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SENTENCES AND THEIR PARTS: LEXIS AND GRAMMAR
The chapters in Part II cover the core information that NNSs need to be taught about English sentence and text construction. Chapter 4 introduces the regularities of English sentences and their elements—sentence slots—that can be taught to and used by students to efficiently improve their writing. Chapters 5 through 9 delve into the major components that fill the slots in sentences, how they are used, and how they can be effectively taught to NNS students. Chapters 5 and 6 cover nouns, noun phrases, and pronouns. Chapters 7 and 8 discuss verb tenses and voice, and lexical classes and func- tions of verbs. Chapter 9 describes the types and functions of adjectives and adverbs, as well as adjective and adverb phrases, in academic writing.
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