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The structure of sentences -- Spoken and written syntax -- Types of sentence -- Sentence structure -- Sentence functions -- Clause elements and types -- Phrases-- Noun phrases -- Verb phrases -- Multiple sentences -- Abbreviation -- Disjuncts and comment clauses -- Reporting speech -- Sentence information -- Beyond the sentence -- pt.

Spoken and written English -- The sound system -- Phonetics and phonology -- Vocal organs -- Vowels -- Consonants -- Syllables -- Connected speech -- Prosody -- Sound symbolism -- Pronunciation in practice -- The writing system -- Graphetics and graphology -- Typography -- The alphabet -- Properties of letters -- Letter frequency -- Letter distribution -- Letter symbolism -- Analysing handwriting -- Graphetic variety -- Spelling -- Sources of irregularity -- Spelling reform -- Punctuation -- The development of the writing system -- pt.

Using English -- Varieties of discourse -- Structure vs use -- Pragmatic issues -- The nature of discourse -- Microlinguistic studies -- Texts and varieties -- Speech vs writing -- Mixed medium -- Monologue and dialogue -- Personal variation -- Individual differences -- Deviance -- Word games -- Rule-breaking varieties -- The edges of language -- Jokes and puns -- Comic alphabets -- Variety humour -- Literary freedom -- Phonetics and phonology -- Graphetics and graphology -- Grammar and lexicon -- Discourse and variety -- Stylometry -- pt.

Learning about English -- Learning English as a mother tongue -- Child language acquisition -- Literacy -- Grammatical development -- Early words and sounds -- Reading and writing -- Insufficient language -- Language disability -- New ways of studying English -- Technological revolution -- Corpus studies -- National and international corpora -- Dictionaries -- Innovations -- Sources and resources -- Appendices -- I.

Glossary -- II. Special symbols and abbreviations -- III. Modern English; 7. World English; Part II. English Vocabulary: 8. The nature of the lexicon; 9.

The sources of the lexicon; Etymology; The structure of the lexicon; Lexical dimensions; Part III. English Grammar: Grammatical mythology; The structure of words; Word classes; The structure of sentences; Part IV. Spoken and Written English: Recently viewed 0 Save Search. The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar Sylvia Chalker and Edmund Weiner English grammar has changed a great deal since the beginning of the twentieth century, and it is a subject that can provide a complex minefield of uncertainties within the language.

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