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Ótimo estado de conservação.
Chapters: introduction, grammatical metalanguage, the lexicon, the copula and subject-verb agreement, introduction to phrase structure, more phrase structure rules, the tense and aspect system, modal auxiliares and related phrasal forms, the tense-aspect-modality system in discourse, negation, yes/no questions, imperatives, wh-questions, other structures that look like questions, articles, reference and possession, partitives collectives and quantifiers, the passive voice, sentences with indirect objects, adjectives, prepositions, phrasal verbs, nonreferenthal it and there as subjects, coordinating conjunction, adverbals, logical connectors, conditional sentences, introduction to relative clauses, more on relative clauses, focus and emphasis, complementation, other aspects of complementation and embedded clauses, reported spech and writing, degree comparatives and equatives, degree complements and superlatives. Appendix: answers to exercises. Indexes.