Lester Mark. Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners

2nd edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2017. — 312 p. — ISBN 978-1-260-01086-2.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 Learnersfocuses 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 attentionLearn 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