Practice Makes Perfect English Problem Solver (EBOOK): With 110 Exercises

✍ Scribed by Swick, Ed

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; McGraw-Hill Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 210
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Tackle head-on all the hurdles that you find hard about learning English as an ESL student"Practice Makes Perfect: English Problem Solver" doesn't pretend that learning English is easy. Instead of covering the entirety of the language, it hones in on those areas where you might have difficulty--areas such as definite vs. indefinite articles, little vs. few, using "get," and restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses.Features: A variety of extensive exercises for practicePractical and high-frequency vocabularyAnswer key provided for reference and quick feedbackDon't sweat those troublesome grammar areas any more! "Practice Makes Perfect: English Problem Solver" is your perfect learning tool for ironing out your troubles.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover --
Title Page --
Copyright Page --
Contents --
Preface --
1. Definite versus indefinite articles --
Definite articles --
Indefinite articles --
Plural articles --
2. Capitalization and punctuation --
Capitalization --
Punctuation --
3. Homophones --
4. Verb oddities --
Be --
Have --
Verbs ending in a vowel --
Present participles --
5. Tense usage --
Present tense --
Past tense --
Perfect tenses --
Future tense --
Going --
Adverbs --
6. Passive versus static passive --
Passive voice --
Other auxiliaries --
Indirect objects --
Static passive --
7. Subject-verb agreement And, or, and nor --
Number --
All, none, and some --
Time and money --
Scissors and politics --
Collective nouns --
8. Verbs and prepositions --
To --
Location prepositions --
About, for, and to --
9. Subjunctive --
Present subjunctive --
Past subjunctive --
If --
10. Little versus few --
Little --
Few --
Comparative --
11. Comparatives and superlatives --
Comparatives --
Superlatives --
12. Pronoun varieties --
Personal pronouns --
Singular or plural verbs --
Other pronoun forms --
Quantifiers --
13. Determiners and adverbs of degree --
Demonstratives --
Possessives Ordinal numbers and quantifiers --
Adverbs of degree --
14. Gerunds, infinitives, and participles --
Gerunds --
Infinitives --
Participles --
15. Auxiliaries --
Should and would --
Should have and would have --
Modals --
Modals and past participles --
16. Using get --
Passive voice --
17. Restrictive and nonrestrictive relative clauses --
Combining sentences --
Prepositions --
Restrictive relative clauses --
Nonrestrictive relative clauses --
18. Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions --
Subordinating conjunctions --
The conjunction as --
The conjunction that --
The conjunction because 19. Phrasal verbs --
Be --
Check --
Do --
Figure --
Fill --
Give --
Go --
Keep --
Let --
Make --
Run --
Set --
Stand --
Take --
Turn --
Walk --
20. Writing --
Appendix: Homophones --
Answer key