... away from
grammar as a list of arbitrary problems, and towards grammar as a means of free expression.
We have tried to produce a grammar of real English the English that people speak and write, ...
Birmingham Collection of English Texts. The main patterns of English are picked out and
described, and the typical words and phrases found in each pattern are listed.
This is what a grammar ought to ... 'self-
centred' and &apos ;free- style' are compound adjectives, 'bus stop' and 'state of affairs' are
compound nouns, and 'dry-clean' and 'roller-skate'...
... CONTENTS
PART I. THE ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISHGRAMMAR .
i. The Sentence: Subject and Predicate .
Subject and Predicate
Transposed Order
Practice in Recognizing Subjects and Predicates
2.
Kinds of ... Imperative, and Exclam
atory Sentences
Finding the Subject and Predicate .
Practice in Identifying Kinds of Sentences
More Practice in Recognizing Subjects and Predicates
3.
Simple Subject and ... rules for subject and
predicate do not apply.
Finding the Subject and Predicate
Interrogative and imperative sentences introduce some interesting
problems in finding subject and predicate.
Interrogative...