ABSTRACT

This highly successful text has long been considered the standard introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure. It covers key concepts such as constituency, category and functions, and also utilises tree diagrams throughout to help the reader visualise the structure of sentences.

In this fourth edition, Analysing Sentences has been thoroughly revised and now features a brand new companion website with additional activities and exercises for students and an answer book for the in-text exercises for professors. The extra activities on the website give students practice in identifying syntactic phenomena in running text and will help to deepen understanding of this topic.

Accessible and clear, this book is the perfect textbook for readers coming to this topic for the first time. Featuring many in-text, end-of-chapter and Further Exercises, it is suitable for self-directed study as well as for use as core reading on courses.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter |18 pages

Sentence structure

Constituents

chapter |20 pages

Sentence structure

Functions

chapter |21 pages

Sentence structure

Categories

chapter |21 pages

The basic Verb Phrase

chapter |30 pages

More on verbs

Auxiliary VPs

chapter |25 pages

Sentences within sentences

chapter |27 pages

Wh-clauses

chapter |30 pages

Non-finite clauses