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ANALYZING THE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH
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the Grammar
of English
Third Edition
Richard V. Teschner
and
Eston E. Evans
Georgetown University Press | Washington, D.C.
Analyzing
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As of January 1, 2007, 13-digit ISBN numbers have
replaced the 10-digit system.
13-digit Paperback: 978-1-58901-166-3
10-digit Paperback: 1-58901-166-X
Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C.
© 2007 by Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Teschner, Richard V.
Analyzing the grammar of English / Richard V. Teschner and
Eston E. Evans.—3rd ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58901-166-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-58901-166-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. English language—Grammar. I. Evans, Eston Earl,
1940– II. Title.
PE1112.T48 2007
425–dc22
2006031186
This book is printed on acid-free paper meeting the requirements
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Printed Library Materials.
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Contents
Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
1 Utterances, Sentences, Clauses, and Phrases 1
The Most Important Parts of Speech 5
Noun 5
Verb 7
Adjective 10
Adverb 12
Pronoun 13
Determiner 14
Quantifier 14
Preposition 14
Case 16
Subject Case 17
Genitive/Possessive Case 17
Object Case and Subject Case 17
Sounds: Phones, Phonemes, and Allophones 19
Forms: Morphemes and Allomorphs 24
/z/—A Highly Productive English Morpheme 25
/d/—Another Highly Productive English Morpheme 28
Problems with /d/ 29
Note 30
2 Verbs, Tenses, Forms, and Functions 31
Conjugating a Verb 31
Regular Verbs 31
Irregular Verbs 32
The Nine Morphological Patterns of Irregular Verbs 33
Verb Tenses and Auxiliary Verbs: The Nonmodal Auxiliaries ( Do, Be, Have ) and
the Modal Auxiliaries 38
The Simple Tenses 38
The Importance of the Subject 38
Imperatives, the Present Tense, and the Excluded Subject Pronoun 39
The Compound Tenses: Present and Past 39
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