本书迥异于以灌输为主的传统语法教科书，其编写融入了最新的教学理念和编者对语法教学的深刻理解，内容设计富有创意。它不仅继承了传统英语语法的优点，而且吸收了现代语言学的最新成果；融枯燥的英语语法规则于真实多样而生动的语篇之中，既增强了可读性和实用性，又突显了交际能力的培养；研究型练习设计富于启发性，可以帮助读者学习掌握语法知识，继而提高读者的英语表达能力。该教程带给学生的将不仅仅是语法知识和能力，更有全新的学习体验和创新思维能力。

Unit 1 Preliminaries about Grammar

 Pre-Class Reading/1

 1. 1 Language and its grammar/1

 1.2 Grammatical knowledge/1

 1.3 Grammatical competence/2

 1.4 Learning English grammar/3

 In-Class Activities/4

 Post-Class Tasks/7

 Project Work/7

Part One The Structure of English Sentences

Unit 2 Constructing English Sentences

 Pre-Class Reading/13

 2.1 Sentence components in English/13

 2.2 Sentence patterns in English/14

 2.3 Movements of sentence components/15

 In-Class Activities/16

 Post-Class Tasks/20

 Project Work/22

Unit 3 Functional Taxonomy of English Sentences

 Pre-Class Reading/23

 3.1 Declarative sentences in English/23

 3.2 Interrogative sentences in English/23

 3.3 Imperative sentences in English/25

 3.4 Exclamatory sentences in English/25

 In-Class Activities/26

 Post-Class Tasks/31

 Project Work/33

Unit 4 Grammatical Markers in English Sentences

 Pre-Class Reading/34

 4.1 The plurality marker/34

 4.2 The possessive case marker/35

 4.3 The tense/aspect markers/36

 4.4 Degree markers for adjectives/adverbs/37

 In-Class Activities/38

 Post-Class Tasks/41

 Project Work/43

Part Two The Subject and the Object

Unit 5 The Subject

 Pre-Class Reading/47

 5.1 The form choices of the subject/47

 5.2 The meaning choices of the subject/48

 5.3 The subject-predicate agreement in number/49

 In-Class Activities/50

 Post-Class Tasks/54

 Project Work/58

Unit 6 The Object

 Pre-Class Reading/59

 6.1 Defining the object/59

 6.2 The form choices of the object/60

 6.3 The meaning choices of the object/61

 In-Class Activities/62

 Post-Class Tasks/64

 Project Work/67

Unit 7 Determiners in Noun Phrases

 Pre-Class Reading/68

 7.1 Defining the notion of "determiner"/68

 7.2 Types of determiners/69

 7.3 The co-occurrence of determiners/70

 In-Class Activities/71

 Post-Class Tasks/76

 Project Work/80

Unit 8 Attributives: Modifiers in Noun Phrases

 Pre-Class Reading/81

 8.1 The definition of the attributive/81

 8.2 The form choices of the attributive/82

 8.3 The relative clause/84-

 8.4 Ordering modifiers in noun phrases/87

 In-Class Activities/88

 Post-Class Tasks/92

 Project Work/96

Part Three The Predicate and Related Grammatical Categories

Unit 9 The Terse and Aspect Systems

 Pre-Class Reading/99

 9.1 The predicate/99

 9.2 The tense of the predicate/100

 9.3 The aspect of the predicate/101

 9.4 Present tenses/102

 9.5 Past tenses/104

 9.6 Future times/104

 In-Class Activities/106

 Post-Class Tasks/110

 Project Work/115

Unit 10 The Mood System

 Pre-Class Reading/117

 10.1 Mood as a grammatical category/117

 10.2 Form choices of the subjunctive mood/118

 10.3 Function choices of the subjunctive mood/120

 In-Class Activities/122

 Post-Class Tasks/126

 Project Work/130

Unit 11 The Modality System

 Pre-Class Reading/131

 11. 1 Types of modal verbs/131

 11.2 Categories of modality/132

 11.3 Modality and po]iteness/132

 In-Class Activities/133

 Post-Class Tasks/138

 Project Work/140

Part Four The Adverbial and the Complement

Unit 12 The Adverbial

 Pre-Class Reading/143

 12.1 The definition of the adverbial/143

 12.2 The form choices of the adverbial/143

 12.3 Types of the adverbials/144

 12.4 Adverbial clauses/146

 In-Class Activities/148

 Post-Class Tasks/153

 Project Work/156

Unit 13 The Complement

 Pre-Class Reading/157

 13.1 Defining the complement/157

 13.2 The form choices of the subject complement/158

 13.3 The form choices of the object complement/160

 In-Class Activities/161

 Post-Class Tasks/166

 Project Work/169

Part Five Grammar and Text

Unit 14 Inversion

 Pre-Class Reading/173

 14.1 Defining inversion/173

 14.2 Grammatical inversion/174

 14.3 Rhetorical inversion/175

 In-Class Activities/177

 Post-Class Tasks/181

 Project Work/183

Unit 15 Ellipsis and Substitution

 Pre-Class Reading/184

 15.1 Defining ellipsis/184

 15.2 Grammatical ellipsis/185

 15.3 Rhetorical ellipsis/187

 15.4 Substitution/188

 In-Class Activities/189

 Post-Class Tasks/192

 Project Work/196

Unit 16 Cohesion in English Texts

 Pre-Class Reading/197

 16.1 Defining cohesion/197

 16.2 Types of cohesive devices/198

 16.3 Choice of cohesive devices/202

 In-Class Activities/203

 Post-Class Tasks/206

 Project Work/209

References/210

Glossary/213