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The Oxford English Grammar

The Oxford English Grammar

Ngày tải lên : 26/10/2013, 20:15
... definitions, so we have many English grammars (or grammar books), which vary in their coverage and their accuracy. The largest English dictionary is the scholarly twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary, ... (1.7-10) Standard English 14 Variation In standard English 15 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.9 1.10 The spread of English in second- language countries 8 English pidgins and English as an international language 12 Correct English ... 16 Good English 17 Chapter 2 The Scope and Nature of Grammar Summary What is grammar? (2.1-3) 2.1 Types of grammar books 23 2.3 Theories of grammar 25 2.2 Descriptive and prescriptive grammar...
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Tài liệu A complete English language course part 14 pdf

Tài liệu A complete English language course part 14 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 15/12/2013, 05:15
... main meaning of can is be able to: Can you swim? =Are you able to swim? I can speak English. = I am able to speak English. Dave can ride a bike. = Dave is able to ride a bike. Note that: 1 can doesn’t ... 48 – ‘what if . . .?’ In Language point 41 we saw how the PRESENT CONTINUOUS is often used in English to mean the FUTURE . Sometimes we use the PRESENT SIMPLE in the same way, as for example ... – the first one has been done for you. 1 Julie can swim. Julie is able to swim. 2 Can they speak English? _________________ ? 3 Dave isn’t able to come. _________________ . 4 Can you see the screen?...
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Tài liệu A complete English language course part 21 pdf

Tài liệu A complete English language course part 21 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 24/12/2013, 13:15
... and now I’m leaving! 9 This place has changed a lot ____ we were here last. 10 I’ve been learning English ____ a long time. Exercise 5 Choose the correct verb from the brackets for each sentence ... Fiona since yesterday. 6 (Have you been/Are you) waiting here long? 7 I (learn/’ve been learning) English for five years. 8 The kids (are/have been) playing football since ten o’clock. Dialogue 4 ... over from Denmark to visit. N IELS : Do you remember when I came over to visit last year? D AVE : Of course I do! You arrived in the evening after coming over on the ferry and driving straight here. When...
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English grammar drills part 4 pdf

English grammar drills part 4 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20
... nothing happens to it. (i-viiiB,001-328B) whl bk.indd 15 3/16/09 12:33:55 PM 14 Noun Phrases Of course the possessive forms of nouns can signal many things besides ownership. Often we use the ... is a component of the computer. In this section, however, we are going to focus solely on how English forms the possessive. Before Shakespeare’s time the possessive form of nouns was spelled...
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English grammar drills part 9 pdf

English grammar drills part 9 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20
... a new coat of paint. 6. They had a big victory despite all the odds. 7. A new painting by the English painter Turner has just been discovered. 8. I had no illusions about my chances. 9. The...
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English grammar drills part 14 pdf

English grammar drills part 14 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20
... is human, to forgive is divine. Infi nitive phrases differ from gerund phrases in one respect. English speakers often prefer to move longer infi nitive phrases to the end of the sentence, putting ... nitives with or without modi- fi ers and/or complements. Infi nitive phrases can play three of the basic four noun roles: subjects, objects of verbs, and predicate nominatives. Unlike gerund phrases,...
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English grammar drills part 33 pdf

English grammar drills part 33 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 01/07/2014, 09:20
... alike both inverted with the subjects.) There is no standard name in traditional grammar for the verbs in modern English that can be inverted to form yes-no questions. The verbs that can be inverted ... is then inverted with the subject just like any other auxiliary verb. This dummy verb, is, of course, the verb do. Here are some examples using this dummy auxiliary verb. Let’s start with ... verb is the actual historical source of the do used in yes-no questions and negatives in modern English. ) This intermediate sentence now contains an auxiliary verb that can be inverted in the...
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