Burton S.H. Mastering English Grammar

Macmillan, 1984. — x, 178 p. — (Palgrave Master Series). — ISBN: 978-1-349-17519-2.Систематическое, без лишних слов, изложение основ грамматики английского языка. Все положения книги закреплены упражнениями, к которым даны ответы.Mastering English Grammar is a start-at-the-basics, no-nonsense English Grammar book, not only for students of English, but also for those studying modern languages, business people and secretaries — in fact anyone who has forgotten/never known the simple rules of the language they speak.What is grammar?
Language and communication
Making sense
Grammar and sense
Phrases and sentences
Word groups
Phrases
Sentences
Four kinds of sentences
The punctuation of written sentences
Subject and predicate
The two parts of the sentence
The functions of the two parts
Subject and predicate (1)
Subject and predicate (2)
Words in sentences
Words at work
Different work for the same word
An introduction to the parts of speech
The eight parts of speech
Nouns
Verbs
Pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
Family groups and word behaviour
The parts of the simple sentence
Definition of the simple sentence
Subject and predicate
The subject and the subject-word
Subject-word and words qualifying subject-word
Predicate: the verb and words modifying the verb
Predicate: the direct object
Predicate: the indirect object
Predicate: predicative words (or complement)
A tabular list of all the parts of the simple sentence
Finite verbs and non-finite verbs
Finite verbs
Non-finite verbs
Participial phrases
Gerundive phrases
Infinitive phrases
Simple sentence analysis
Tabular analysis
Descriptive analysis
Graphic analysis
Analysing phrases
Clauses and sentences
What is a clause?
Main clauses
Co-ordinating conjunctions
Double sentences
Multiple sentences
Complex sentences
Kinds of sentences: a check-list
Summing up
Subordinate clauses and the work they doAdjective-clauses
Adverb-clauses
Noun-clauses
The analysis of complex double and multiple sentences
Method
Procedure
Notes on procedure
Worked examples: complex sentences