Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners

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Get the expert instruction and practice needed to take your English skills to the next level!

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

Contents
Preface ix
1 The sentence 1
Noun phrases 2
Verb phrases 2
Modifiers 3
2 The verb phrase 5
Auxiliary verbs 6
3 The verb 9
Linking verbs 9
Irregular verbs 10
Tenses 11
4 The progressive tenses 14
The present progressive 14
The past progressive 14
The future progressive 16
5 The perfect tenses 20
The present perfect 20
The past perfect 25
The future perfect 27
6 Modal auxiliaries 33
Shades of meaning 36
Special auxiliaries 41
7 The progressive forms of modal auxiliaries 43
8 The auxiliary verb do 48
Using do in questions 48
Using do in negative sentences 49

vi Contents
9 The passive voice 52
Using the passive 53
10 The passive form of modal auxiliaries 58
The future tense 58
The past tense 58
11 The stative passive 61
Adjectives and participles 61
The progressive form vs. the stative passive 63
Prepositions 65
12 Past participles with get 67
13 Participial adjectives 70
Present participles 70
Past participles 70
14 Subject-verb agreement 74
Third-person singular and plural 74
The verb be 76
Expressions of quantity 77
Collective nouns 79
Auxiliary verbs 81
Complex sentences 82
15 Agreement with nouns 84
Personal pronouns and collective nouns 84
Indefinite pronouns 87
Complex nouns 89
16 Using other 90
Adjectives 90
Pronouns 91
17 Gerunds 94
Distinguishing gerunds from present participles 95
The possessive 95
18 Conjunctions 97
Coordinating conjunctions 97
Conjunctions and their meaning 98
Correlative conjunctions 100
Subordinating conjunctions 104
Adverbs that act as conjunctions 108

Contents vii
19 Prepositions 110
Compound prepositions 110
Noun and pronoun objects 112
More than one prepositional phrase 114
20 Adjectives and adverbs 115
Adjectives 115
Adverbs 115
21 Filler subjects and impersonal subjects 120
Filler subjects 120
Impersonal subjects 121
22 Clauses 124
Independent clauses 124
Dependent clauses 124
Relative clauses 125
23 Punctuation 149
The period 149
The comma 150
The semicolon 152
The colon 154
The question mark 155
The exclamation point 155
The apostrophe 156
Quotation marks 158
The hyphen and the dash 159
Parentheses and brackets 160
24 Capitalization, numbers, and italics 162
Capitalization 162
Numbers 166
Italics 168
appendix Review exercises 170