The Grammar Book

Diane Larsen-Freeman is Professor Emerita of Education, Professor Emerita of Linguistics, and Former Director of the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also a Distinguished Senior Faculty Fellow at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. Dr. Larsen-Freeman has been a conference speaker in over 60 countries of the world and has published over 100 articles in her areas of interest. Her Heinle/Cengage titles include "The Grammar Book: Form, Meaning, and Use for English Language Teachers" (third edition, 2015, co-authored with Marianne Celce-Murcia), "From Grammar to Grammaring" (2003, authored), and the fourth edition of "Grammar Dimensions: Form, Meaning, and Use" (2007, Series Director). From 1980–1985, Dr. Larsen-Freeman was Editor of the journal "Language Learning." In 1997, Dr. Larsen-Freeman was inducted into the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999, she was selected by ESL Magazine as one of "the ESL pioneers." In 2000, she received the lifetime achievement award from Heinle & Heinle.

• Chapter 1 - IntroductionChapter 2 - Grammatical TerminologyChapter 3 - LexicogrammarChapter 4 - Copular Verbs and Subject-Verb AgreementChapter 5 - Word Order and the Phrase Structure Rules for the Subject of a SentenceChapter 6 - More Phrase Structure Rules: The Predicate of a SentenceChapter 7 - The Tense-Aspect SystemChapter 8 - Modal Auxiliaries and Related Phrasal FormsChapter 9 - The Tense-Aspect-Modality System in DiscourseChapter 10 - NegationChapter 11 - Yes/No QuestionsChapter 12 - ImperativesChapter 13 - Wh-QuestionsChapter 14 - Tag, Alternative, Exclamatory, and Rhetorical QuestionsChapter 15 - ArticlesChapter 16 - Reference and PossessionChapter 17 - Partitives, Collectives, and QuantifiersChapter 18 - The Passive VoiceChapter 19 - Sentences with Indirect ObjectsChapter 20 - AdjectivesChapter 21 - PrepositionsChapter 22 - Phrasal VerbsChapter 23 - Nonreferential Subjects: Ambient It and Existential ThereChapter 24 - ConjunctionChapter 25 - AdverbialsChapter 26 - Logical ConnectorsChapter 27 - ConditionalsChapter 28 - Introduction to Relative ClausesChapter 29 - More on Relative Clauses: Nonrestrictive and Relative Adverb ClausesChapter 30 - Focus and EmphasisChapter 31 - ComplementationChapter 32 - Other Aspects of ComplementationChapter 33 - Reported Speech and WritingChapter 34 - Degree - Comparatives and EquativesChapter 35 - Degree - Complementations and SuperlativesChapter 36 - ConculsionSuggested Answers to Chapter ExercisesIndexes:Index of NamesIndex of Languages and Language GroupsIndex of Words, Phrases, and AffixesIndex of Topics