A Grammar of English
Revised edition, 2010, Elly van Gelderen
General |
Assignments/exams for Fall 2010-ASU |
More Sample assignments |
Other |
For fun: Lie vs Lay Orwell's Politics and the English Language |
Sample Exam 2 Sample Exam 3 (with answers) |
Samples of finals; see book pp. 217-221
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and some criticism |
The list of online resources is not meant to be comprehensive - it couldn't be - but is meant to provide a few of the resources that are available. Some are just meant to be fun additions, e.g. the extra headlines in chapter 2. Under each chapter, the practice texts from the book are also repeated so that you can use the same text multiple times.
General
Corpora to use if you want to check
a sentence are the free BNC and COCA. The Oxford English Dictionary is unfortunately not available
without buying access. Many university libraries have such access, e.g. Arizona State University.
Chapter 1
Powerpoint for chapter 1 can be found here. Ambiguous headlines from Bucknell, and at `fun with words' and another site.
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
For some examples where object and adverbials are preposed, listen to Yoda and here's something light on yoda speech. Extra practice chapter 3: Trees-NP.
Chapter 4
Other languages have the same functions that English has; see direct objects in Spanish. A brief ppt for chapter 4 may be helpful. Additional practice can be found here.
Chapter 5
A dictionary of phrasal verbs is helpful perhaps. Additional practice appears here. Extra practice for chapter 5 and a review of chapters 4 and 5 can be found here.
Chapter 6
Nice graph for all the tense and
aspects;
A list of irregular verbs at: http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/verbs.htm and http://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/irregularverbs.html.
The rule for -tted or -ted; tricky (at least for me).
Many versions of Frog went a-courting: http://home.earthlink.net/~highying/froggy/froggy.html
Chapter 8
Misplaced
modifiers are interesting!
Other sites on the use of -ing: troubles with verbs and from the English Club and
Chapter 9
Two sites on the order of adjectives: one at York and one from the English Corner. Extra practice on PPs as modifiers of Ns or as Adverbials can be found here.
Other WEBsites that may be relevant
http://learning.cl3.ust.hk/english-grammar-guide/frame.htm
(last updated August 2014)