Collins Cobuild English Grammar 3rd Edition by Penny Hands ISBN 0007393644 9780007393640

The Collins COBUILD English Grammar 3rd Edition, based on the Collins Corpus, takes a functional approach to grammar, focusing on how language is used in real contexts rather than just listing rules. While a full, detailed table of contents with all sub-sections isn’t readily available, several sources provide a good overview of its structure and main chapters.

Here’s an inferred table of contents for the Collins COBUILD English Grammar 3rd Edition:

Collins COBUILD English Grammar 3rd Edition: Table of Contents (Inferred)

1. 1. Referring to People and Things:

      • Nouns (countable, uncountable, compound, abstract)
      • Pronouns (personal, possessive, reflexive, demonstrative, indefinite, relative)
      • Determiners (articles, quantifiers, demonstratives, possessives)

   2. Giving Information about People and Things:

      • Adjectives (describing qualities, comparative and superlative forms)
      • Adverbs (describing manner, place, time, degree)
      • Prepositions (location, direction, time, etc.)
      • Clauses and phrases that describe nouns (e.g., relative clauses)

   3. Types of Verb:

      • Auxiliary verbs (be, have, do)
      • Modal verbs (can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would, ought to)
      • Main verbs (transitive, intransitive, phrasal verbs)

   4. Expressing Time: Tenses and Time Adverbials:

      • Present tenses (simple present, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous)
      • Past tenses (simple past, past continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous)¹
      • Future forms (will, be going to, present continuous for future, simple present for future)
      • Time expressions and adverbs

   5. Modals, Negatives, and Ways of Forming Sentences:

      • Further exploration of modal uses (e.g., certainty, possibility, obligation, permission)
      • Forming negatives
      • Forming questions (yes/no questions, wh-questions, question tags)
      • Imperatives

   6. Expressing Manner and Place:

      • Adverbs of manner
      • Prepositions of place and movement
      • Phrases of place and movement

   7. Reporting What People Say or Think:

      • Direct and Indirect Speech (Reported Speech)
      • Reporting verbs

   8. Combining Messages:

      • Conjunctions (coordinating, subordinating)
      • Connecting words and phrases
      • Sentence structure (simple, compound, complex sentences)

   9. Changing the Focus in a Sentence:

      • Passive voice
      • Cleft sentences
      • Inversion

   10. Making a Text Hold Together (Cohesion):

       • Pronoun reference
       • Ellipsis and substitution
       • Lexical cohesion