Practice Makes Perfect English Problem Solver (EBOOK): With 110 Exercises 9780071791250, 0071791256, 9780071791243, 0071791248
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English Pages 210 Year 2013
Table of contents :
Cover --
Title Page --
Copyright Page --
Contents --
Preface --
1. Definite versus indefinite articles --
Definite articles --
Indefinite articles --
Plural articles --
2. Capitalization and punctuation --
Capitalization --
Punctuation --
3. Homophones --
4. Verb oddities --
Be --
Have --
Verbs ending in a vowel --
Present participles --
5. Tense usage --
Present tense --
Past tense --
Perfect tenses --
Future tense --
Going --
Adverbs --
6. Passive versus static passive --
Passive voice --
Other auxiliaries --
Indirect objects --
Static passive --
7. Subject-verb agreement And, or, and nor --
Number --
All, none, and some --
Time and money --
Scissors and politics --
Collective nouns --
8. Verbs and prepositions --
To --
Location prepositions --
About, for, and to --
9. Subjunctive --
Present subjunctive --
Past subjunctive --
If --
10. Little versus few --
Little --
Few --
Comparative --
11. Comparatives and superlatives --
Comparatives --
Superlatives --
12. Pronoun varieties --
Personal pronouns --
Singular or plural verbs --
Other pronoun forms --
Quantifiers --
13. Determiners and adverbs of degree --
Demonstratives --
Possessives Ordinal numbers and quantifiers --
Adverbs of degree --
14. Gerunds, infinitives, and participles --
Gerunds --
Infinitives --
Participles --
15. Auxiliaries --
Should and would --
Should have and would have --
Modals --
Modals and past participles --
16. Using get --
Passive voice --
17. Restrictive and nonrestrictive relative clauses --
Combining sentences --
Prepositions --
Restrictive relative clauses --
Nonrestrictive relative clauses --
18. Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions --
Subordinating conjunctions --
The conjunction as --
The conjunction that --
The conjunction because 19. Phrasal verbs --
Be --
Check --
Do --
Figure --
Fill --
Give --
Go --
Keep --
Let --
Make --
Run --
Set --
Stand --
Take --
Turn --
Walk --
20. Writing --
Appendix: Homophones --
Answer key
