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Focused on Grammar: An Advanced Course for Reference and Practice, Second Edition, is divided into ten parts comprising twenty-five units. Each part contains grammatically related units, with each unit focusing on a specific grammatical structure or related groups of structures. In this advanced-level txt, some structures are grouped together because of their related application to writing. The infinitive of purpose, for example, is taught together with participial phrases because both kinds of structures function adverbially. but, more importantly, they have similar applications to the acquisition of two important concepts: sentence combining and avoiding dangling modifiers. Each unit has one or more major themes relating the exercises to one another and providing a context that serves as a vehicle for the structures. All units have the same clear, easy-to-follow format.

From Grammar to Writing

At the end of each part, there is a writing section called From grammar to Writing. this feature is designed to help students bridge the gap between writing in the ESL/ EFL classroom and the less controlled writing they may need to do outside of class, whether in everyday or academic settings. These optional units occur after the SelfTests and focus on such writing issues as the sentence, subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement; topic sentences; punctuating adjectives clauses; writing direct and indirec speech; and unity, support, and coherence. Although these writing issues are not solely ESL/ EFL related, they are highly important to the ESL/ EFL student who wants to write successfully.

In most of the From Grammar to Writing units, the topic presented is related to the grammar content of the part just concluded. for example, the second writing unit on parallelism naturally and logically accompanies the gerund and infinitive part, since mixing gerunds and infinitives in a series is a common parallelism error.

A new feature of the From Grammar to Writing units in this edition is a final writing section called Apply It to Your Writing.

In this actvity, students apply the principles they have just learned in a short composition and then work with a partner to edit each other's work.

Author: Jay Maurer

Thickness: 526 pp

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Weight:1,130 grams

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