Grammar for Teachers

Andrea DeCapua, Ed.D., is an educator, researcher, and educational consultant. She has over thirty years' experience in the field, having held academic appointments at various institutions, most recently at New York University and University of North Florida. Her interests include second language acquisition, culture, and pedagogy for second language learners. Dr.DeCapua specializes in teacher training for teachers of language learners and in developing intercultural awareness for classrooms in a global society. She has published numerous articles on a variety of topics ranging from grammar to sociolinguistics to addressing the needs of struggling language low-literacy learners.  She is also the author of eight pedagogical texts, including the second edition of Grammar for Teachers: A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers, published by Springer. For more information see the author's website www.andreadecapua.com or contact her atinformation@malpeducation.com.

• Chapter 1  What Is Grammar?.- Chapter 2   Morphology: Words and Their Parts.- Chapter 3  The Noun Phrase.- Chapter 4  Adjectives and Adverbs.- Chapter 5 Overview of Verbs and Verb Phrases: The Heart of the Sentence.- Chapter 6 Time, Tense, and Aspect of Verbs.- Chapter 7  Modal Auxiliary Verbs and Related Structures.- Chapter 8 Basic Sentence Patterns and Major Variations.- Chapter 9 Compound Sentences and Introduction to Complex Sentences: Adverbial Clauses.- Chapter 10 Complex Sentences Continued: Relative Clauses.- Chapter 11 Complex Sentences Continued: Noun Clauses.- Chapter 12 Verbal Constructions.- Glossary.- Appendices.