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Rockridge Press is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. Interior and Cover Designer: Rachel Haeseker Art Producer: Tom Hood Editor: Natasha Yglesias ISBN: Print 978-1-64611-319-4 | eBook 978-1-64611-320-0 R0 Contents How to Use This Workbook on an Ebook Device Introduction Part One: By the Book Chapter One: Nouns, Determiners, and Quantifiers Chapter Two: Adjectives Chapter Three: Adverbs Chapter Four: Verbs Chapter Five: Verb Tenses Chapter Six: Advanced Ideas with Verbs Chapter Seven: Prepositions Chapter Eight: Sentences and Punctuation Chapter Nine: Usage and Style Chapter Ten: The Paragraph Part Two: Writing in Your Everyday Life Chapter Eleven: School Chapter Twelve: Work Chapter Thirteen: Social Situations Chapter Fourteen: Getting Creative Chapter Fifteen: Our Digital World Irregular Verbs Cheat Sheet Spelling Cheat Sheet Parts of Speech Cheat Sheet Glossary Answer Key Further Reading and Resources References About the Author Chapter Fourteen: Getting Creative Chapter Fifteen: Our Digital World Irregular Verbs Cheat Sheet Spelling Cheat Sheet Parts of Speech Cheat Sheet Glossary Answer Key Further Reading and Resources References About the Author How to Use This Workbook on an Ebook Device If you’re reading this workbook on a touch-screen device, you can add notes and highlight text just like you would in a physical workbook. Some sections will prompt you to write in answers or personal responses. It’s easy—give it a try right here: ___________.
With your finger, tap and hold for a few moments on the line above. Depending on the device you’re using, an icon such as a magnifying glass will appear. Lift your finger and you’ll see an options menu. Select “Note” (or “Notes”) to add and save your own text.
When you’re done, an icon or highlighted area will remain, which you can always return to and tap if you want to reopen and read or edit your note. The same tap-and-hold options menu offers “Highlight” or “Color,” which you can select if you want “Highlight” or “Color,” which you can select if you want book to highlight a passage or “check” a box. Experiment with it: By swiping your finger before releasing you can select entire sentences or paragraphs. The options menu also offers “Bookmark” for when you want quick access back to certain pages.
en device, This method is the same on nearly all touch-screen u would ebook devices, but some have slight variations. If you’d like more information specific to the device you’re nswers or holding in your hands, a quick online search will yield here: best results. ments on using, an your Note” (or you’re hich you en and you want “Highlight” or “Color,” which you can select if you want to highlight a passage or “check” a box. Experiment with it: By swiping your finger before releasing you can select entire sentences or paragraphs.
The options menu also offers “Bookmark” for when you want quick access back to certain pages. This method is the same on nearly all touch-screen ebook devices, but some have slight variations. If you’d like more information specific to the device you’re holding in your hands, a quick online search will yield best results. Introduction Hey, everyone! Thanks for picking up this book.
I’m a native New Yorker who started on an English teaching journey in 1994 in Sendai, Japan. At first, I thought teaching English would be easy. Boy, was I surprised! Sure, English has a lot of grammar rules, but I soon realized that in many situations, those rules, their exceptions, and even some “non-rules” made learning and teaching English pretty tough. For example, I knew that in English, we use many before countable nouns (many pens, many people) and much before uncountable nouns (much rain, much love).
But one day, one of my students said, “I ate much food last night,” which sounded weird to me. When I tried to figure out why, I couldn’t find the answer in any of the grammar books I had. I realized that while most books will teach you how to make the grammar (the structure), they don’t teach you how to apply it. That’s how I became motivated to write this book.
The lessons here will help you become more articulate and confident using English in your writing and everyday English conversations. What Does This Book Mean by “Functional” English Grammar? When something is functional, it’s both practical and useful. The cat or dog on your coffee mug looks nice, but it’s neither practical nor useful. Your mug will work just as well without the graphics.
I wanted to write a book that would help clear up questions you may have about grammar but also give you opportunities to practice using grammar in real everyday situations. Applying what you learn is key to remembering and mastering anything. You teach you have to just do it, as a certain sportswear company says. You can read all about swimming and spend hours watching swimming videos on YouTube, but to become a riting and swimmer, you have to actually jump in the pool.
So, welcome to your new “swimming area”! So, what actually is grammar? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines grammar as “the study of the classes of Mean words, their inflections, and their functions and relations in the sentence.” This definition really describes everything you need to know about grammar in order to write and speak English with proficiency. The classes of words are the parts of speech—nouns, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, etc. Inflections refer to the way we use words to account for tense (past, present, future), mood, gender, voice, etc. And functions and relations are how words work together in a sentence.
book that There’s a saying that you don’t need to know how a clock works in order to tell time. The same goes for tice using grammar. The different sections of this book are categorized by name so they can be presented in an hing. You organized way, but don’t get caught up in the terminology.
You don’t need to remember the term countable noun—you just need to know that some nouns become a are countable, like dogs or cars, and that uncountable nouns refer to nouns that cannot be counted, like air. Learn the rules, practice with the exercises provided here, -Webster and keep this book on hand for easy reference! classes of relations How to Use This Book order to lasses of This book is divided into two parts. The first part is a s, collection of the most practical and commonly used tions English grammar patterns. Each section is designed to se (past, give you a concise review of that grammar pattern, unctions including its structure, meaning, and, most importantly, sentence.
At the end of each lesson, you’ll find an exercise to give you some practice. You can check your answers with the answer key at the back of the book. Once you feel comfortable with the grammar lessons, you can move on to part two. There, you’ll find real- world scenarios in which you can apply what you learned in part one.
These scenarios cover everything from social situations, school, and work life to creative writing. This book is not a complete guide to English grammar. There are lots of those kinds of books on the ided here, market. Instead, this book focuses on the parts of English grammar that are most used in the real world.
Recommendations for further reading can be found in the resources section at the end of this book. t is a A Note to Instructors sed ned to Thanks for selecting this book for your students. These rn, lessons will be useful for any student who’s learning to rtantly, apply written grammar in a communicative way. The exercise emphasis here is on practical usage.
If you’re teaching answers ESL/EFL, this book can help high-level English learners clear up any grammar points they may find fuzzy or r lessons, confusing. Many of these lessons were born from the real- questions of my upper-level English learners. If you’re u learned working with native-level learners, you can use these om social lessons to help your students fill in any gaps they may ng. have in their written English.
Students can use this book as a self-study tool, a supplement to the material they’re as a self-study tool, a supplement to the material they’re learning in class, or even an inspiration for out-of-class assignments. A Note to ESL/EFL Students In the twenty-five-plus years that I’ve been helping English learners like you, I’ve gotten more questions about grammar than any other area of English.