types of verbs 30
Ch. 11 - Future 31
Futurates 31
Most important futurates in English 31
Other futurates in English 31
Ch. 12 - Modality 32
What is mood? 32
What is modality? 32
What is hedging? 32
What are ways of “encoding” modality? 32
What are formal properties of modal verbs? 33
What are marginal modal verbs? 33
What types of modality are there? 33
What is Epistemic modality? 34
What is Deontic modality? 34
What is Dynamic modality? 35
What is lexical modality? 35
What is the subjunctive? 36
Ch. 13 - Adverbs and Adverbials 37
Lexical and grammatical categories that can function as adverbials 37
Adverbs are not clear-cut 39
Adverbials that cause inversion of subject and finite verb 40
Ch. 14 - Building Sentences 41
What types of sentences are there? 41
What is apposition? 41
What is a relative clause? 42
When to use which relative pronoun? 42
What is a participle clause? 42
What about conditionals? 43
How to build cohesive sentences 43
Ch. 15 - Cohesion 44
What is a paragraph? 44
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, What is a topic sentence? 44
What is a theme statement? 44
Types of paragraph development 44
Paragraph blocks 45
Creating paragraph cohesion 45
Linking words and phrases 46
Paragraph progression 47
Thematic patterning principle 47
Tag questions 48
Hypernyms 48
Anaphoric, Antecedent and cataphoric reference 49
Ch. 16 - Register and Style 50
8 Tips ‘n’ Tricks 50
Passives 51
Nominalization 51
Hedging 52
Summary of Features of formal and informal spoken and written registers 52
Punctuation and Spelling 53
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