... 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 ... it.This grammar is based on these important correspondences between structure and function, which are set out in the Cobuild Grammar Chart on the following pages. The skeleton of English grammar...
... SentencesWriting sentence fragments is a serious error. Writing run-on sentences is an equallyserious error.Question:What is a run-on sentence? Answer:A run-on sentence is two or more sentences ... SentencesAs we learned in Part One (pages 105–107), two or more simple sentences can becombined to form a compound sentence. SIMPLE SENTENCE : Dogs show affection for their owners.SIMPLE SENTENCE : ... object, car,like a verb.)PROBLEMS WITH SENTENCESTRUCTURE 161 150 COMMON USAGE ERRORSLesson 20Problems with Sentence Structure There are three basic kinds of sentences: simple, compound, and complex....
... exactly alike.15 Come on, children! time to get up! nearly breakfast time. 29 A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR EXERCISES 1CONTENTS Articles PEG chapter I1 Articles: a/an 2 Articles: the 3 Articles: ... very severe drought. it is/there isPEG 67,116-17Insert it is/there is in the spaces. In some sentences, contracted plural, negative and interrogative forms, or the past or future tense are ... now.19 I . . . a very interesting conversation 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...
... 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...
... particular. (I'm thinking about nothing in particular.) 8. A: B: English grammar. (I dreamed about Englishgrammar last night.) 9. A: B: The map on the wall. (The teacher is pointing ... read the newspaper every morning 5. study grammar every evening 10. pay all of my bills every month Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. SIMPLE ... EXPRESSING PAST TIME 201 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. EXERCISE 52: Add a capital letter and period to the complete sentences. Write "Inc."...