Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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