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Wenyuan Gu – Online Submission, 2023
For English as a Second Language (ESL) students or English Language Learners (ELLs), the use of various adverbial clauses was summarized and illustrated of comparison, concession, condition, degree, manner, place, proportion, purpose, reason (or cause), result, and time, including the non-finite clauses, some prepositions, and prepositional…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Dressel, Herman; Robbins, May; Graff, Ellis U. – Laidlaw Brothers Incorporated, 1921
This textbook is the fourth volume in a series of readers. New words are defined and phrases to discuss with the teacher are included.
Descriptors: Textbooks, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students, Vocabulary
Swinton, William – Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1876
This textbook aims to enable pupils to master writing good English rather than teach theory of style and criticism. The contents are divided into five parts. Part I covers construction and combination of sentence and provides a variety of practical exercises. Part II focuses on varying the structure and phraseology of sentences. Part III is an…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, English Instruction
Justice, Paul W. – 2001
This book addresses the growing need to familiarize classroom teachers with the structure and use of language. Written with future teachers in mind, it addresses the core areas they will find most relevant, introducing them to various types of linguistic analysis while covering the basics of phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax. Seven…
Descriptors: Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Higher Education
Sobelman, Chih-ping Chang; And Others – 1982
Fifty-five structures of the Chinese language are described and their particular usage patterns are discussed for the use of teachers, linguists, and advanced students of Chinese. Each structure is listed by its major structural element(s), its grammatical element(s), or a combination of the two. The examination of each structure consists of an…
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages)
Zepeda, Ofelia – 1983
A Papago grammar, intented to help Papago and other junior high, high school and college students learn and appreciate the language and give linguists an overview of the language, contains background information on the language and the book, two grammar units, a unit of five conversations in Papago, and a section of supplementary material. Text…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Acquisition