Description
Title: | A Handbook of English Grammar and Usage |
Publisher: | Bharati Bhawan Publishers & Distributors |
Author: | D Thakur |
ISBN-13: | 9788177091847 |
No. of Pages: | 351 |
Published: | 1987 |
Edition: | Reprint 2010 |
Binding: | Paper Back |
Language: | English |
Subject: | English |
About the book
This book is meant for intermediate and advanced students and is especially useful for examinees preparing for competitive examinations. The format of this book is quite different from that of other books of this kind. Emphasis is on areas which learners of the English language find troublesome. These have been dealt with in a crisp fashion with lots of examples. The lessons have exercises which are meant to critically test the learner’s understanding.
Contents
- Some General Observations
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
- Inversion
- Question-Tags
- Relative Clauses
- The Use of Article in English
- Time and Tense
- Auxiliaries
- Prepositional, Phrasal and Phrasal-Prepositional Verbs
- Some Troublesome Verbs
- Some Troublesome Prepositions, Prepositional Phrases and Conjunctions
- Some other Troublesome Words and Phrases
- Words Often Mistaken for One Another
- Punctuation
- Some Common Errors
- Word Stress
- Silent Consonant Letters
- The Pronunciation of Certain Suffixes
- American English
- Figures of Speech
- Appendices
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