Radolph Quirk

Sidney Greenbaum

A university Grammar of English

elements of grammar

elements of sentence

subject and predicate

parts of sentence

Operator

auxiliary

and predication

Range of operators

Complements and objects

Categories of adverbial

Categories of verb

Types of sentence structure

Element realization types

Parts of speech

Closed-system items

Open-class items

Stative and dynamic

Pro-forms

Question and negation

Negation and non-assertion