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  2. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CamGEL [n 1]) is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Huddleston was the only author to work on every chapter. It was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002 and has been cited more than 8,000 times. [1]

  3. English coordinators - Wikipedia

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    The modifier and the complement depend on the head. In a coordination, though, the coordinated elements are equal in status, and so neither is the head. Similarly, the coordinator is only a subordinate element, not the head of the coordination.

  4. List of English determiners - Wikipedia

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    a; a few; a little; all; an; another; any; anybody; anyone; anything; anywhere; both; certain (also adjective) each; either; enough; every; everybody; everyone ...

  5. Verbless clause - Wikipedia

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    Neither A comprehensive grammar of the English language [4]: 1068 norThe Cambridge grammar of the English language offer any speculations about the structure(s) of such clauses. The latter says, without hedging, "the head of a clause (the predicate) is realised by a VP."

  6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Collins COBUILD – English Grammar London: Collins ISBN 0-00-370257-X second edition, 2005 ISBN 0-00-718387-9. Huddleston and Pullman say they found this grammar 'useful' in their Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, p. 1765. A CD-Rom version of the 1st edition is available in the Collins COBUILD Resource Pack ISBN 0-00-716921-3

  7. English clause syntax - Wikipedia

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    Neither A comprehensive grammar of the English language [17]: 1068 norThe Cambridge grammar of the English language offer any speculations about the structure(s) of such clauses. The latter says, without hedging, "the head of a clause (the predicate) is realised by a VP."

  8. English determiners - Wikipedia

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    For example, Collins COBUILD Grammar [17]: 61 classifies them as determiners while CGEL classify them as pronouns [1]: 357 and A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language has them dually classified as determiners [18]: 253 and as pronouns in determinative function. [18]: 361

  9. English nouns - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language argues that English has a "weakly grammaticalized" gender, which is based only on pronoun agreement. This gender system involves two subsystems: one involving the distinctions between the personal pronouns he , she , and it and another involving the distinctions between the relative pronouns who and ...