本书旨在教会学生如何在语言交际中运用英语语法，帮助他们发现和克服常犯的语法错误。本书最大的特点是，将语法学习与跨文化交际和语用学相结合。全书共分20章，每章均以“诊断测试”开头，帮助学生发现不足，然后用简明的语言对主要语法规则和现象进行讲解，并根据需要安排练习供学生操练。

本书全部用英文写成，主要供英语专业学生使用，也可供其他英语爱好者和自学者使用。

New English Grammar in Use for English Majors intends to teach the students how to use grammar in practical communication and how to find and correct the errors that they usually make. This book is a tool for self-access learning. In compiling this book we have three main objectives. First, it serves as a coursebook of English grammar for English majors who have studied English in middle school for five or six years. It is to help them review and deepen their understanding of major grammatical structures in English. Second, it provides a number of exercises which are designed on the principle that language teaching is to be combined with cross-cultural communication and pragmatics. Third, it helps students to prepare themselves for English proficiency exams. The book is, of course, not a comprehensive grammar book, such as is available in the book market, but rather a concise review of essential grammar points.

Introduction to Grammar

 What is grammar?

 Why do we study grammar?

 Grammatical hierarchy

Chapter 1 The Parts of Speech

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A. The noun

B. The pronoun

C. The adjective

D. The verb

E. The adverb

F. The preposition

G. The conjunction

H. The interjection

Chapter 2 The Parts of a Sentence

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A. Subject and predicate

B. How to find the subject of a sentence

C. Complements

D. Direct and indirect object

E. The object complement

F. Subject complement

Chapter 3 The Phrase and the Clause

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Ⅰ. The phrase rank

A. Noun phrases and verb phrases

B. Adjective phrases and adverb phrases

C. The prepositional phrases

Ⅱ. The clause rank

A. The relative clause

B. The noun clause

C. The adverbial clause

D. The subordinating conjunction

E. Sentences classified by structure

F. Sentences classified by purpose

Chapter 4 The Subject-Verb Agreement

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A. Guiding principles

B. Problems of agreement with nouns ending in -s

C. Problems of agreement with collective nouns

D. Problems of agreement with subject containing coordinate forms

E. Problems of agreement with expressions of quantity

F. Problems of agreement with noun clause as subject

G. Problems of agreement in relative-clause and existential sentence

Chapter 5 The Determiners

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A. Function and classes of determiners

B. Pre-determiners

C. Collocations between determiners

D. Article idiomatic usage

Chapter 6 Correct Use of Pronouns

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A. Personal pronouns

B. Reflexive pronouns, emphatic pronouns and each other

C. The pronoun one/ones

D. Everyone, something, etc

Chapter 7 Verb Tenses and Aspects

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A. Comparison between present progressive and simple present

B. Comparison between present perfect and simple past

C. Comparison between past progressive and simple past

D. Comparison between present perfect progressive and present perfect

E. Comparison between past simple and past perfect

F. Past perfect progressive

G. Ways of expressing future time

Chapter 8 Active and Passive Voice

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A. The use of the passive

B. Tenses and aspects in the passive

C. The passive with get

D. Special passive patterns

E. Passive + to-infinitive or active participle

F. The passive to-infinitive and present participle

G. Active forms with a passive meaning

H. The passive or be + adjective

I. The passive of phrasal verbs

Chapter 9 The Subjunctive Mood

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A. Be-subjunctive

B. Were-subjunctive

Chapter 10 Auxiliary Verbs

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A. The primary auxiliary verbs (do,have,be)

B. The modal auxiliaries

C. The NICE properties of auxiliaries

D. Semi-auxiliaries

Chapter 11 Non-Finite Verbs

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A. Infinitive and the infinitive phrase

B. Ing-participle

C. Ing-participle clauses

D. Ing-participle or ed-participle clauses?

Chapter 12 Adjectives, Adverbs and Their Phrases

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A. Adjective patterns

B. Adjectives used in one position only

C. Adjectives and participles

D. The order of adjectives

E. Adjectives used as nouns

F. Adjectives or adverbs

G. Comparative and superlative forms

H. Patterns expressing a comparison

I. Adverbs and word order

Chapter 13 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

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A. The other functions of prepositional phrases

B. Prepositions of place

C. Prepositions of time

D. Idiomatic phrases with prepositions

E. Noun+preposition

F. Prepositional verbs

G. Verb+objece+preposition

H. Phrasal verbs

Chapter 14 Statements and Questions

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A. Statement

B. Negative statements

C. Questions

Chapter 15 Coordination and Subordination

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A. Coordinate ideas

B. Subordinate ideas

C. Adverbial clauses

chapter 16 Conditional Clauses

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A. Introduction

B. Type 0 conditionals

C. Type 1 conditionals

D. Type 2 conditionals

E. Type 3 conditionals

F. If,as long as,unless,in case,etc.

G. Should,were,had and inversion

H. Implied conditions

Chapter 17 Noun Clauses

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A. Introduction

B. Patterns with noun clauses

C. Direct and indirect speech

Chapter 18 Relative Clauses

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A. Identifying clauses

B. Classifying clauses

C. Adding clauses

D. Connective clauses

E. The comparison of the identifying clause and the adding clause

F. The comparison of the classifying clause and the adding clause

G. Relative pronouns

H. The pattern a quantifier + of whom/of which

I. A special use of which

J. The use of that

K. Relative adverbs

Chapter 19 Leaving Out and Replacing Words

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A. Avoiding repetition

B. Leaving out words after the auxiliary

C. Leaving out an infinitive clause

D. Leaving out words after a question word

E. Leaving out words through coordination

F. Leaving out words at the beginning of a sentence

G. Patterns with too, either, so and neither/nor

H. Do so, do it and do tha

I. Some other ways of avoiding repetition

Chapter 20 Information and Emphasis

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A. Word order and information

B. Front-position

C. The empty there and it

D. There or it

E. Emphasis

Key to Exercises

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