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Lester, Mark. Practice Makes Perfect Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners. McGraw-Hill, 2010.

Practice Makes Perfect Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners

Authors: Mark Lester

Published:  September 2010

eISBN: 9780071743334 0071743332 | ISBN: 9780071598798
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Noun plurals
  • The spelling and pronunciations of regular nouns
  • Irregular plurals of English and Latin origin
  • Noncount nouns
  • 2 Possessive nouns and personal pronouns
  • The correct forms of possessive nouns and personal pronouns
  • The different meanings of possessive nouns and personal pronouns
  • Possessive formed with of
  • 3 Articles and quantifiers
  • Articles
  • Quantifiers
  • 4 Adjectives
  • Forming the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives
  • Deriving adjectives from verb participles
  • 5 Verb forms and tenses
  • Rule #1: The first verb, and only the first verb, is tensed
  • Rule #2: All verb constructions except for the simple present and simple past consist of two verb components
  • Rule #3: If both the perfect and the progressive aspects are used in the same verb sequence, the perfect always comes first
  • 6 Talking about present time
  • The present and present progressive tenses
  • The present perfect tense
  • 7 Talking about past time
  • The past tense
  • The past perfect tense
  • 8 Talking about future time
  • Using the present and present progressive tenses for future time
  • 9 Causative verbs
  • Older causative verbs
  • More modern causative verbs
  • 10 The passive
  • How the be passive is formed
  • Reasons for deleting the agent
  • Get passives
  • 11 The structure of adjective clauses
  • The internal structure of adjective clauses
  • Creating and moving relative pronouns
  • Deleting relative pronouns
  • Moving objects of prepositions
  • 12 Restrictive and nonrestrictive adjective clauses
  • The differences in meaning between restrictive and nonrestrictive adjective clauses
  • The reduction of adjective clauses to participial phrases
  • 13 Gerunds
  • Identifying gerunds
  • Determining the expressed and unexpressed subjects of gerunds
  • 14 Infinitives
  • Identifying infinitives
  • Determining the expressed and unexpressed subjects of infinitives
  • 15 Noun clauses
  • Where noun clauses can be used
  • That clauses
  • Wh- clauses
  • Answer key