Lecture 1 General Introduction on English Grammar and Grammar Learning 1
Section 1 Two Different Approaches to Grammar Rules 2
Section 2 Two Parts of English Grammar:Morphology and Syntax 3
Section 3 The Central Topic of Morphology 1:Word-formation Rules 4
Section 4 The Central topic of Morphology 2:The Parts of Speech 5
Section 5 Introduction to the General Structure of English Sentences 9
Section 6 Discourse:Text Interpretations beyond Sentence Level 11
Lecture 2 Nouns 15
Section 1 Kinds of Nouns 16
Section 2 Numbers 20
Section 3 Gender 26
Section 4 Case 28
Lecture 3 Articles and Determiners 37
Section 1 Articles 38
Section 2 Determiners 44
Lecture 4 Pronouns 58
Section 1 Personal Pronouns 60
Section 2 Possessive Pronouns 63
Section 3 Demonstrative Pronouns 64
Section 4 Reflexive and Emphatic Pronouns 65
Section 5 Interrogative Pronouns 67
Section 6 Indefinite Pronouns 68
Section 7 Relative Pronouns 71
Lecture 5 Verbs and Verb Tenses 79
Section 1 Definition and Characteristics of Verbs 80
Section 2 Kinds and Functions of Verbs 81
Section 3 Basic Forms of Verbs 82
Section 4 Causative Usage of Verbs 84
Section 5 Tenses 86
Lecture 6 Verbs:The Special Finites 107
Section 1 Formation of the Negative 109
Section 2 Formation of the Interrogative 109
Section 3 Short Answers 110
Section 4 Question Phrases 110
Section 5 Elliptical Sentences 112
Section 6 The Emphatic Form 112
Section 7 Grammatical Auxiliary Verbs 113
Section 8 Modal Auxiliary Verbs 117
Lecture 7 Verbs:Voice and Mood 132
Section 1 Active Voice and Passive Voice 133
Section 2 The Subjunctive Mood 138
Lecture 8 Verbs:The Non-Finites 152
Section 1 The Infinitive 153
Section 2 The Participles 161
Section 3 The Gerund 164
Lecture 9 Adjectives and Adverbs 173
Section 1 Adjectives and Their Attributive and Predicative Usage 174
Section 2 Degrees of Adjectives 177
Section 3 The Position of Adjectives 180
Section 4 Possessive Adjectives 181
Section 5 Types of Adjectives 181
Section 6 Adverbs 184
Lecture 10 Prepositions and Adverbial Particles 195
Section 1 Introduction to Prepositions 196
Section 2 Position of Prepositions 206
Section 3 Illustration of the Usage of Prepositions and Adverbial Particles 207
Section 4 Prepositions and Adverbial Particles:Their Relation to Phrasal Verbs 217
Lecture 11 Connectives,Interjections and Exclamations 223
Section 1 Connectives 224
Section 2 Subordinate Conjunctions 228
Section 3 Interjections and Exclamations 237
Lecture 12 Sentence,Clause and Subordinate Clause 247
Section 1 Sentence 248
Section 2 Clause 253
Section 3 Subordinate Clause 254
Lecture 13 Adverbial Clauses 271
Section 1 Adverbial Clause of Condition 272
Section 2 Adverbial Clause of Reason 274
Section 3 Adverbial Clause of Result 276
Lecture 14 Direct Speech and Indirect Speech 279
Section 1 Direct Speech 280
Section 2 Indirect Speech 282
Section 3 From Direct Speech into Indirect Speech 283
Lecture 15 Sentence Analysis 297
Section 1 General Approach to Sentence Analysis 298
Section 2 A List of English Sentence Patterns 304
Lecture 16 Formation Rule and Its Relation to the History of the English Language 321
Section 1 A Brief Introduction to the History of the English language 322
Section 2 Main Constituent Elements in English Language 329
Section 3 Some Ideas on English Semantics and Particular Features of English Words 337
Section 4 The Word-formation Rules of the English Language 338
Lecture 17 Phrasal Verbs,Prepositional Verbs,Phrasal-Prepositional Verbs and Particles 362
Section 1 Phrasal Verbs 363
Section 2 Phrasal-Prepositional Verbs 378
Section 3 Adjective+Prepositional Phrases 381
Section 4 Phrasal Verbs Containing Nouns 382
Lecture 18 Special Grammar and Stylistic Devices in Grammar:Emphasis,Ellipsis and Inversion 390
Section 1 Emphasis 391
Section 2 Ellipsis 394
Section 3 Inversion 400
Lecture 19 The Pronunciation and Intonation of the English Language 410
Section 1 English Grammar and Its Relation to the English Pronunciation and Intonation 412
Section 2 The Sounds of English:Vowels,Diphthongs,Consonants and Length of Sounds 421
Section 3 Stress of the Words 427
Section 4 Stress in Connected Speech(Sentence Stress) 428
Section 5 Rhythm 430
Section 6 The Intonation in English 432
Key to Exercises 437
References 454