A Concise Grammar for English Language Teachers"A Concise Grammar for English Language Teachers excels at actually making grammar easy; easy to understand, easy to master, easy to apply in the classroom. Its underlying aim is to help teachers become au fait with the terminology used in modern ELT coursebooks and to build confidence in their ability to explain grammar rules, both structural and functional. Among the bold innovations with this book is its A4 size, which more readily accommodates the plentiful and highly commended tables of grammar items. It is also the first English teacher’s grammar to use ‘tree diagrams’ to show sentence constituents in full clarity. Other strengths include the many excerpts from coursebooks and resource books, plus the excellent practical tips throughout." -- |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Present simple continuous past simple cont future simple cont | 16 |
Present perfect past perfect future perfect | 21 |
Future markers review tenses stative and dynamic verbs | 29 |
Nouns | 37 |
Quantifiers | 39 |
Pronouns | 42 |
Adjectives | 49 |
Reported speech | 82 |
Relative clauses | 85 |
Conditionals | 89 |
The infinitive and ing form | 97 |
The articles | 99 |
Discourse markers | 101 |
Negation | 103 |
Concord agreement | 104 |
Common terms and phrases
1st conditional 2nd conditional 3rd conditional activity adverb called chapter cleft sentences collocation continuous aspect continuous future convey correct countable course coursebooks definite article discourse marker dynamic verbs end position English error example followed function future continuous future perfect simple future simple gender-neutral pronoun gerund going grammar indefinite infinitive language learners lesson linking verb look main clause main verb meaning modal auxiliary verb negative non-gradable adjectives noun phrase noun/-phrase object passive past continuous past participle past perfect simple past simple past tense phrasal verb plural preposition phrase present continuous present perfect continuous present perfect simple present simple present tense pro-forms quantity relative clause reported speech sentence simple and continuous simple past singular speakers stative SUBJECT PREDICATE subordinate clause taking photos Task teacher Teaching note transitive verb uncountable nouns Upper Intermediate usually write Yes/no question zero conditional