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

Take your English Grammar skills to the next level and speak with confidence!

To 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.

Instead 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:

Dozens of exercises in formats suited to your learning style

Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical point

A detailed answer key for quick, easy progress checks

Diagnostic exercises, new to this second edition, that help identify topics that require special attention

Learn the Ins and Outs of:

Non-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 clauses