McGraw-Hill's Essential ESL Grammar: A Hnadbook for Intermediate and Advanced ESL StudentsMaster American English and communicate with confidence As an experienced student of English, you know the language can be a tricky one to learn with its complex grammar and its many "exceptions to the rule" rules. Written by ESL guru Mark Lester--author of Grammar and Usage in the Classroom--this authoritative reference unravels these mysteries so you can take your English-language skills to the next level. You'll gain the confidence to speak English in any setting: in the workplace, at school, in social situations, and at home. Master those troublesome subjects that baffle even native speakers of English: |
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adjective clause adverb clauses adverb question answer appositive base form boss causative verb Chapter comma comparative and superlative compare the following complement type Conjunctive adverbs coordinating conjunction count nouns definite article delete English example finite verb following sentences future gerund grammatical independent clauses indirect object infinitive phrases intransitive verb Inverted Yes-No Question italics John kids linking verbs main sentence main verb Mark Lester Mary meaning modal auxiliary verbs movie negative noncount nouns nonnative speakers nonrestrictive normal noun clauses noun phrase object complement object of preposition participial phrase past participle past tense plays the role Plural count possessive noun possessive pronoun predicate adjectives predicate nominative prepositional phrase present participle present progressive present tense problem proper nouns relative pronoun role of subject scheduled the meeting separable phrasal verbs Shifted statement subject noun phrase talk to/for paraphrase transitive phrasal verbs ungrammatical verb forms verbs that take words
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Page 160 - I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Page 317 - When the subject performs the action denoted by the verb, the verb is said to be in the active voice.
Page 78 - Singular Plural First person myself ourselves Second person yourself yourselves Third person himself herself themselves itself 3.
Page 3 - ... referring to the political rather than simply geographical divisions of the Continent. Similarly, Central Europe is capitalized when referring to the political division of World War I. In American Civil War contexts, Southerner) and Northerner) are capitalized. 7.36 Popular names. Popular and legendary names of places are usually capitalized and not enclosed in quotation marks : Albion Back Bay (Boston) Badlands (North Dakota) Bay Area (San Francisco) the Badger State Benelux countries Cathay...
Page 9 - The following nouns ending in /, or fe, form the plural by changing their endings into ves : beef, beeves ; calf, calves ; elf, elves ; half, halves ; knife, knives ; leaf, leaves ; life, lives ; loaf, loaves ; self, selves ; sheaf, sheaves ; shelf, shelves ; thief, thieves ; wife, wives ; wolf, wolves.
Page 317 - If the subject does perform the action of the verb, the verb is said to be in the active voice.
Page 187 - These parts are the present tense, the past tense, the past participle, and the present participle. The principal parts of verbs are designed to tell the time of an action or state of being.
Page 133 - ... (present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, future perfect, present progressive, past progressive, and future progressive).