... usage.
Some great grammars of English for example Otto Jespersen's A Modern EnglishGrammar
support each statement with citations from published books, just as the major dictionaries of
English ... perspective away from
grammar as a list of arbitrary problems, and towards grammar as a means of free expression.
We have tried to produce a grammar of real English the English that people speak ... places in the grammar allow very little variation, and the learner must simply keep to
the rules in these cases. Many grammarbooks concentrate on these restrictive rules, and
make grammar appear...
...
exactly alike.
15 Come on, children! time to get up! nearly breakfast time.
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A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR
EXERCISES 1
CONTENTS
Articles
PEG chapter I
1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles: ... now.
19 I . . . a very interesting conversation with the milkman when my
neighbour interrupted me.
20 English people always . . . roast beef for lunch on Sundays?
21 It is difficult to learn a foreign ... (carry) the corpse down the stairs when he (hear) a knock on the door.
10 When I (look) through your books I (notice) that you have a copy of Murder in the
Cathedral.
11 As they (walk) along the road...