Lock, Graham. <br/><br/>
Functional english grammar :  An introduction for second langauge teachers / 
Graham Lock 
 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  c1996 
 - xiii, 296 pages ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Chapter1. Some basic concept -- Chapter2. Representing things I: Nouns and noun group -- Chapter3. Representing things II: More on noun group -- Chapter4. Doing and happening I: The transitivity of action processes -- Chapter5. Doing and happening II: Ergativity, phrasal verbs and phase -- Chapter6. Seeing, liking, thinking, wanting and saying: The transitivity of mental and verbal processes -- Chapter7. Being and having: The transitivity of relational and existential processes -- Chapter8. Representing time: Tense and temporal adjunctions -- Chapter9. Interaction: Speech acts and mood -- Chapter10. Expressing judgements and attitudes: Modal auxiliaries and modality -- Chapter11. Organizing message: Theme and focus -- Chapter12. Combining message: Complex sentences -- Chapter13. Issues in the learning and teaching of grammar . 
<br/><br/> This book presents a functional approach to grammar -- that is, grammar is viewed as a resource for creating meaning in spoken and written discourse. This is very different from the view of grammar as a set of rules, rules that are to be applied even when they seem arbitrary. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>521459222 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>ENGLISH LANGUAGE
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE 1128.A2 .L54 1996