Grammar for All

This book is designed to give practical knowledge in English grammar, help in acquiring good communication skills and equip the individuals to speak/write with confidence. It can be used by anyone who wishes to learn and improve English grammar. Special emphasis has been laid on all the following units: Parts of speech; Kinds of nouns; Demonstrative adjectives and demonstrative pronouns; Kinds of verbs, Auxiliary and main verbs, Transitive verbs and intransitive verbs, Regular verbs and irregular verbs; Am−Is−Are−used as main verbs; Am−Is−Are as present continuous; Simple present Tense do−does−did; Simple past tense affirmative, negative, interrogative and negative interrogative; was−were as main verbs; was−were as past continuous; have−has possession have got and has got; present perfect; present perfect continuous; past perfect; past perfect continuous; simple future and future continuous; Future perfect and future perfect continuous; Little, a little, the little, few, a few, the few. Active voice − passive voice; articles; infinitives; gerund; participle; Sentence Pattern; Interrogatives or questions; Tag questions; Relative pronouns; Defining and non−defining relative clauses; degrees of comparisons; prepositions; auxiliaries modals; Direct and indirect speech statements, Questions, imperative, exclamatory; Indirect and direct speech; conditional clauses; phrases and clauses; simple−compound−complex sentences; Agreement of the verb with the subject; the difference between make and do; personal pronouns; possessive adjective; possessive pronoun; reflexive pronouns and emphasizing pronouns; one word substitution. The specialty of this book is to cover the complete units of grammar and in addition to that it deals with one word and another word, homographs, homophones and phonetics. Some of the books which I have referred are Grammar book by P.C. Wren and Martin, A Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V. Martinet, A Remedial English Grammar for Foreign Students by Frederick T. Wood, and The Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English by A.S. Hornby. Contents : Unit: 1 Parts of Speech Unit: 2 Kinds of Nouns Unit: 3 Demonstrative Adjectives and Demonstrative Pronouns Unit: 4 Kinds of Verbs Unit: 5 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Unit: 6 Regular and Irregular Verbs Unit: 7 Am, Is, Are − as Main Verbs Unit: 8 Am, Is, Are − as Questions Unit: 9 Am, Is, Are − as Present Continuous Unit: 10 Simple Present Tense Unit: 11 Simple Past Unit: 12 Was/Were − as Main Verbs Unit: 13 Was/Were − Past Continuous Unit: 14 Have/Has (Possession) Have Got/Has Got Unit: 15 Present Perfect Tense Unit: 16 Present Perfect Continuous Tense Unit: 17 Past Perfect Tense Unit: 18 Past Perfect Continuous Tense Unit: 19 Simple Future Tense and Future Continuous Tense Unit: 20 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous Tense Unit: 21 Prepositions Unit: 22 Articles Unit: 23 Degrees of Comparison Unit: 24 Possessive Case − Apostrophe Unit: 25 Comparison of Adjectives Unit: 26 Little + Uncountable Noun Unit: 27 Active and Passive Voice-1 Unit: 28 Make and Do Unit: 29 Personal Pronouns / Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns Unit: 30 Reflexive and Emphasizing Pronouns Unit: 31 Suffixes and Prefixes Unit: 32 The Infinitive Unit: 33 The Gerund Unit: 34 The Participle Unit: 35 Sentence Patterns Unit: 36 Interrogatives or Questions Unit: 37 Tag Questions Unit: 38 Relative Pronouns Unit: 39 The Auxiliaries − Modal Verbs Unit: 40 Direct and Indirect Speech Unit: 41 Indirect Speech to Direct Speech Unit: 42 Agreement of the Verb with the Subject Unit: 43 Conditional Clauses Unit: 44 Phrases and Clauses Unit: 45 Adjective Clauses Unit: 46 Adverb Clauses Unit: 47 Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Unit: 48 Combine Each Set of Sentences into One Simple Sentence Unit: 49 One Word and Another Word Unit: 50 Homographs Unit: 51 Homophones Unit: 52 Homonyms Unit: 53 Prepositional Verbs Unit: 54 Phonetics Unit: 55 Periods of Time Unit: 56 Non−metric Measures (With Approximate Metric Equivalents) Unit: 57 Greetings and Salutations Unit: 58 Air Travel Etiquette Unit: 59 Ranks in the Armed Forces Unit: 60 Telephoning − Manners Unit: 61 Relationships Unit: 62 Work and Jobs Unit: 63 One−word Substitution Unit: 64 Letter writing Unit: 65 Precis−Writing Unit: 66 Paraphrasing Unit: 67 Punctuation Model Question Paper