The grammar book : an ESL/EFL teacher's course / Marianne Celce-Murcia, Diane Larsen-Freeman with Howard Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Grammatical metalanguage -- The lexicon -- The copula and subject-verb agreement -- Introduction to phrase structure -- More phrase structure rules -- The tense and aspect system -- Modal auxiliaries and related phrasal forms -- The tense-aspect-modality system in discourse -- Negation -- Yes/No questions -- Imperatives -- WH-questions -- Other structures that look like questions -- Articles -- Reference and possession -- Partitives, collectives, and quantifiers -- The passive voice -- Sentences with indirect objects -- Adjectives -- Prepositions -- Phrasal verbs -- Nonreferential it and there as subjects -- Coordinating conjunction -- Adverbials -- Logical connectors -- Conditional sentences -- Introduction to relative clauses -- More on relative clauses -- Focus and emphasis -- Complementation -- Other aspects of complementation and embedded clauses -- Reported speech and writing -- Degree-Comparatives and equatives -- Degree-Complements and superlatives -- Conclusion.