McGraw-Hill's Essential ESL Grammar: A Handbook for Intermediate and Advanced ESL Students

  • 4h 9m
  • Mark Lester
  • McGraw-Hill
  • 2008

As an experienced student of English, you know the language can be a tricky one to learn with its complex grammar and its many "exceptions to the rule" rules.

Written by ESL guru Mark Lester--author of Grammar and Usage in the Classroom--this authoritative reference unravels these mysteries so you can take your English-language skills to the next level. You'll gain the confidence to speak English in any setting: in the workplace, at school, in social situations, and at home.

Master those troublesome subjects that baffle even native speakers of English:

  • articles
  • determiners
  • predicate adjective complements
  • post-noun modifiers
  • conjunctions
  • word order
  • verb tenses
  • modals
  • noun clauses

About the Author

Mark Lester is an experienced grammarian, ESL expert, and professor emeritus of Eastern Washington University. He was the founding chair of the ESL department at the University of Hawaii, which is now considered one of the best ESL programs in the United States. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Grammar and Usage in the Classroom, one of the most widely used college grammar textbooks in the United States.

In this Book

  • Nouns
  • Adjectives
  • Determiners
  • Post-Noun Modifiers
  • Pronouns
  • Gerunds and Infinitives
  • Noun Clauses
  • Basic Verb Forms
  • Verb Tenses and Modals
  • Special Verbs
  • Verb Complements I: Simple Complements
  • Verb Complements II: Multiple Complements
  • Predicate Adjective Complements
  • Adverbs
  • Using Adverbs
  • Conjunctions
  • Questions
  • The Passive
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