This book had two goals: to provide an introduction to transformational-generative grammar, placing it into a historical and philosophical context with other earlier linguistic traditions, and to provide a survey of the elements of English grammar from a transformational point of view. The text is intended for anyone who wishes to know the basis of transformational grammar, but it is especially intended for those who have a professional or personal need for a better acquaintance with English grammar--in particular, for prospective English teachers. Part one focuses on theories in linguistics and discusses such topics as linguistics as a science; language as innate, universal, abstract, and creative; patterns and rules; and deep structure, surface structure, and the sentence. Part two focuses on phrase structure grammar and discusses such topics as information in the lexicon; the noun phrase; the verb phrase, adverbial phrases and two-word verbs. Part three focuses on transformations and discusses such topics as sentences embedded within sentences, nominalized sentences, gerunds and infinitives, and conjoined sentences. (TS)