Scott Thornbury's 101 Grammar Questions: Ръководство за обучение на преподаватели

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A compact, user-friendly reference book addressing many of the kinds of questions about grammar that regularly confront teachers, both novice and experienced, when planning or executing their lessons. A glance at any web-site, discussion forum or social network shared by teachers of English suggests that teachers are constantly asking each other questions related to pedagogical grammar. These may simply be questions about terminology or categorisation (What's a clause?; Is like a preposition?), or they may seek to unravel subtle grammatical distinctions (What's the difference between for and since?) or explain persistent learner errors (Why in bed and not in the bed?). This book is designed to fulfil this basic, everyday need - as well as being a book that can be read for interest, and even pleasure, in its own right.

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Acknowledgements and Thanks
Why I wrote this book
General questions about grammar

• What counts as grammar?
• Does English have a lot of grammar?
• What is prescriptive grammar?
• Are British and American grammars really different?
• Is there a difference between written and spoken grammar?
• Is grammar learned in a set order?
• How is grammar best taught?
• What is the point of rules?
• Is there grammar beyond the sentence?
• Is there a core grammar?

Nouns, pronouns, articles, adjectives

• What's a noun phrase?
• Why is money uncountable?
• My family is or my family are?
• What are articles?
• What is the zero article?
• Is there a rule for the?
• We're getting a dog: any dog or a specific dog?
• What is the rule for some and any?
• Few and a few; fewer and less - when do we use them?
• Why is it on the bed, but in bed?
• When do we use one and not a/an?
• What do pronouns do?
• What part of speech is my and mine?
• Is there a gender-neutral pronoun in English?
• When do we use reflexive pronouns?
• This/That/It is not true. Which?
• Is it more common or commoner?
• Why is it very angry but not very furious?
• In train station, is train an adjective?
• The chair leg, the chair’s leg, or the leg of the chair?
• In fried eggs, is fried a verb or an adjective?
• Is there a rule for the order of adjectives?
• Is it OK to turn nouns into verbs?

Verb forms

• Do English verbs have conjugations?
• Why are some verbs irregular?
• Why is the third person -s hard to learn?
• What are auxiliary verbs?
• What does -ing do?
• Do you like playing or to play football?
• Does English have gerunds?
• What does do do?
• What is a phrasal verb?
• How many conditionals are there?
• They could have gone: is have gone the present perfect?

Verbs - tense and aspect

• How many tenses are there?
• Is the past tense just about past time?
• How do we talk about the future?
• Is it I don't have one or I haven’t one?
• What tense is have got?
• What does aspect mean?
• Why is the present perfect called the present perfect?
• When do you use the past, and when the present perfect?
• She's gone to Peru or She's been to Peru?
• What is progressive about the present progressive?
• Is I am loving it wrong?
• What's the difference between I've been working and I've worked?
• When do we use the past perfect?

Verbs - modality and voice

• What do modal verbs do?
• Can we use can for permission?
• Are ought to and have to modal verbs?
• Does used to have a present tense?
• What is the difference between going to and will?
• I'll call when I arrive: why not when I will arrive?
• When do we use shall?
• She won't eat meat: present or future?
• What is the past of must?
• What is the difference between you have to and you must?
• Is may the same as might?
• Is there a subjunctive in English?
• Why I wish I knew and not I wish I know?
• Should we avoid the passive?
• When do we use the long passive?
• What is the get-passive?

Syntax

• What are parts of speech?
• What makes a sentence?
• What is a clause?
• Why is He explained me it wrong?
• How many kinds of phrase are there?
• What is a complement?
• What is the difference between an adverb and an adverbial?
• Where do adverbials go?
• I gave her a book: what is the direct object?
• When can we leave out relative pronouns?
• What is a non-defining relative clause?
• Who or whom?
• What's wrong with I don't know where is the bank?
• When do we use backshift in reported speech?
• When can we omit that?
• What is inversion and when is it used?
• What is a question tag?
• Why is it What happened?, not What did happen?
• What does there mean in there's no one here?
• In it's raining, what does the it stand for?
• What is a cleft sentence?

Miscellaneous

• When do we use take and when bring?
• Why at 5 o'clock, but on Monday and in January?
• What is the difference between for and since?
• Are but and however the same?
• What's the difference between if and unless?
• What does up mean in drink it up?
• What part of speech is like?

Glossary
Index