A Practical English Grammar

Cover ......Page 1
Title Page ......Page 3
Copyright ......Page 4
Preface to First Edition ......Page 5
Preface to Second Edition ......Page 6
Contents ......Page 7
Articles ......Page 13
Nouns ......Page 19
Adjectives ......Page 24
Demonstrative, Distributive and Quantitaive Adjectives and Pronouns ......Page 28
Interrogative Adjectives, Pronouns and Advers ......Page 33
Possessive Adjectives, personal and Other Pronouns ......Page 37
Relative Pronouns ......Page 43
Adverbs ......Page 50
Prepositions ......Page 58
Conjunctions ......Page 65
Introduction to Verbs ......Page 69
The Auxiliaries "be" and "have ......Page 76
The Auxiliaries  "do", "may" and "can ......Page 85
'Must',' have to' and 'need ......Page 94
The Auxiliaries 'ought', 'dare' and 'used ......Page 101
The Present Tenses ......Page 105
The Past and Perfect Tenses ......Page 112
The Future ......Page 130
Sequences of Tenses ......Page 141
The Conditional ......Page 142
Other uses of 'will', 'would', 'shall', and 'should ......Page 150
The Infinitive ......Page 159
The Gerund ......Page 170
The Participles ......Page 178
The Imperative ......Page 182
The Sunjunctive ......Page 183
The Passive Voice ......Page 186
Reported Speech ......Page 190
Clauses of Purpose, Comparison, Reason, Time, Result, and Concession ......Page 206
List of Irregular Verbs ......Page 213
Verbs + Prepositions / Adverbs ......Page 218
Numerals, Dates, Weights and Measures ......Page 263
Spelling Rules ......Page 267
Index ......Page 271
Back cover ......Page 288