Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners, Third Edition
McGraw-Hill Education (Verlag)
978-1-260-45345-4 (ISBN)
Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners helps you take your English grammar skills to a higher level and gives you the confidence to speak and write in your new language. This accessible workbook leads you through English grammar using concise, easy-to-understand language designed to keep you focused on achieving your goal of total fluency.
You’ll learn how to master such tricky topics as verbs, modal, auxiliaries, the passive voice, participial adjectives, subject-verb agreement, and more. The book includes tons of practice and review exercises. Plus, the interactive quizzes available on the app make it easy for you to study on-the-go.
Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners, 3rd Edition features: •Example sentences that illustrate and explain each grammatical point•Guidance and instruction from an expert in ESL learning •Dozens of exercises to suit your learning style•A detailed answer key for quick, easy progress checks•New to this edition: Interactive quizzes via app and additional review exercises in the book
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Preface
1 The sentence
Noun phrases
Verb phrases
Modifiers
2 The verb phrase
3 The verb
Linking verbs
Irregular verbs
Tenses
4 The progressive tenses
The present progressive
The past progressive
The future progressive
5. The perfect tenses
The present perfect
The past perfect
The future perfect
6 Modal auxiliaries
Shades of meaning
Special auxiliaries
7 The progressive forms of modal auxiliaries
8 The auxiliary do
Using do in questions
Using do in negative sentences
9 The passive voice
Using the passive
10 The passive form of modal auxiliaries
The future tense
The past tense
11 The stative passive
Adjectives and participles
The progressive form vs. the stative passive
Prepositions
12 Past participles with get
13 Participal adjectives
Present participles
Past participles
14 Subject-verb agreement
Third-person singular and plural
The verb be
Expressions of quantity
Collective nouns
Auxiliary verbs
Complex sentences
15 Agreement with nouns
Personal pronouns and collective nouns
Indefinite pronouns
Complex nouns
16 Using other
Adjectives Pronouns
17 Gerunds
Distinguishing gerunds from present participles
The possessive
18 Conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions
Conjunctions and their meaning
Correlative conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions
Adverbs that act as conjunctions
19 Prepositions
Compound prepositions
Noun and pronoun objects
More than one prepositional phrase
20 Adjectives and adverbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
21 Filler subjects and impersonal subjects
Filler subjects
Impersonal subjects
22 Clauses
Independent clauses
Dependent clauses
Relative clauses
23 Punctuation
The period
The comma
The semicolon
The colon
The question mark
The exclamation point
The apostrophe
Quotation marks
The hyphen and the dash
Parentheses and brackets
24 Capitalization, numbers, and italics
Capitalization
Numbers
Italics
Appendix: Review exercises
Answer key
McGraw-Hill Language Lab app:
240 Progress Checks and Review Quizzes (unique to app)
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.04.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | OH |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 274 mm |
| Gewicht | 617 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-260-45345-6 / 1260453456 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-260-45345-4 / 9781260453454 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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