Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar for ESL Learners, Third Edition Master grammar with this bestselling workbook for learners of English Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar for ESL Learners is the go-to guide for clear, precise explanations of all aspects of English grammar. As a beginning learner of English, you might find that grammar concepts can be confusing. To make progress with your English skills, you need guidance through tricky grammar areas. This book will help develop mastery.
Get on the Fast Track to Mastering the English Grammar System!Confident use of grammar is an essential foundation for learning English. English Grammar Drills will help you lay this foundation through clear explanations and rigorous practice. Your language skills will be strengthened as you become more fluent in your use of the correct tenses and verb forms.
A step-by-step approach guides students through the writing process, from pre-writing to revision. Clear explanations and presentations help students apply key concepts and rules. Rigorous development of sentence structure, grammar, and mechanics improves writing skills. Self-editing and peer-editing worksheets motivate students to revise their work.
Level 1 helps beginning students to write sentences and paragraphs. The text's time-proven approach integrates sentence structure, paragraph organization, grammar, mechanics, vocabulary, and the writing process.
Tackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this textbook brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of different clausal structures in written and spoken texts. It also draws attention to variation in standard written English, to the grammatical structures and discourse devices in spoken English, and to ongoing changes in English grammar. It focuses on the concepts of descriptive grammar as extended and refined over the last fifty years. This is a practical yet flexible reference that you can return to again and again, whether it be for learning, research or teaching.
The book is intended to be used by senior students of linguistics departments. It covers the following topics: short history of theoretical grammar, the grammar of IC, the origin and development of transformational grammar, transformations in simple sentences and sentence sequences, transformations of nominalisation.
