
Instead, it studies how words work and what they do in sentences.

It does not focus on rules and definitions. The book is designed to give learners of English a basic grammar foundation. Your grammar skills will improve almost by themselves! Learning grammar is easy if you know how! Read these amusing short stories and you will see just what I mean. These and many other points of English grammar are explained in the book, and there are exercises on each point. ☞What is difference between ‘like’ and ‘as’?

☞When do we say ‘used to do’ and when do we say ‘used to doing’? ☞What is the difference between ‘I did’ and ‘I have done’? The book will be useful for you if you are not sure of the answer to questions like these: It is written for you to use without a teacher. This book is for students who want help with English grammar. Two key features separate this book from others: its clear organization and its user-friendly, accessible language.īoth students and teachers appreciate the self-teaching quality that incremental exercises provide throughout the chapters, with answers at the end of the book. The book can be used in any order depending on the personal needs of the students and the exercises are not arranged in order of increasing difficulty, but are marked with asterisks to indicate their relative degree of difficulty.Ī practical blend of the most useful elements of both traditional and new linguistic grammar, the text emphasizes whole structures, most specifically the ten basic sentence patterns introduced in Chapter 3.
