... perspective away from grammar as a list of arbitrary problems, and towards grammar as a means of free expression.We have tried to produce a grammar of real English the English that people speak ... usage.Some great grammars of English for example Otto Jespersen's A Modern EnglishGrammar support each statement with citations from published books, just as the major dictionaries of English ... compilers. It is the first grammar of its kind, and it is deferent in many respects from other kinds of grammar. This grammar attempts to make accurate statements about English, as seen in the huge...
... exactly alike.15 Come on, children! time to get up! nearly breakfast time. 29A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR EXERCISES 1CONTENTS Articles PEG chapter I1 Articles: a/an 2 Articles: the 3 Articles: ... where we . . . (take)27 It . . . a trilogy but in the end the author found that he had only enough material for twovolumes, (be)28 You . . . very angry if I refused?29 The matter . . . discussed ... now.19 I . . . a very interesting conversation with the milkman when myneighbour interrupted me.20 English people always . . . roast beef for lunch on Sundays?21 It is difficult to learn a foreign...