... 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 ... compilers. It is the first
grammar of its kind, and it is deferent in many respects from other kinds of grammar.
This grammar attempts to make accurate statements about English, as seen in the huge...
...
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
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1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles: ... my
neighbour interrupted me.
20 English people always . . . roast beef for lunch on Sundays?
21 It is difficult to learn a foreign language when you . . . an
opportunity of speaking it. (negative)
22 ... speaker had just finished speaking and the
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28 You . . . (request) get me some aspirin when you're at the chemist's.
have: possessive
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In British English, have meaning possess...
... 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
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SIMPLE ... used in formal English as the
object of
a
verb or
a
preposition.
In
(c):
who,
not
whom,
is usually used
in
everyday English.
In (d):
whom
is used in very formal
English.
Whom...
... do)
right now?
B:
I
(do)
a grammar exercise.
8.
A:
What
(Maria,
do)
every morning?
B:
She
(go)
to work.
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...
this afternoon
13.
tonight
'
'
'
14.
next week
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EXERCISE 4-ORAL (BOOKS CLOSED):
Listen to the ... family again
9.
where
/
live next year
10.
when
/
get married
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EXERCISE 53-REVIEW:
Complete the sentences. Use...