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Torres-Gouzerh, Robin. Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners. McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners

Authors: Robin Torres-Gouzerh

Published:  May 2008

eISBN: 9780071771696 0071771697 | ISBN: 9780071462938
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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 The sentence
  • Noun phrases
  • Verb phrases
  • Modifiers
  • 2 The verb phrase
  • Auxiliary verbs
  • 3 The verb
  • Linking verbs
  • Irregular verbs
  • Tenses
  • 4 The progressive tenses
  • The present progressive
  • The past progressive
  • The future progressive
  • 5 The perfect tenses
  • The present perfect
  • The past perfect
  • The future perfect
  • 6 Modal auxiliaries
  • Shades of meaning
  • Special auxiliaries
  • 7 The progressive forms of modal auxiliaries
  • 8 The auxiliary verb do
  • Using do in questions
  • Using do in negative sentences
  • 9 The passive voice
  • Using the passive
  • 10 The passive form of modal auxiliaries
  • The future tense
  • The past tense
  • 11 The stative passive
  • Adjectives and participles
  • The progressive form vs. the stative passive
  • Prepositions
  • 12 Past participles with get
  • 13 Participial adjectives
  • Present participles
  • Past participles
  • 14 Subject-verb agreement
  • Third-person singular and plural
  • The verb be
  • Expressions of quantity
  • Collective nouns
  • Auxiliary verbs
  • Complex sentences
  • 15 Agreement with nouns
  • Personal pronouns and collective nouns
  • Indefinite pronouns
  • Complex nouns
  • 16 Using other
  • Adjectives
  • Pronouns
  • 17 Gerunds
  • Distinguishing gerunds from present participles
  • The possessive
  • 18 Conjunctions
  • Coordinating conjunctions
  • Conjunctions and their meaning
  • Correlative conjunctions
  • Subordinating conjunctions
  • Adverbs that act as conjunctions
  • 19 Prepositions
  • Compound prepositions
  • Noun and pronoun objects
  • More than one prepositional phrase
  • 20 Adjectives and adverbs
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • 21 Filler subjects and impersonal subjects
  • Filler subjects
  • Impersonal subjects
  • 22 Clauses
  • Independent clauses
  • Dependent clauses
  • Relative clauses
  • 23 Punctuation
  • The period
  • The comma
  • The semicolon
  • The colon
  • The question mark
  • The exclamation point
  • The apostrophe
  • Quotation marks
  • The hyphen and the dash
  • Parentheses and brackets
  • 24 Capitalization, numbers, and italics
  • Capitalization
  • Numbers
  • Italics
  • Appendix: Review exercises
  • Answer key