Practice Makes Perfect English Articles and Determiners Up Close
1st Edition
Published on 23. July 2013
139 pages
978-0-07-175355-5 (ISBN)
Description
Learn to master the useful but tricky skill of how to choose the right article or determinerAs a non-native speaker of English, you may have trouble with determiners because, unlike true adjectives, the choice of which article, demonstrative, or quantifier to use is dependent on both the meaning and the grammatical form of the particular noun they modify. Practice Makes Perfect: English Articles and Determiners Up Close helps you untangle this grammar puzzle with clear explanations of how they should be treated and used. And of course you will get hundreds of exercise opportunities to practice, practice, practice your new skills.
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Content
- Cover
- PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT® English Articles and Determiners Up Close
- Copyright Page
- CD Content
- Contents
- Preface
- I ARTICLES
- 1 An introduction to articles
- Four types of articles
- Categories of nouns
- Singular count nouns, plural count nouns, and noncount nouns
- Distinguishing between count and noncount nouns
- 2 The definite article the
- The pronunciation of the
- The meaning and use of the
- 3 The singular indefinite article a/an
- A versus an
- The meaning and use of the singular indefinite article a/an
- A summary of indefinite article uses
- 4 The indefinite article some
- Idiomatic uses of the indefinite article some
- The meaning and use of some
- The some/any question rule
- The some/any negative statement rule
- Other some/any rules
- 5 The zero article
- Zero article, definite articles, and indefinite articles
- Present-tense forms
- Adverbs of frequency
- 6 Summary of article usage
- The definite article the
- The singular indefinite article a/an
- The indefinite article some
- The zero article,
- II DETERMINERS
- 7 An introduction to determiners
- Comparative and superlative forms
- Ability to function as pronouns
- Word order
- 8 Definite determiners
- Demonstrative determiners
- Possessive determiners
- 9 Quantifiers
- A few / few
- a little / little
- A lot of
- All / all (of) the
- Many / much
- Review of quantifiers
- Answer key
- For Download
