... 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 ... to . . . court.13 He first went to . . . sea in a Swedish ship, so as well as learning . . . navigation he had to learn . . . Swedish.14 . . . family hotels are . . . hotels which welcome ....
... 110(2)spend on 234(1)spend time doing 140(3)split infinitive 117(1) Notesplit into 234(2)spoken English 53sport: countable/uncountable 144(5d)spread with/without object 8(3)staff: group noun...