TY  - BOOK
AU  - Downing, Angela
TI  - English Grammar: A University Course
SN  - 9780415732680
U1  - 425 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English Language - Grammar
N1  - 1. Basic concepts
2. The skeleton of the message: Introduction to clause structure
3. The development of the message: Complementation of the verb
4. Interaction between speaker and hearer: Linking speech acts and grammar
5. Conceptualising patterns of experience: Processes, participants, circumstances
6. Organising the message: Thematic and information structures of the clause
7. Combining clauses into sentences
8. Talking about events: The Verbal Group
9. Viewpoints on events: Tense, aspect and modality
10. Talking about people and things: The Nominal Group
11. Describing persons, things and circumstances: Adjectival and adverbial groups
12. Spatial, temporal and other relationships: The prepositional phrase
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