I feel this is a much better form of practice (with a certain answer that can be found in the answer key) since it forces the student to learn to place the grammar pattern onto an appropriate situation. There were a few activities that had the students describing a picture of situation with the correct grammar. I think that this would especially helpful to Korean students since the wide variety of prepositions is not found in their language, and the average Korean learning English is prone to overlook the word when producing a sentence.Ī lot of the practice problems were focus on accuracy with most of the activities being finishing the sentence with the correct pattern discussed on the previous page. They were lots of pages with lists of common preposition patterns and explanations to the meaning of these phrases. I really like the explanation of 'adjectives + prepositions' and 'verbs + prepositions' at the end. Even the conditionals sections had some explanations of different aspects that could help clarify or reinforce the grammar point to students who already have a fairly solid understanding of conditionals. Also, a few items (especially conditionals) were not explained in away that would be intuitive to someone learning this for the first time.ĭespite these flaws, the book did have a lot of explanations that could help people understand some of the finer points of different grammar patterns.
When someone asks me for a reference to learn English, I always say "Grammar in Use is the best choice! Just go check the contents of each book, and start with the one that you think is suitable for you.The order of the grammar points presented were not what I would consider the most ideal order. I also really enjoyed the images and different types of questions used in the book for better understanding of the material. A ton of multiple-choice questions for a comprehensive review Additional exercises at the end to review some parts I read it once at the new year's holidays, and though I might need to review it later (which I did recently). I first bought it about 8 years ago, when my English teacher at school recommended it. I think this is just the perfect book for learning English grammar.
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