This work provides second language teachers with a functional description of English grammar a communicative resource. It explores ways in which English grammar enables speakers and writers to represent their experience of the world. and Happening I; 5 Doing and Happening II; 6 Thinking Wanting and Saying; 7 Being and Having; 8 Interacting; 9 Representing Time; 10 Judgments and Attitudes; 11 Organizing Messages; 12 Coming Messages; 13 Some Issues in the Learning and Teaching of Grammar.

Contents: 1 Some Basics; 2 Representing Things I; 3 Representing Things II; 4 Doing and Happening I; 5 Doing and Happening II; 6 Thinking Wanting and Saying; 7 Being and Having; 8 Interacting; 9 Representing Time; 10 Judgments and Attitudes; 11 Organizing Messages; 12 Coming Messages; 13 Some Issues in the Learning and Teaching of Grammar.