The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher's Course

The Grammar Book is an impressive achievement: it combines an excellent treatment of the structure of English with pedagogical suggestions, and in the process it leads aspiring teachers into the intellectual challenge of discovery that is essential for all proficient ESL/EFL instructors. If we cannot figure out the rules of English, how can we hope to effectively assist our students, either implicitly or explicitly, in understanding and mastery?Called "the bible of grammar teaching", The Grammar Book is a well-written and well-structured book. Written primarily for ESL/EFL teachers as well as students, it contains every imaginable aspect of English grammar. Detailed grammatical descriptions and useful teaching suggestions are organized into sections dealing with Form, Meaning, and Use. The authors get into the historical WHY of grammar, provide creative teaching activities, and include a lot of comparisons of English to non-English languages. Practising and prospective ESL/EFL teachers should find this book highly useful. Furthermore, advanced students of English as a foreign/second language should benefit from this book.  

 

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Grammatical Metalanguage
3. The Lexicon
4. The Copula and Subject-Verb Agreement
5. Introduction to Phrase Structure
6. More Phrase Structure Rules
7. The Tense and Aspect System
8. Modal Auxiliaries and Related Phrasal Forms
9. The Tense-Aspect-Modality System in Discourse
10. Negation
11. Yes/No Questions
12. Imperatives
13. WH-Questions
14. Other Structures That Look Like Questions
15. Articles
16. Reference and Possession
17. Partitives. Collectives. and Quantifiers
18. The Passive Voice
19. Sentences with Indirect Objects
20. Adjectives
21. Prepositions
22. Phrasal Verbs
23. Nonreferential It and There as Subjects
24. Coordinating Conjunction
25. Adverbials
26. Logical Connectors
27. Conditional Sentences
28. Introduction to Relative Clauses
29. More on Relative Clauses
30. Focus and Emphasis
31. Complementation
32. Other Aspects of Complementation and Embedded Clauses
33. Reported Speech and Writing
34. Degree--Comparatives and Equatives
35. Degree--Complements and Superlatives
36. Conclusion

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