... with count nouns. However, many plurals are incorrectly used with noncount nouns. Draw a line through each incorrectly used noncount noun and write the corrected form above it. If the plural ... is a component of the computer. In this section, however, we are going to focus solely on how English forms the possessive. Before Shakespeare’s time the possessive form of nouns was spelled...
... a new coat of paint. 6. They had a big victory despite all the odds. 7. A new painting by the English painter Turner has just been discovered. 8. I had no illusions about my chances. 9. The...
... 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 ... 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 ... places in the grammar allow very little variation, and the learner must simply keep to the rules in these cases. Many grammar books concentrate on these restrictive rules, and make grammar appear...
... exactly alike.15 Come on, children! time to get up! nearly breakfast time. 29A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR EXERCISES 1CONTENTS Articles PEG chapter I1 Articles: a/an 2 Articles: the 3 Articles: ... with the milkman when myneighbour interrupted me.20 English people always . . . roast beef for lunch on Sundays?21 It is difficult to learn a foreign language when you . . . anopportunity ... when you left the house?In other English- speaking countries, however, the do forms are used almost exclusively. Itwould therefore be possible to use do/did forms throughout the following exercises...