TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hargis,Charles H.
TI  - English Syntax: an Outline for Teachers of English Language Learners
SN  - 9780398085254
AV  - RJ496.L35 H36 2008eb
U1  - 618.92855 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Springfield
PB  - Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD
KW  - Language disorders in children
KW  - Language
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Troubles du langage chez l'enfant
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Children's Health
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Pediatrics
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Syntax in language acquisition -- Sentence classes -- The auxiliary -- The expanded auxiliary -- The determiner system -- Nouns -- Pronouns -- The negative transformation -- Prepositional phrases -- Phrasal verbs -- Indirect objects -- Yes/no questions -- WH questions -- What --- Do questions -- Transitive verb complements -- The passive transformation -- Possessives -- The there transformation -- Relative clauses -- Noun modifiers -- Noun clauses -- Nominalizing transformations -- Cleft sentences -- Adverbial clauses and conjunctive adverbs -- Adverbs -- Comparative constructions -- Participial and absolute phrases -- Cause and effect -- Conjunctions -- Exclamations and commands and direct address -- Direct and indirect discourse -- Word order transformations -- Anaphora -- Syntax for basic math and science instruction -- Assessment -- Methods -- Some special difficulties -- Samples and analysis
N2  - It is remarkable that children learn all of the syntactic structures described in this book and with no instruction. Most children have mastered them by the time they start school. However, learning a language is subject to critically sensitive age restraints, and learning a second language becomes increasingly difficult as children age through this zone of sensitivity. Therefore, the goal of this updated and expanded edition of this book is to provide teachers with a detailed explicit knowledge of the syntactic system and the order in which it is learned. The material is presented clearly and
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