PART ONE：MEANING IN SPEECH AND WRITING

1．Meaning and context

2．Clusters

3．Speech Patterns－Transition

4．Speech Patterns－Stress

5．Speech Patterns－Pitch

PART TWO：SENTENCE PATTERNS

6．Labels，Headings and Messages

7．Headings and Messages

8．Two-item Predications

9．Nominal Headwords

10．Verb Clusters

11．Phrasal Verbs

12．Agreement of Number

13．Three-item Predications

14．Subject Complements and Direct Objects

15．Subject Complements

16．Direct and Indirect Objects

17．Object Complements

18．Five Basic Patterns

19．Verbids

20．Markers

21．Orders and Requests

22．Markers－Ambiguity

23．Ellipsis

24．Passive Verbs

PART THREE：WORD-ORDER

25．Variation of S+V Order

26．Variation of S+V+SC Order

27．Variation of S+V+DO Order

28．Variation of S+V+IO+DO Order

29．Variation of S+V+DO+OC Order

30．Object Complements and Phrasal Verbs

31．Proximity

32．Proximity－Pronominals

PART FOUR：ADJUNCTS

33．Adnominals

34．Types of Adnominal Adjunct

35．Adnominals of Place and Time

36．Genitive (Possessive) Adnominals

37．Adnominal Phrases and Clauses

38．Adnominal Clauses

39．Adnominals－Proximity

40．Restrictive and Non-restrictive Adnominal Clauses

41．Adverbals

42．Movable Adverbals

43．Adverbals and Adnominals－Item-order

44．Adverbals and Adnominals－Ambiguity

45．Degree-words

46．Adverbal Clauses

47．Phrasal Verbs and Adverbal Phrases

48．Participle Phrases

49．Dangling Participles

50．Infinitive Adjuncts

PART FIVE：NOMINALS

51．Nominal Phrases－Infinitives，Gerunds

52．Nominal Clauses

53．Nominal Clauses－Reported Speech

54．Apposition

PART SIX：STRUCTURES

55．Relationships and Constructions

56．Subordination

57．Multiple Items

58．Harnessing Multiple Items

59．Clause Analysis

60．Clause Structures

61．Sentence Analysis

62．Balanced Sentences

63．Loose and Suspended Sentences

64．Mixed Sentences

65．Repetition of Patterns

66．Variety of Patterns

Index