Are you struggling with grammatical explanations? This book will provide you with everything you need to know about English grammar. Simplified into easy to understand terms with easy examples.

Advanced English in a Nutshell is a short, detail free book that sheds light on the highlights and major grammatical points in a clear and effective manner. Getting lost in the endless variations of grammatical rules can be extremely distracting and most of the time disappointing. For this purpose, the book is not designed to dig deep into the limitless details of grammatical rules rather it is a kind of a review to the most necessary forms and structures that students need to use in academic tests in order to get high scores. In all tests candidates' performance is assessed according to the type of grammatical structures they are using while they are speaking or writing. The candidate who sticks to present simple and continuous forms, for instance, is not expected to get a high score in terms of structure because of the use of simple grammatical forms. Thus, it does make sense for candidates to use a variety of complex and simple structures to give the impression that they have a good mastery and command of the language.

Comprehensive German grammar reference course with examples, exercises, illustrations and answers. Suitable for self-study, building vocabulary, and developing reading, writing and grammar skills.

This advanced English grammar course features: short, clear explanations that are easy to remember; real examples to show how grammar works in practice; engaging practice activities including Internet exercises, grammar in a text, and vocabulary; grammar for reading, writing, and speaking; and a pronunciation CD-ROM.

English Grammar: * helps users to understand grammatical concepts * encourages the reader to practise applying newly discovered concepts to everyday texts * teaches students to analyze almost every word in any English text * provides teachers and students with a firm grounding in a system which they can both understand and apply.

Do you hate teaching some aspects of grammar? Do you ever feel frustrated that your students just don’t get it? Well, in Grammar Nonsense, Andrew Walkley and Hugh Dellar argue that you shouldn’t really blame yourself. The fault lies largely with the way grammar rules and methods have been passed down through training and published material and become established as the way of doing things: a straightjacket that we need to escape from. Through an entertaining series of rants and meditations on all things grammatical, from the use of the word grammar to the horror of teaching verb patterns, they aim to pull apart rules which we give without thinking and to question approaches to practice that are seen as a must. Along the way, you’ll not only learn how published materials get written and about ideas such as the transformation fallacy and grammar olives, but you’ll also get plenty of practical suggestions as to what to do about all this nonsense.