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Essential English Grammar is a book for those who want to improve their English grammar skills. The explanations are easily accessible and illustrated by authentic examples from various sources, including students’ essays. The book further includes questions for discussion as well as exercises. The author addresses a number of typical problems facing learners of English, with a specific focus on areas important for producing correct academic texts, making the book particularly useful for shor...

Essential English Grammar is a book for those who want to improve their English grammar skills. The explanations are easily accessible and illustrated by authentic examples from various sources, including students’ essays. The book further includes questions for discussion as well as exercises. The author addresses a number of typical problems facing learners of English, with a specific focus on areas important for producing correct academic texts, making the book particularly useful for short courses in academic writing. Since it is written entirely in English Essential English Grammar can be used by international students. The website accompanying this second edition contains a digitalized version of the book as well as twelve audio lectures on particularly tricky issues.

    •  
      Preface
      • 1
         
        Grammar all around us
        • 1.1
          0
          Why learn grammar
        • 1.2
          1
          Grammar and the world
          • 1.2.1
            1
            Grammar has meaning
          • 1.2.2
            3
            Language variation and change
        • 1.3
          4
          How to use this book
        • 1.4
          6
          
A window on reality: using a language corpus
      • 2
        7
        Building a sentence
        • 8
          Questions for problem-solving and discussion
        • 2.1
          0
          
The building blocks of language
          • 2.1.1
            2
            Word classes
          • 2.1.2
            4
            Clause elements
          • 2.1.3
            7
            Grammatical phrases
        • 2.2
          9
          Sentence structure
          • 2.2.1
            9
            Main clauses and dependent clauses
          • 2.2.2
            1
            Avoiding run-on sentences
          • 2.2.3
            2
            Avoiding sentence fragments
        • 5
          Brief revision
        • 6
          Exercises
      • 3
        7
        Using nouns to talk about things around us
        • 8
          Questions for problem-solving and discussion
        • 3.1
          2
          
One or more? Singular and plural nouns in English
          • 3.1.1
            2
            
Formula and crisis: plurals borrowed from other languages
          • 3.1.2
            3
            
Sheep and Swiss: plurals without a plural marker
          • 3.1.3
            3
            
Pyjamas, scissors and police: nouns which are always plural
          • 3.1.4
            5
            
Damage and damages – different meanings in the singular and the plural
          • 3.1.5
            6
            Chapters 3 and 4 – logical plurals in English
        • 3.2
          7
          To count or not to count
        • 3.3
          9
          
Expressing ownership in English nouns: the genitive and the of construction
        • 3.4
          0
          
Expressing (in)definiteness: articles in English
          • 3.4.1
            0
            A method or the method
          • 3.4.2
            3
            In court – no article in English
          • 3.4.3
            4
            
Music or the music? General and specific meaning
        • 6
          Brief revision
        • 8
          Exercises
      • 4
        1
        Using pronouns to talk about things around us
        • 2
          Questions for problem-solving and discussion
        • 4.1
          5
          Personal pronouns
          • 4.1.1
            6
            Pronouns and gender in different languages
          • 4.1.2
            6
            Money → it, scissors → they
          • 4.1.3
            6
            There expressing existence
        • 4.2
          8
          Demonstrative pronouns
        • 4.3
          9
          Possessive pronouns
        • 4.4
          0
          Interrogative pronouns
          • 4.4.1
            0
            What or which
          • 4.4.2
            1
            Who or whom
          • 4.4.3
            1
            Whose or who’s
        • 4.5
          2
          Relative pronouns
          • 4.5.1
            2
            Which, who or whom
          • 4.5.2
            4
            That and the zero relative
          • 4.5.3
            4
            Whose and of which/whom
          • 4.5.4
            5
            Is the relative clause necessary or not
        • 4.6
          6
          Quantifying pronouns
          • 4.6.1
            6
            
Some and any – a matter of meaning rather than form
          • 4.6.2
            7
            
Anyone who or the one who – general or specific meaning
          • 4.6.3
            8
            
Everybody/everyone – plural meaning, singular form
          • 4.6.4
            9
            Each other
          • 4.6.5
            9
            Quantifiers and uncountable/plural nouns
          • 4.6.6
            0
            The whole of China
        • 1
          Brief revision
        • 3
          Exercises
      • 5
        5
        Using verbs to talk about what we do
        • 6
          Questions for problem-solving and discussion
        • 5.1
          1
          
Main verbs and auxiliary verbs
        • 5.2
          3
          The do-construction
        • 5.3
          4
          
I’m singing or I sing? Progressive and simple verb forms
          • 5.3.1
            5
            The progressive form (I’m singing
          • 5.3.2
            6
            The simple form (I sing
        • 5.4
          7
          
The study was made in 2010 – passives in English
        • 5.5
          8
          Can/could and will/would: the modal auxiliaries
          • 5.5.1
            9
            Can – could
          • 5.5.2
            00
            May – might
          • 5.5.3
            00
            Must – have /got/ to – ought to
          • 5.5.4
            01
            Will – would
          • 5.5.5
            01
            Shall – should
          • 5.5.6
            03
            Used to
        • 5.6
          04
          
Walk and go – regular and irregular verbs
        • 5.7
          05
          Verbs and time
          • 5.7.1
            05
            He loves but they love – subject-verb agreement in English
          • 5.7.2
            07
            Now and then – present and past
          • 5.7.3
            09
            Talking about the future in English
          • 5.7.4
            11
            If only … – conditional constructions
        • 5.8
          12
          
We decide to go but we avoid going: combining two main verbs in English
          • 5.8.1
            12
            Verbs followed by a to-infinitive
          • 5.8.2
            13
            Verbs followed by a bare infinitive
          • 5.8.3
            14
            Verbs followed by a verb in the ing-form
          • 5.8.4
            15
            Verbs belonging to more than one group
        • 5.9
          16
          Verb forms after prepositions
        • 20
          Brief revision
        • 22
          Exercises
      • 6
        25
        Using adjectives, adverbs and adverbials to describe things and situations
        • 26
          Questions for problem-solving and discussion
        • 6.1
          29
          Adjectives and adverbs
        • 6.2
          30
          
Good – better – best: Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
        • 6.3
          32
          The blind and the absurd – adjectives functioning as heads of noun phrases
        • 6.4
          35
          
British and American – nationality adjectives (and nouns
        • 6.5
          36
          Different adverb types
          • 6.5.1
            36
            
Happily and northwards – adverbs related to adjectives and nouns
          • 6.5.2
            39
            
Always and here – adverbs which are not related to adjectives and nouns
        • 6.6
          40
          Adverbs and adverbials
        • 6.7
          42
          Adverbials and word order
          • 6.7.1
            42
            Adverbials in initial position
          • 6.7.2
            43
            Adverbials in mid-position
          • 6.7.3
            44
            To never go – the split infinitive
        • 6.8
          44
          
However and moreover – adverbials linking parts of a text
        • 47
          Brief revision
        • 49
          Exercises
      • 7
        51
        Revision exercise and keys
        • 7.1
          52
          Revision exercise
        • 7.2
          53
          
Key to questions for problem-solving and discussion
        • 7.3
          67
          Key to exercises
        • 7.4
          75
          Key to revision exercise
    • 79
      Appendix
    • 80
      Appendix 1 – Some common irregular verbs
    • 84
      Appendix 2 – Nationality adjectives and nouns
    • 90
      Appendix 3 – Useful expressions including prepositions
    • 94
      Appendix 4 – Useful expressions including pronouns
    • 95
      Appendix 5 – Useful expressions including numerals
    • 97
      Suggestions for further reading
    • 99
      Index

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Information

Författare:
Maria Estling Vannestål
Språk:
Engelska
ISBN:
9789144114606
Utgivningsår:
2012
Revisionsår:
2016
Artikelnummer:
34106-02
Upplaga:
Andra
Sidantal:
200

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Maria Estling Vannestål, fil.dr i engelsk lingvistik och gymnasielärare i engelska, med många års erfarenhet av lärarutbildning och fortbildning. M...

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