Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar
This is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse, rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which users of language construct meaning, express viewpoints, and depict imageries using the conceptual, meaning-filled categories that underlie all of grammar. Written by a team of authors with years of experience teaching grammar to future teachers of English, this book puts grammar in the context of real language and illustrates grammar in use through an abundance of authentic data examples...
With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting lost in the complex specifics...
Ćwiczenia i testy gramatyczno-leksykalne (Grammar & Vocabulary Exercises and Tests)
The book comprises numerous grammar and vocabulary exercises divided into 8 sections, designed as revision material for learners at B2-C1 learners, preparing for FCE, CAE, as well as Matura exam (extended version).
The eight chapters include:
1. Tenses and verb forms; 2. Grammar; 3. Paraphrasing; 4. Gap filling; 5. Translations; 6. Word formation; 7. Vocabulary; 8. Collocations.
Apart from one chapter (translations), the book can be used by any English speaker.
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English (4th Edition)A revised and updated edition of the iconic grammar guide for the 21st century.
In this expanded and updated edition of Woe Is I, former editor at The New York Times Book Review Patricia T. O'Conner unties the knottiest grammar tangles with the same insight and humor that have charmed and enlightened readers of previous editions for years. With fresh insights into the rights, wrongs, and maybes of English grammar and usage, O'Conner offers in Woe Is I down-to-earth explanations and plain-English solutions to the language mysteries that bedevil all of us.
