A broad grammar syllabus
• The verb tense system, modals, gerunds, and infinitives.
• Nouns, articles, quantifiers, pronouns, and agreement.
• Spoken forms and their pronunciation; written forms and their punctuation.
• Sentence patterns, clauses, connectives, and more.

A variety of exercises and classroom activities
• Interviews, polls, debates, pantomimes, and role-playing.
• Student-centered pair and group work.
• Creative completion of stories, dialogues, and sentences.
• Error analysis, practice tests, structure-specific writing, and more.

Interest-catching, relevant contexts
• Sharing lives and personal experiences.
• Fun topics: vacations on the moon, fairy tales, a murder mystery.
• Cross-cultural comparisons and the universality of human experience.
• The natural world and our environment, and more.

including teacher guides and the most popular Fun with Grammar activities are available here.

THE FOCUS ON GRAMMAR SERIES

Both Controlled and Communicative Practice
Focus on Grammar provides an abundance of both controlled and communicative exercises so that students can bridge the gap between knowing grammatical structures and using them.

A Complete Classroom Text and Reference Guide
In each Student Book, the combination of grammar charts, grammar notes, and expansive appendices provides a complete and invaluable reference guide for self study.

• The series covers the grammar students need to know for international exams such as PET, FCE, CAE, CPE, TOEFL.
• Regular revision units and tests help learners focus on the grammar they need to practise most.
• Exit tests ensure the student is ready for the next level of Oxford Practice Grammar.
• Each level comprises a book plus the Practice-Boost CD-ROM, now with 100% more practice and testing.
• NEW Practice-Boost CD-ROMs are compatible with interactive white-boards.
• Mixed-tense exercises get learners practising different tenses in context, meaning they'll be more confident when speaking and writing.
• Listening activities, including dialogues, give learners practice at pronunciation and listening for grammatical differences.
• Multiple choice tests show students what they still need to practise.
• The CD-ROMs link to a free practice test for PET, FCE, and IELTS at
• Get more support at a - now updated with 100% extra practice exercises, new Listen and Speak exercises, and new diagnostic tests at each level.

• Explanations are clear, simple, and easy to remember.
• Real examples show how rules work and how to avoid common mistakes.
• Practice activities show how to use the grammar correctly.
• Grammar and vocabulary are practised together in special exercises.
• Tests at the beginning of each section show learners what they need to practise.
• Tests at the end of each section show progress.

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GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT, the new edition of this best-selling series-now with a Basic level! American cultural readings teach grammar in context! Many new andupdated readings thoughtfully present grammar in context while offering the learner much-needed information about U.S. culture, history, and everyday events. New and updated activities offer contextualized and personalized practice, allowing the learner to gain knowledge and skills in the topics and grammar structures.

• Basic level introduces learners to basic English structures and vocabulary while offering them inviting and interesting lessons on American culture and customs.
• Engaging topics include: Instant Messaging, Dating and Marriage, Spam, e-Bay, Outsourcing of Jobs, Wildfires in California, Occupational Outlook Handbook, and the AIDS Ride.
• Grammar charts offer the clearest grammar explanations yet and provide contextualized examples to maximize learning, understanding, and retention.
• Teacher's Annotated Edition offers page-by-page answers and teaching suggestions, minimizing teacher preparation.
• Expansion Activities and Internet Activities encourage students to use their new language to learn more about the world and people around them while practicing grammar in context.
• Assessment CD-ROM with ExamView Pro allows instructors to create quizzes and tests easily.
• The audio program includes the readings as well as contextualized listening activities

By providing instruction and practice of the 20 most troublesome grammar points, Top 20 helps students master the essential grammar they need to produce great writing at the Intermediate to advanced levels.

Table of Contents:

1. Nouns
2. Articles: a, an, the
3. Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
4. Verb Tense Review
5. Problems with Verb Tenses
6. Subject-Verb Agreement
7. Prepositions
8. Word Forms
9. Modals: Present, Future, Past
10. Gerunds and Infinitives
11. Passive Voice and Participal Adjectives
12. Conditionals
13. Word Order and Word Combination
14. Adjective Clauses and Reductions
15. Adverb Clauses and Reductions
16. Noun Clauses
17. Better Sentences: Variety, Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices
18. Parallel Structure
19. Confusing Words and Structures
20. Editing It All Together

Connecting learners to structure through academic content, Grammar Connection teaches the authentic language skills learners need. Discourse-based grammar presentation through readings and conversations offers natural language instruction using contexts from academic disciplines to prepare learners for academic and professional success.

• Discourse-based grammar presentation through readings and conversations offers natural language instruction and prepares learners for academic success.
• Authentic contexts from academic disciplines provide essential background for grammar presentation and practice.
• Concise lessons with clear grammar charts create an easy-to-follow learning framework.
• High-frequency academic vocabulary is systematically developed in Content Vocabulary sections.
• Multi-skills practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking simulates the skills learners need in academic contexts.
• "Connection: Putting It Together" synthesizes grammar, vocabulary, and content through communicative activities.
• Self-Review and Learner Logs summarize language instruction and enhance learner independence.
• Workbooks reinforce language through controlled grammar practice, recycled academic vocabulary, and an extended writing tutorial.
• Teacher's Annotated Editions include detailed teaching suggestions as well as a Classroom Presentation Tool CD-ROM with Activity Bank Worksheets for interactive grammar presentation and additional communicative practice.

Top 10 helps students master the essential grammar they need to produce great writing.
The text focuses on improving the ten most common grammatical errors novice writers make.

• Straightforward grammar explanations allow students to understand how structures are used in writing.
• Guided activities encourage students to learn about typical grammar errors, identify them, and then correct them.
• Strong emphasis on editing exercises teaches the self-editing skills students need to develop, to be successful writers.

Grammar Connections is an effective communicative grammar series that makes learning interactive and fun. This three-book series uses a carefully controlled lexicon to provide clear, systematic coverage of basic grammatical structures. Grammar Connections books 1, 2, and 3 offer picture dictionary illustrations of key vocabulary running along the bottom of exercise pages for visual support and vocabulary development.

• A scope and sequence chart in each book clearly demonstrates the grammar points, topics, grammar games, idioms, and conversations found in each text
  
• A variety of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities provides communicative contexts and additional practice
  
• Books 1 and 2 include audio cassettes, and Book 3 includes practice tests for the grammar sections of the TOEFL® test

• Short, clear and simple grammar explanations appropriate to the level
• A wide variety of interesting and stimulating exercises
• Write-in space on the page
• Detailed contents page and grammar index
  

The Grammar Express Program's concise, four-page units present and practice grammar points in context, using topics of interest and relevance to learners.

• Clear grammar charts with explanations, examples, and usage notes illustrate how English speakers use each grammar point.
• A variety of contextualized exercises progress from simple to more challenging, while frequent opportunities for assessment keep readers on track for success.
• Additional support includes Appendices with helpful lists and information, and Answer Key, and a Glossary of grammar terms.
• Interactive CD-ROM provides additional practice including listening and speaking.
• Workbook extends the Student Book practice with two pages of additional exercises per unit.

Grammar Sense recognizes that knowing how and when to use a structure is as important as knowing how to form it, giving students a true understanding of the English language.

Key features

• A discourse-based approach encourages communication beyond the sentence level and shows how language is used in the real world.
• Guided exercises lead students into the grammar, fostering independent learning.

Grammar Expert is a four-level series of grammar references and practice books. Grammar points are illustrated in an entertaining cartoon at the beginning of each unit. Each cartoon features Norman, our hard-working hero, and provides a light-hearted start to the unit.

• Grammar points are clearly presented in short stages that students at this level can easily cope with.
• Concise explanations and clear examples enable students to study on their own and gain a better understanding of the material.
• A variety of exercises following the grammar presentation ensures that students get plenty of practice of the points that are taught.
• Grammar exercises within each unit increase in difficulty to provide motivation and to give students graded practice.
• A communication activity and a writing task at the end of each unit help consolidate the grammar points covered in an effective way through realistic situations.
• Five review sections ensure that students have a thorough understanding of all the grammar points covered in the previous units.
• Five progress tests allow teachers to assess their students' progress.

The New Grammar in Action series offers a dynamic, communicative approach to language learning. The series presents English language structure through inviting contexts while integrating listening, speaking, writing, and reading practice. Learners are encourages to share their ideas and experiences and to think more critically about subject matter as they gain greater control and confidence in the target language.

• Assessment Package includes pre- and post-tests as well as tests for each unit.
• A lively picture and tape scenario presents structures in context.
• Graphs, charts, and illustrations engage learners in using English in real, practical situations.

The Just Series is a flexible set of teaching materials for use on their own, or in any combination, or as a set to form a complete integrated course. The consistent methodological approach used throughout each book allows for them to be easily used together.

Each Just Skills book has been written with the same teaching approach as the Just Right course based on the same corpus of material; repackaged according to skills content and presented in a more learner-centred way.

• a single consistent methodological approach throughout each book
• designed for individual skills and language development
• learner-centred approach, with each unit containing clear aims, motivating topics and interesting practice activities
• each book contains an answer key

This best-seller presents grammatical structures through sophisticated and up-to-date contexts. The wide range of communicative activities, newly simplified charts, and an expanded writing section lead students from grammar recognition to production.

• Deductive activities involving authentic readings, error correction exercises, and a new Focus on Writing section reinforce the integration of grammar and writing.
• Workbook provides extensive additional exercises for classroom use or self-study.
• Engaging topics such as social changes, the history of McDonald's, and alternative medicine suit the interests of both community college and IEP students.
• Expanded Instructor's Manual includes testing materials.

A fresh approach to grammar through a set of interlinked grammar resources - reference book, practice book, interactive CD-ROM.

• Complete coverage of all the topics teachers and learners really need.
• Unnecessary jargon eliminated making explanations clear and simple.
• Presents up-to-the-minute English usage based on corpus research.
• Reliable explanations and guidance designed to solve learners' grammar problems.
• Interactive CD-ROM including tests, listening, and over 1,000 grammar hints.
• Each component may be used individually or as a set.

The Cambridge Grammar of English is a major reference grammar from the world's leading grammar publisher. Using ground breaking language research, it offers clear explanations of spoken and written English based on real everyday usage.

A clear two-part structure makes the book particularly user-friendly. In the first section, A-Z entries give more attention to lexico-grammar and other language areas that tend to be neglected in grammar references. The second section covers traditional grammatical categories such as tense, clause structure and parts of speech.

The accompanying CD-ROM makes the Cambridge Grammar of English even more accessible with:

• The whole book in handy, searchable format.
• Audio recordings of all the examples from the book.
• Links to the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary online for instant definitions of new vocabulary.

All Right! A Guide to Correct English is a practical grammar reference and exercise book for non-native speakers of English. It is based on the most common mistakes made by high-beginners to advanced learners. User-friendly headings, simple explanations, and at-a-glance charts allow the learners to check out rules quickly. A detailed index and an easy-to-use table of contents that can be used with correction codes make self-editing easy. Most of the examples and many of the sentences in the exercises come from actual technical or academic writing of college students. This allows All Right! to reflect what learners really try to express in their writing and as such provides them with familiar contexts.

The comprehensive grammar reference and practice book that helps advanced students refine their English.

• Diagnostic tests identifies the language areas students need to work on
• Comprehensive explanations including sentence construction show how grammar works
• Lots of natural examples and practice help students acquire authentic language
• CAE/CPE task types familiarise students with the format of the exams

Advanced

This comprehensive, corpus-based grammar reference is specially written for the advanced student. It combines explanations of English grammar with information on how, when, and why we use different structures, shows the difference between spoken and written grammar, and includes frequency information on the most common forms.

A Practical English Grammar is a clear, comprehensive reference grammar.

• Clear, concise explanations of structures.
• Example sentences illustrating contemporary spoken and written English.
• Accompanying practice material: two books of exercises.

GrammarWork, English Exercises in Context, Second Edition, by Pamela Peterson Breyer, is a four-level series of exercise books that feature structures tied to meaningful contexts. Self-contained, contextualized exercises are designed for written practice; Make It Work sections enable students to apply what they have learned to realistic situations. Perforated answer keys are included. GrammarWork 1 is for beginning students.

• Instead of abstract theory and examples, students get practice, practice, practice—organized into themes that make it easy to learn and remember the concepts presented.
• Can be used for individual or classroom practice, follow-up, review, or homework.
• Answer keys are included in the back of the book.

TENSE SITUATIONS helps students master the tenses by presenting them in contrast and through challenging, contextualized oral and written activities.

• Explanations and examples are clear and highlight shades of meaning that enable students to avoid awkward or unnatural language.
• Humorous filmstrip stories and picture puzzles portray the abstract notions of time and tense concretely and visually.
• Exercises reinforce learning within real-life situations.

Upper-Intermediate, Advanced and Expert
B2 to C2

Perfect your English - succeed in exams with these diagnostic tests at Upper Intermediate, Advanced and Expert Levels.

• Tests students' knowledge of the most challenging areas of grammar and usage
• Refers learners to the in-depth explanations in Practical English Usage, Third Edition, to help them really understand the language point
• Helps students understand subtle differences in meaning in English
• Motivates students who want to become skilled speakers of English
• Provides ideal practice for students preparing for exams

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Intermediate to Advanced

From word to phrase to sentence, this new lexical approach to grammar builds natural idiomatic English.

Natural Grammar shows you how one hundred important English keywords work, the phrases they generate, and the links they make. The emphasis is on natural-sounding language. Plenty of practice is provided in language building.

• 100 double-page spreads with explanations and exercises.
• Reference area with four clear sections: definitions, grammar patterns, collocations, and set phrases.
• Examples of real language from corpus research.
• Varied exercises which practise and expand language.
• Idioms and natural phrases.
• Language notes on usage.

Winner of the 2004 British Council ELT Innovation Award

• ode-i>Intermediate Grammar leads the student away from the beginner's concern with form and dependence on memorization, to a new awareness of the meanings and uses of structures and a new creativity and confidence in communication.
• It introduces grammatical structures in authentic language and contexts.
• It explains each structure accurately but without overwhelming the student, pointing out differences between spoken and written language.
• A wealth of exercises is provided for practice, ranging from controlled work on form to more communicative work on meaning and use. The practice tasks are intellectually engaging, calling upon students' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving skills.
• Self-study features encourage learner independence.
• Chapter Summaries facilitate review by providing useful overviews of form, meaning, and use.
• A Glossary of Grammar Terms gives a concise explanation of all the terms used in the book.
• Appendices provide essential information on verbs, spelling, and pronunciation.
• A detailed Index ensures that students can access the information in a number of ways without necessarily knowing grammatical terms.
• A split edition in two volumes is available.
• A Teacher's Book provides presentation ideas, extension activities, photocopiable assessment quizzes, and an answer key.

A series of  English rules and practice in three books: elementary, pre-intermediate and intermediate.

• The grammar syllabus for the series closely matches the syllabus found in most major coursebook series.
• Every unit contains concise grammar explanations, followed by extended exercise practice, so that learners can really master the grammar topic they are studying.
• There is a With Answers and Without Answers edition at each of the three levels.
• The Without Answers edition is ideal for homework, and the With Answers edition for self-study.

Beginner to Intermediate

Grammar reference in a clear, handy format.

• It covers the grammatical structures and communicative functions that are generally taught in the first three or four yearsof English.
• Each item is explained in easy language, demonstrated in example sentences, and cross referenced to other sections where relevant.
• The neat and attractive layout makes the content readily accessible to both students and teachers.

Grammar Clips provides a brief overview of twenty-five English verb tenses and other key grammar points. It engages students in the most essential grammar points through a unique approach: easy to understand grammar charts, simple animations, live action video dialogs, and quick comprehension checks.

• 25 key grammar points include an extensive focus on verb tenses.
• Charts, rules, and animation clarify and explain grammar concepts.
• Live action video clips model each grammar point.
• Onscreen model exercises with pop-up answers allow students to check their understanding.

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Grammar Troublespots offers a collection of the most problematic rules of grammar and provides students with a concise guide to avoiding grammar errors in their writing.

An essential supplement to any program, Practice: Grammar provides abundant opportunities for students to develop and master grammar and vocabulary skills.

• Practice: Grammar consists of 16 sections, each of which focuses on a specific grammar point. Chapters begin with high-interest reading passages to provide context as the lessons progress in difficulty.
• Ideal for standardized and TOEFL® test preparation.

Oxford Living Grammar helps you use grammar with confidence:

• Understand grammar and when to use it
• Practise using grammar in real situations
• Have plenty of practice with 4-page units for each grammar topic
• Learn new words and expressions with the Word focus boxes
• Use and review what you have learned in the Over to you exercises

PLUS interactive Oxford Living Grammar Context-Plus CD-ROM helps you:

• Develop and take part in your own dialogues using he listening mazes
• Create your own readign texts using the reading mazes
• Practise your grammar with more exercises for each grammar topic
• Build your vocabulary with more Word focus exercises
• Review your progress using the tests

• Grammar targets introduced in context, with a variety of text types including dialogues, narratives, letters, and emails
• Grammar form and function explained in clear, well-organized charts
• Confidence with each grammar target gained through a carefully-controlled progression of activities
• Listening activities help learners encounter grammar targets in real-life situations, leading to greater comprehension
• Each unit includes a review section to consolidate learners' grasp on all grammar targets covered in the unit