Additional Exercises for Understanding English Grammar:
A Linguistic Introduction

Statue of King Alfred the Great

Statue of King Alfred the Great in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England (photo by Philip Jelley)

 

Click on the chapter titles below for additional exercises relating to each chapter. Explore the links to the right for more resources.

Introduction

Chapter 1: History

Chapter 2: Typology

Chapter 3: Lexicon

Chapter 4: Morphology

Chapter 5: Participant reference

Chapter 6: Actions, states and processes

Chapter 7: Basic concepts in English syntax

Chapter 8: Some advanced concepts in English syntax

Chapter 9: Complementation

Chapter 10: Modification

Chapter 11: Auxiliaries and the "black hole" of English syntax

Chapter 12: Time and reality

Chapter 13: Voice and valence

Chapter 14: Clause combining

Chapter 15: Pragmatic grounding and pragmatically marked constructions