本书深入浅出地阐述了英语语法规律。全书结构严谨、自成一家，是著名语法学、修辞学和翻译学者黄任教授发展完善其《分析英语语法》的最新力作。

全书共分25个单元，把“词法”和“句法”合并起来讲解的形式，从短语切入，围绕句子的扩展和转换逐项论述，相信可以给广大英语语法学习者带来新的学习体验。

本书打破传统语法把“词法”和“句法”分开讲解的形式，从短语切入，围绕句子的扩展和转换逐项论述。它有利于学生完整地把握句法，并从句法引导到段落组织和文章安排，使语法和语言表达有机地结合起来。

本书力求突出创新与实用的特点，既注意吸取传统语法教学的精华，又重视融入转换生成语法和教学语法的新思想，同时注重理论与实践的结合。

本书可供英语专业本科生、研究生使用。

Introduction

  0.1 Purpose and approaches

  0.2 Hierarchical structure of English grammar

Chapter One Composition of NP and VP

  1.1 Two formulae

  1.2 Composition of NP

  1.3 Composition of VP

Chapter Two NP: The Determiner

  2.1 Membership

  2.2 Collocation

  2.3 Simple and compound determiner

Chapter Three NP: The Article

  3.1 Reference

  3.2 Idiomatic use

Chapter Four NP: Number，Case and Gender

  4.1 Number

  4.2 Case

  4.3 Gender

Chapter Five NP: Modifiers and Pronoun

  5.1 Modifiers

  5.2 Pronoun

Chapter Six VP: The Tense

  6.1 Two tenses and no more

  6.2 Sense of time

  6.3 Tense and time

Chapter Seven VP: The Aspect

  7.1 Progressive

  7.2 Perfective

  7.3 Perfective progressive

Chapter Eight VP: The Passive Voice

  8.1 Form of the passive

  8.2 Condition and constraints for the use of the passive

  8.3 Expressions active in form but passive in meaning

Chapter Nine VP: The Mood and The Means of Denoting The Future Time

  9.1 The mood and the moods

  9.2 Mandative and formulaic

  9.3 Means of denoting the future time

Chapter Ten VP: Modal Auxiliaries

  10.1 Orientation

  10.2 Significance of the distinction of the two orientations

  10.3 Main modals

  10.4 Comparisons

  10.5 Negation

Chapter Eleven NP and VP: The Adjective and The Adverb（1）

  11.1 Syntactic functions of the adjective

  11.2 Syntactic classification

  11.3 Semantic classification: stative vs.dynamic，gradable vs. Non-gradable

  11.4 Adverb as phrasal element

  11.5 Adverb clausal element

Chapter Twelve NP and VP: The Adjective and The Adverb（2）,The Preposition

  12.1 Adverb“with two forms”

  12.2 Degrees of adjective and adverb

  12.3 Preposition

  12.4 Collocation

  12.5 Idiomatic use and ellipsis of the preposition

Chapter Thirteen Transformation: Varieties to The Clause Patterns

  13.1 Transformation and expansion

  13.2 Existential sentence and sentence in which it is involved

  13.3 Transformed sentences where it is involved

Chapter Fourteen Transformation: Statement，Question，Command and Exclamation

  14.1 Statement

  14.2 Question

  14.3 Command

  14.4 Exclamation

Chapter Fifteen Transformation: Fronting and Postponement

  15.1 Fronting

  15.2 Inversion

  15.3 Postponement

  15.4 Fronting and postponement

Chapter Sixteen Transformation: Substitution and Ellipsis

  16.1 Substitution for noun phrases and their constituents

  16.2 Substitution for clauses or clause constituents

  16.3 Ellipsis

Chapter Seventeen Expansion: From NP to Clause

  17.1 NP1 realized by finite and non-finite clauses

  17.2 （NP4） realized by finite and non-finite clauses

  17.3 （NP2） realized by finite and non-finite clauses

  17.4 Finite and non-finite clauses as objects of prepositions

Chapter Eighteen Expansion : From（C）to Clause

  18.1 Nominal clauses as（Cs）

  18.2 Adjectival clauses as（Co）

Chapter Nineteen Expansion: From（M）to clause

  19.1 Clauses as（M1）

  19.2 Finite clauses as（M2）

  19.3 Non-finite clauses as （M2）

Chapter Twenty Expansion: From [ A ] to Clause（1）

  20.1 Semantic classification and description

Chapter Twenty-one Expansion: From[A] to Clause（2）

  21.1 Position in clause

  21.2 Dangling clause and its acceptability

  21.3 Syntactic classification

Chapter Twenty-two Expansion: Coordination and Apposition

  22.1 Syndetic and asyndetic coordination

  22.2 Syntactic features and semantic implications of coordinators

  22.3 Correlatives and some other points about coordination

  22.4 Apposition

Chapter Twenty-three Sentence Analysis: Phrase Structure Rules

  23.1 Phrase structure rules（1—3）

  23.2 Supplementary features provided by the phrase rules

  23.3 Practice of sentence analysis

Chapter Twenty-four Sentence Analysis: Transformed Sentences

  24.1 Transformed sentences

  24.2 Practice of sentence analysis

Chapter Twenty-five Sentence Analysis: Ambiguous Sentences

  25.1 Ambiguous sentences

  25.2 Practice of sentence analysis

Key to Exercises

Bibliography

Index