Chapter Eight VP: The Passive Voice 8.1 Form of the passive 8.2 Condition and constraints for the use of the passive 8.3 Expressions active in form but passive in meaning
Chapter Nine VP: The Mood and The Means of Denoting The Future Time 9.1 The mood and the moods 9.2 Mandative and formulaic 9.3 Means of denoting the future time
Chapter Ten VP: Modal Auxiliaries 10.1 Orientation 10.2 Significance of the distinction of the two orientations 10.3 Main modals 10.4 Comparisons 10.5 Negation
Chapter Eleven NP and VP: The Adjective and The Adverb(1) 11.1 Syntactic functions of the adjective 11.2 Syntactic classification 11.3 Semantic classification: stative vs.dynamic,gradable vs. Non-gradable 11.4 Adverb as phrasal element 11.5 Adverb clausal element
Chapter Twelve NP and VP: The Adjective and The Adverb(2),The Preposition 12.1 Adverb“with two forms” 12.2 Degrees of adjective and adverb 12.3 Preposition 12.4 Collocation 12.5 Idiomatic use and ellipsis of the preposition
Chapter Thirteen Transformation: Varieties to The Clause Patterns 13.1 Transformation and expansion 13.2 Existential sentence and sentence in which it is involved 13.3 Transformed sentences where it is involved
Chapter Fifteen Transformation: Fronting and Postponement 15.1 Fronting 15.2 Inversion 15.3 Postponement 15.4 Fronting and postponement
Chapter Sixteen Transformation: Substitution and Ellipsis 16.1 Substitution for noun phrases and their constituents 16.2 Substitution for clauses or clause constituents 16.3 Ellipsis
Chapter Seventeen Expansion: From NP to Clause 17.1 NP1 realized by finite and non-finite clauses 17.2 (NP4) realized by finite and non-finite clauses 17.3 (NP2) realized by finite and non-finite clauses 17.4 Finite and non-finite clauses as objects of prepositions
Chapter Twenty Expansion: From to Clause(1) 20.1 Semantic classification and description
Chapter Twenty-one Expansion: From to Clause(2) 21.1 Position in clause 21.2 Dangling clause and its acceptability 21.3 Syntactic classification
Chapter Twenty-two Expansion: Coordination and Apposition 22.1 Syndetic and asyndetic coordination 22.2 Syntactic features and semantic implications of coordinators 22.3 Correlatives and some other points about coordination 22.4 Apposition
Chapter Twenty-three Sentence Analysis: Phrase Structure Rules 23.1 Phrase structure rules(1—3) 23.2 Supplementary features provided by the phrase rules 23.3 Practice of sentence analysis
Chapter Twenty-four Sentence Analysis: Transformed Sentences 24.1 Transformed sentences 24.2 Practice of sentence analysis
Chapter Twenty-five Sentence Analysis: Ambiguous Sentences 25.1 Ambiguous sentences 25.2 Practice of sentence analysis Key to Exercises Bibliography Index