Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners.

2nd Ed. - 2017. — 312 p.

Take your English Grammar skills to the next level and speak with confidence! To fully understand how to speak English effectively you must move beyond the fundamental principles of grammar and tackle more sophisticated sentence constructions. Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learnersfocuses on intermediate- to advanced-level topics to help you create more complex, meaningful sentences and communicate more naturally. Instead of just applying sets of rules, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners helps you better understand the nuances of the language and develop your skills and confident as a native speaker by providing easy-to-absorb explanatory materials, examples, and exercises.

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Contents
Preface
I Nouns, Pronouns, and Noun Modifiers
Diagnostic exercises
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
II Verbs and Verb Tenses
Diagnostic exercises
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
III Clauses and Phrases
Diagnostic exercises
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

Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners is designed to help advanced-level learners gain control over difficult areas of English grammar. This book is not a systematic treatment of all areas of English grammar. Instead, it deals in depth with selected grammar topics that pose special problems for nonnative speakers. These topics fall into two areas: (1) areas of grammar that are the source of persistent error and (2) areas of grammar that are so complex that even advanced nonnative speakers almost always avoid them.
Examples of the first type of persistent error would be using wrong articles, misusing the present and present progressive tenses, confusing present and past participles of verbs used as adjectives, and using the wrong relative pronoun in adjective clauses.

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