Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners, Second Edition

n nTake your English Grammar skills to the next level and speak with confidence n nTo fully understand how to speak English effectively you must move beyond the fundamental principles of grammar and tackle more sophisticated sentence constructions. Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners focuses on intermediate- to advanced-level topics to help you create more complex, meaningful sentences and communicate more naturally.n nInstead of just applying sets of rules, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners helps you better understand the nuances of the language and develop your skills and confident as a native speaker by providing easy-to-absorb explanatory materials, examples, and exercises. Inside you will find: n n- Dozens of exercises in formats suited to your learning stylen n- Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical pointn n- A detailed answer key for quick, easy progress checksn n- Diagnostic exercises, new to this second edition, that help identify topics that require special attentionn nLearn the Ins and Outs of: n nNon-count nouns - Possessives formed with of - Articles and quantifiers - Deriving adjectives from verb participles - Key rules for verb forms and tenses - Modal auxiliary verbs - Get passives - Restrictive and nonrestrictive adjective clauses -Identifying gerunds and infinitives - The use of noun clausesn n n