Updated and expanded for 2023!
You will learn 50 ways to notice, understand, and practice different grammatical structures in English. The book is divided into six sections:
1. The Big Picture (general advice and strategies)
2. Nouns and Verbs
3. Adjectives and Adverbs
4. Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Articles
5. Sentences and their Parts
Other Topics
You do not need to be living in an English-speaking country or be currently taking an English class to use this book. However, students who are already in a class can also use this book to study and learn more effectively.
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Learning another language is never fast, but the Fifty Ways to Practice series will speed things up by showing you how to practice more efficiently and effectively both inside and outside the classroom. It is useful for beginning through advanced levels.
Maggie Sokolik, Ph.D. was born in Olympia, Washington. She is a writer/editor living in the Bay Area. She graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and received a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA. She directs the writing program at UC Berkeley.
She is also the instructor for a popular online writing course, College Writing 2x, as well as the BerkeleyX Book Club, both offered through edx.org. These courses are offered free of charge to readers and writers around the world, and have attracted over a quarter million students to date.