Understanding and Using English Grammar (with Answer Key and Audio CDs) (4th Edition)

 

A classic developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced students of English, Understanding and Using English Grammar is a comprehensive reference grammar as well as a stimulating and teachable classroom text.

 

While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the Fourth Edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities. Some of the new features are:

• Innovative warm-up exercises that precede the grammar charts and introduce points to be taught
• Structure-based listening exercises ranging from casual speech to academic content
• Academic readings that highlight the targeted grammar structures
• Greatly expanded speaking practice with extensive pair, group and class work
• Corpus-informed syllabus that reflects the discourse patterns of spoken and written English
• Audio CDs and listening script in the back of the Student Book

The program components include the Student Book (Full Edition and Volume A and Volume B), Workbook (Full Edition and Volume A and Volume B), Chartbook, Teacher's Guide, and Test Bank. Click on "Course-Specific Resources" on the left for more details.

For an online workbook, see Understanding and Using English Grammar Interactive. 

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Painless Grammar (Barron's Painless)

Titles in Barron's extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects as they are taught on middle school and high school levels. These books are written for students who find the subjects unusually difficult and confusing--or in many cases, just plain boring. Barron's Painless Series authors' main goal is to clear up students' confusion and perk up their interest by emphasizing the intriguing and often exciting ways in which they can put each subject to practical use. Most of these books take a light-hearted approach to their subjects, often employing humor, and always presenting fun-learning exercises that include puzzles, games, and challenging "Brain Tickler" problems to solve. This title combines instruction in sentence structure with examination of amusing expressions, and gives tips on e-mail communication, editing a school paper, and more.

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A University Course in English Grammar

This comprehensive descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English as a Foreign Language. It is also suitable as background reading for course for literature and discourse studies, since grammatical usage is illustrated with authentic texts, many of them from literary sources.
Originally published by Prentice Hall in 1992, this text is now readily available world-wide from Routledge.
Key features include:
*chapters divided into modules of class-length material
*literary and other authentic texts to illustrate points of grammar
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English Grammar Workbook For Dummies

Get some good grammar practice-and start speaking and writing well
Good grammar is important, whether you want to advance your career, boost your GPA, or increase your SAT or ACT score. Practice is the key to improving your grammar skills, and that's what this workbook is all about. Honing speaking and writing skills through continued practice translates into everyday situations, such as writing papers, giving presentations, and communicating effectively in the workplace or classroom.
In English Grammar Workbook For Dummies you'll find hundreds of fun problems to help build your grammar muscles. Just turn to a topic you need help with-from punctuation and pronouns to possessives and parallel structure-and get out your pencil. With just a little practice every day, you'll be speaking correctly, writing confidently, and getting the recognition you deserve at work or at school.

• Hundreds of practice exercises and helpful explanations
• Explanations mirror teaching methods and classroom protocols
• Focused, modular content presented in step-by-step lessons

English Grammar Workbook For Dummies will empower you to structure sentences correctly, make subject and verbs agree, and use tricky punctuation marks such as commas, semicolons, and apostrophes without fear.
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The Grammar of English Grammars

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Possessive Pronouns

Here are the possessive pronouns in English:


1st person, singular—mine
3rd person, singular—his, hers, its
1st person, plural—ours
2nd person, sing./pl.—yours
3rd person, plural—theirs


In English, the gender and number of the possessor determines the form of the possessive pronoun:

–I have a bicycle. It's mine.
–They have some bread. It's theirs.


NOTE: Often the subject of the verb is not the person who owns the noun. Be careful about this. You must know the gender and number of the owner to be able to use possessive pronouns correctly:

–Are you driving his car or hers?
–We're driving hers.

Possessives

To indicate possession in English, you will use either the preposition of or the -'s form. The latter is used much more frequently in informal English.


–This is the office of the attorney.
–>This is the attorney's office.


–Here is the desk of Mr. Young.
–>Here is Mr. Young's desk.


–I know the family of Mrs. Jones.
–>I know Mrs. Jones's family.


Note the change in word order when the -'s form is used. The owner is listed first, followed by the thing owned.