Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar for ESL Learners

✍ Scribed by Ed Swick

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 162
• Series: Practice Makes Perfect
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Continuing the success of the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series, Practice Makes Perfect English Grammar for ESL Learners features well-organized presentations, skill-building exercises, and a focus on practical conversational skills. Here you will find clear explanations accompanied by highlighted examples and boxed summaries of key points. You also get numerous exercises in a variety of formats, including fill-inthe-blank sentences and passages, translations, multiple-choice questions, sentence rewriting, and creative writing exercises. Answers to all questions are provided in the back of the book.

✦ Table of Contents

Terms of Use......Page 5
Want to learn more?......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Unit 1 Nouns......Page 11
Unit 2 Definite and Indefinite Articles......Page 16
Unit 3 Adjectives......Page 19
Unit 4 Personal Pronouns......Page 22
Unit 5 Verbs......Page 27
Unit 6 Auxiliary Verbs......Page 54
Unit 7 Passive Voice......Page 59
Unit 8 Subjunctive Mood......Page 63
Unit 9 Adverbs......Page 69
Unit 10 Contractions......Page 72
Unit 11 Plurals......Page 75
Unit 12 Punctuation......Page 78
Unit 13 Infinitives and Gerunds......Page 85
Unit 14 Relative Pronouns......Page 87
Unit 15 Reflexive Pronouns......Page 93
Unit 16 Possession......Page 96
Unit 17 Possessive Pronouns......Page 98
Unit 18 Prepositions......Page 102
Unit 19 Capitalization......Page 105
Unit 20 Comparative and Superlative Forms......Page 109
Unit 21 Conjunctions......Page 116
Unit 22 Interrogatives......Page 120
Unit 23 Negation......Page 125
Unit 24 Numbers......Page 130
Bad and Badly......Page 135
Few and A Few......Page 136
Lay and Lie......Page 137
Than and Then......Page 138
Who and Whom......Page 139
Appendix: Common Irregular Verbs......Page 143
Unit 2: Definite and Indefinite Articles......Page 145
Unit 4: Personal Pronouns......Page 146
Unit 5: Verbs......Page 147
Unit 6: Auxiliary Verbs......Page 150
Unit 8: Subjunctive Mood......Page 151
Unit 9: Adverbs......Page 152
Unit 12: Punctuation......Page 153
Unit 14: Relative Pronouns......Page 155
Unit 17: Possessive Pronouns......Page 156
Unit 19: Capitalization......Page 157
Unit 20: Comparative and Superlative Forms......Page 158
Unit 21: Conjunctions......Page 159
Unit 23: Negation......Page 160
Unit 25: Some Important Contrasts......Page 161