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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
Author(s): Robin Torres-Gouzerh
Series: Practice Makes Perfect
Edition: 3
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 256
Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
1 The sentence......Page 12
Verb phrases......Page 13
Modifiers......Page 14
2 The verb phrase......Page 16
Auxiliary verbs......Page 17
Linking verbs......Page 20
Irregular verbs......Page 21
Tenses......Page 22
The past progressive......Page 25
The future progressive......Page 27
The present perfect......Page 31
The past perfect......Page 36
The future perfect......Page 38
6 Modal auxiliaries......Page 44
Shades of meaning......Page 47
Special auxiliaries......Page 52
7 The progressive forms of modal auxiliaries......Page 54
Using do in questions......Page 59
Using do in negative sentences......Page 60
9 The passive voice......Page 63
Using the passive......Page 64
The past tense......Page 69
Adjectives and participles......Page 72
The progressive form vs. the stative passive......Page 74
Prepositions......Page 76
12 Past participles with get......Page 78
Past participles......Page 81
Third-person singular and plural......Page 85
The verb be......Page 87
Expressions of quantity......Page 88
Collective nouns......Page 90
Auxiliary verbs......Page 92
Complex sentences......Page 93
Personal pronouns and collective nouns......Page 95
Indefinite pronouns......Page 98
Complex nouns......Page 100
Adjectives......Page 101
Pronouns......Page 102
17 Gerunds......Page 105
The possessive......Page 106
Coordinating conjunctions......Page 108
Conjunctions and their meaning......Page 109
Correlative conjunctions......Page 111
Subordinating conjunctions......Page 115
Adverbs that act as conjunctions......Page 119
Compound prepositions......Page 121
Noun and pronoun objects......Page 123
More than one prepositional phrase......Page 125
Adverbs......Page 126
Filler subjects......Page 131
Impersonal subjects......Page 132
Dependent clauses......Page 135
Relative clauses......Page 136
The period......Page 160
The comma......Page 161
The semicolon......Page 163
The colon......Page 165
The exclamation point......Page 166
The apostrophe......Page 167
Quotation marks......Page 169
The hyphen and the dash......Page 170
Parentheses and brackets......Page 171
Capitalization......Page 173
Numbers......Page 177
Italics......Page 179
APPENDIX Review exercises......Page 181
Answer key......Page 221
