Learn Correct English: Grammar, Composition and Usage
Reflecting up-to-date college ELT pedagogy, namely the communicative approach, the book offers a comprehensive and in-depth treatment of grammar and usage. The real life examples and interesting exercises also make this especially enjoyable and student-friendly. This textbook should be compulsory reading for students of General and Communicative English courses anywhere.
Table of Content
- Grammar (15 Units—functions and grammatical structures)--the use of nouns, articles, personal and possessive pronouns, adjectives, relative clauses, simple present tense, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past and past perfect tenses, modal auxiliary verbs, active passive, phrasal and prepositional verbs, adverbs, prepositions, gerunds, participles, open condition, impossible and improbable conditions, reported speech[statements, commands, requests], use of inversion for focusing
- Letter writing (5 units)—Informal letters, Formal letters—of complaint, of application, business and miscellanous), e-mail correspondence
- Study skills (4 units)—Word power, Precis writing, Paragraph writing, Net directory
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Salient Features
- Communicative approach instead of structural, wherein rules are seen as ‘means’ of learning the language and not the end
- Separate sections on grammar, letter writing (including e-mail) and study skills (word power)
- Substantial coverage of grammar topics
- Authentic materials (newspapers, adverts and jokes) to introduce grammatical points
- Class-tested materials
- 4 or 5 tasks per topic
- Interesting presentation-- b/w illustrations and drawings
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