1. Grammar in the schools 2. The origins of modern linguistics 3. The last two decades in linguistics 4. English grammar 5. Structure and system 6. Part of speech 7. Syntactic relations 8. Structure signals 9. Relation and process 10. Generative grammar 11. Clause patterns 12. Joining clauses 13. Language variation 14. Changing syntactic patterns 15. Language comparison 16. Literary form and style 17. Clarity redundancy and ambiguity 18. The rehabilitation of grammar