Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION-THE STUDY OF GRAMMAR ; GRAMMAR, IDIOM, AND USAGE ; THE PARTS OF SPEECH ; UNITS OF STRUCTURE ; BASIC SENTENCE TYPES ; FUNCTIONS IN THE SENTENCE ; PART I, THE PARTS OF SPEECH, NOUNS-STRUCTURE OF THE NOUN PHRASE ; NOUN CLASSES ; NOUN FEATURES ; NUMBER ; GENDER ; CASE ; THE GENITIVE ; THE ARTICLES ; FUNCTIONS OF THE NOUN PHRASE ; PRONOUNS-PERSONAL PRONOUNS ; POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS ; REFLEXIVE /EMPHATIC PRONOUNS ; RELATIVE PRONOUNS ; INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS ; DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS ; INDEFINITE PRONOUNS ; PREPOSITIONS-TYPES ; FUNCTIONS ; PREPOSITIONAL MEANINGS ; SOME IDIOMATIC USAGES ; TIED FORMS ; VERBS-LEXICAL AND AUXILIARY ; TYPES OF LEXICAL VERBS ; FORMS OF LEXICAL VERBS ; FINITE AND NON-FINITE ; THE INFINITIVE ; GERUNDS AND PARTICIPLES ; GERUND AND THE INFINITIVE ; THE AUXILIARY ; TENSE ; EXPRESSING THE FUTURE ; ASPECT ; MODALS ; MOOD AND MODALITY ; VOICE: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ; STRUCTURE OF THE VERB PHRASE ; PHRASAL VERBS ; ADJECTIVES-INTRODUCTION ; ADJECTIVE FEATURES ; SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS OF ADJECTIVES ; EXCEPTIONAL CASES ; ADJECTIVE COMPLEMENTATION ; ORDER OF ADJECTIVES ; COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES ; SOME USAGE POINTS ; ADVERBS-ADVERB AS A PART OF SPEECH ; FUNCTIONS OF ADVERBS ; POSITION OF ADVERBS ; COMPARISON OF ADVERBS ; ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS ; SOME POINTS OF USAGE ; CONJUNCTIONS-INTRODUCTION ; CO-ORDINATING AND SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS ; SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS ; CO-ORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS ; PART II, SENTENCE STRUCTURE-THE SIMPLE SENTENCE ; INTRODUCTION ; THE SIMPLE SENTENCE DEFINED ; CLAUSE PATTERNS IN THE SIMPLE SENTENCE ; SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS AND THEMATIC ROLES ; QUESTIONS ; NEGATIVES ; COMMANDS ; EXCLAMATIONS ; COMPLEX AND COMPOUND SENTENCES-INTRODUCTION ; NOMINAL CLAUSES ; RELATIVE CLAUSES ; ADVERB CLAUSES ; COMPARATIVE CLAUSES ; CO-ORDINATE CLAUSES ; GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE AND INFORMATION ORGANIZATION-SOME PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION ORGANIZATION ; CONCORD ; REPORTED SPEECH ; PUNCTUATION ; APPENDIX 1, FORMATION OF THE GENITIVE ; APPENDIX 2, IRREGULAR VERBS

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K.S. Yadurajan, former Professor of English, Department of Extension Services, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad (now The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad), is a well-known language expert, educationist, and author.