Be Grammar Ready

Description

Be Grammar Ready is an international-quality grammar book for pan-Asian learners of English who want to improve their communication. Written by British grammarian with over four decades of authorship experience, John Eastwood, this book keeps in mind the particular needs of Asian learners of English, and provides updated grammar rules and information about usage, along with examples tailored to Asian contexts and exercises for practice all of which support learners towards achieving accuracy in their use of English. With over 170 grammar topics explained in concise and informative chapters, this book makes learning grammar easy and interesting for both self-learners, such as professionals and exam aspirants, as well as for classroom teaching.

Table of contents

How to Use this Book
Glossary
Sentence and text

1. The simple sentence
2. Statements, questions, imperatives and exclamations
3. Questions and answers

4. The verb phrase
5. Verb tenses and aspects
6. The future
7. Be, have and do
8. Modal verbs
9. The passive

10. The infinitive
11. The gerund
12. The participle

13. Nouns and noun phrases
14. Agreement
15. The articles: a/an and the
16. Possessives and demonstratives
17. Quantifiers
18. Pronouns

19. Adjectives
20. Adverbials
21. Comparison
22. Prepositions
23. Phrasal verbs and patterns with prepositions

24. Sentences with more than one clause
25. And, or, but, so
26. Adverbial clauses
27. Conditional clauses
28. Noun clauses
29. Direct and indirect speech
30. Relative clauses