Essential Modern Practical English Grammar

Author: Li Guojie, Li Ting (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: The book "Essentials of Modern English Grammar in Use" is a reference book written for Chinese students with a certain level of English proficiency, English teachers, English workers, and relevant English scholars. Addressing the current situation in China and the potential issues that may arise in English teaching, the book focuses on the practical application of English grammar knowledge and idiomatic usage, emphasizing fundamentals and highlighting key points. Most of the example sentences in the main text are selected from original English publications. During the writing process, the authors referred to numerous works on various grammatical schools, both domestic and foreign (especially foreign). The book provides necessary explanations for aspects that differ from traditional Chinese English grammar, such as the classification of parts of speech, determiners, the two-tense two-form system, the expression of future tense, subjunctive mood, the -ed and -ing participles in non-finite verbs, and restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses in complex sentences that function as adverbial or coordinate clauses in terms of semantics. These detailed discussions will greatly help readers improve their reading comprehension skills.