oxford english grammar course intermediate swan pdf

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... definitions, so we have many English grammars (or grammar books), which vary in their coverage and their accuracy. The largest English dictionary is the scholarly twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary, ... (1.7-10) Standard English 14 Variation In standard English 15 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.9 1.10 The spread of English in second- language countries 8 English pidgins and English as an international language 12 Correct English ... 16 Good English 17 Chapter 2 The Scope and Nature of Grammar Summary What is grammar? (2.1-3) 2.1 Types of grammar books 23 2.3 Theories of grammar 25 2.2 Descriptive and prescriptive grammar...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 20:15

... main meaning of can is be able to: Can you swim? =Are you able to swim? I can speak English. = I am able to speak English. Dave can ride a bike. = Dave is able to ride a bike. Note that: 1 can doesn’t ... 48 – ‘what if . . .?’ In Language point 41 we saw how the PRESENT CONTINUOUS is often used in English to mean the FUTURE . Sometimes we use the PRESENT SIMPLE in the same way, as for example ... – the first one has been done for you. 1 Julie can swim. Julie is able to swim. 2 Can they speak English? _________________ ? 3 Dave isn’t able to come. _________________ . 4 Can you see the screen?...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 05:15

... and now I’m leaving! 9 This place has changed a lot ____ we were here last. 10 I’ve been learning English ____ a long time. Exercise 5 Choose the correct verb from the brackets for each sentence ... Fiona since yesterday. 6 (Have you been/Are you) waiting here long? 7 I (learn/’ve been learning) English for five years. 8 The kids (are/have been) playing football since ten o’clock. Dialogue 4 ... over from Denmark to visit. N IELS : Do you remember when I came over to visit last year? D AVE : Of course I do! You arrived in the evening after coming over on the ferry and driving straight here. When...

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... to give you a summary of t he grammar you need for the whole test . OXFORD VNIVEICS ITY PR ESS Great Clare ndon Street, Oxford OX2 GOP Oxford University Press is a department ... City Mumba i Nairob i Sao Paulo Shang hai Taipei Tokyo Toro nto Oxford and Oxford English are registered trade marks of Oxford Univers ity Press in the UK and in certain other countries ... I verb and its object. This is a very common mistake. YO/l speak English well . NOT Ơeu-speak -well -English: I/lay sell stamps here. NOT They -sell-here-stamps; W (J liked...

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... nothing happens to it. (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 15 3/16/09 12:33:55 PM 14 Noun Phrases Of course the possessive forms of nouns can signal many things besides ownership. Often we use the ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 09:20

... 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...

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Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 09:20

... is human, to forgive is divine. Infi nitive phrases differ from gerund phrases in one respect. English speakers often prefer to move longer infi nitive phrases to the end of the sentence, putting...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 09:20

... used in the time-limited, momentary sense of the progressive. One of the most common errors of intermediate- level ESL learners is using stative verbs in the progressive tenses. Here are some...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 09:20

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 09:20