1Chapter 1. Introduction
778.13 Comparative Adverbs and Superlative Adverbs
21.1 What is “English”?
788.14 Prepositions
31.2 What is a linguistic approach?
798.15 Categories of prepositions
41.3 Summary
808.16 Prepositions vs. Infinitives
51.4 Exercise
818.17 Conjunctions
6Chapter 2. Language And Cross-Culture Communication
828.18 Coordinating Conjunctions
72.1 Language and the influence of culture on language
838.19 Beginning a sentence with a coordinating conjunction
82.2 Cross-cultural Miscommunication
848.20 Other Parts of Speech
92.3 Politeness during Interaction
858.22 Summary
102.4 Art of framing your sentences
868.23 Exercise
112.5 Summary
87Chapter 9. Phrases and Clauses
122.6 Exercise
889.1 Phrases
13Chapter 3. The Social Context of The English Language
899.2 Absolute phrases and Appositive phrases
143.1 Grammatical vs. pragmatic meaning
909.3 Clauses
153.2 Sentence vs. utterance
919.4 Difference between Phrases and Clauses
163.3 Speech act theory
929.5 Summary
17 3.4 The Cooperative Principle
939.6 Exercise
183.5 Politeness
94Chapter 10. Punctuation
193.6 Summary
9510.1 Comma (,)
203.7 Exercise
9610.2 Apostrophe ( ‘)
21Chapter 4. Structure and Functions
9710.3 Quotation (” “)
224.1 Poverty Of Stimulus
9810.4 Question and Exclamation Mark (? !)
234.2 Applying the metaphor to the structure of sentences
9910.5 Hyphen (–)
244.3 Compositionality
10010.6 Dash (–)
254.4 Movement and Deletion
10110.7 Parenthesis (), Brackets [], Braces {}
264.5 Grammars are finite; language is not
10210.8 Ellipsis ( …)
274.6 Summary
10310.9 Colon (:)
284.7 Exercise
10410.10 Semicolon (;)
29Chapter 5. Meaning And The Matter Of Context
10510.11 Summary
305.1 Difference between speaker’s meaning and semantic meaning
10610.2 Exercise
315.2 Semantics
107Chapter 11. Modifiers
325.3 Fundamentals of Semantic Concepts
10811.1 Adjectives
335.4 Principle of Compositionality
10911.2 Pre-Modifiers
345.5 Subject, Predicate, and argument of the sentence
11011.3 Post-Modifiers
355.6 Semantics in the law
11111.4 Summary
365.7 Pragmatics
11211.5 Exercise
375.8 Summary
113Chapter 12. Parallelism
385.9 Exercise
11412.1 Introduction
39Chapter 6. Phonetics and Phonology
11512.2 Parallel structure in a series
406.1 Articulatory Phonetics
11612.3 Outlines and headings
416.2 Consonants
11712.4 Parallelism in Rhetoric
426.3 Voicing
11812.5 Summary
436.4 Nasality
11912.6 Exercise
446.5 Manner of articulation
120Chapter 13. Mood
456.6 Vowels
12113.1 Problems with Mood
466.7 Front and back vowels
12213.2 Categories of Modality
476.8 Diphthongs
12313.3 Categories of Mood
486.9 Phonology
12413.4 Different approaches to the system of the moods
496.10 Phonemes
12513.5 Summary
506.11 Allophones
12613.6 Exercise
516.12 Phonemes and Allophones
127Chapter 14. Subject-Verb Agreement
526.13 Allophones and their contexts
12814.1 Subject-Verb Agreement Rules
536.14 Phonological rules
12914.2 Exception to the rules
546.15 Summary
13014.3 Subject-Verb Agreement and Money
556.16 Exercise
13114.4 Subject-Verb Agreement and Time
56Chapter 7. Morphology and Word Formation
13214.4 Subject-Verb Agreement and Collective Noun
577.1 Types of Morphemes
13314.5 Subject-Verb Agreement and Indefinite Pronouns
587.2 Derivational Affixes
13414.6 Subject-Verb Agreement and Interrupting Phrases
597.3 Inflectional Affixes
13514.7 Locating the Subject
607.4 Complex Morphological Structures and the Notion of Derivation
13614.8 Summary
617.5 Phonosemantics and contextual meaning
13714.9 Exercise
627.6 Summary
138Chapter 15. Writing
637.7 Exercise
13915.1 Writing Systems
64Chapter 8. Parts of Speech
14015.2 Development of writing
658.1 Noun
14115.3 Consequences of literacy
668.2 Pronouns
14215.4 Summary
678.3 Verbs
14315.5 Exercise
688.4 Categories of Verbs
144Chapter 16. Language and The Brain
698.5 Conjugation
14516.1 Biology of the brain
708.6 Adjectives
14616.2 Biology of language
718.7 Categories of Adjectives
14716.3 Methods of the study of the biology of language
728.8 Adjective Phrases and Adjective Clauses
14816.4 Music and Language
738.9 Order of Adjectives
14916.5 Summary
748.10 Adverbs
15016.6 Exercise
758.11 Categories of Adverbs
151Glossary
768.12 Regular Adverbs and Irregular Adverbs