TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tortora,Christina
TI  - Understanding sentence structure : an introduction to English syntax
T2  - Linguistics in the world
SN  - 9781118659489 (hardback)
U1  - 425 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Hoboken, NJ : 
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell, 
KW  - English language
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
N1  - Let's get parsing! --
The subject NP- outside and In --
The subject's better half: the verb phrase --
Up close and personal with the prepositional phrase --
Infinite wisdom: sentences inside the verb phrase --
It's more complex than that: the complex noun phrase --
Making their presence felt: silent categories --
The main attraction: main verbs and the simple tenses --
The support system: auxiliaries and the compound tenses --
It takes a village: main verbs, auxiliaries, tense, and negation --
Unfinished business
N2  - "This book is for people who have never thought about syntax, and who don't know anything about grammar, but who want to learn. Assuming a blank slate on the part of the reader, the book treats English grammar as a product of the speaker's mind, and builds up student skills by exploring phrases and sentences with more and more complexity, as the chapters proceed"--
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