TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomson, A.J. 
AU  - Martinet,  A.V. 
TI  - A practical English grammar
SN  - 9780195620535
U1  - 415 
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Oxford : 
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers
KW  - English language -- Grammar -- 1950-
KW  - English language
KW  - English language -- Grammar - For non-English speaking students
N1  - Includes index; Preface to the fourth edition -- 1 Articles and one, a little/a few, this, that -- 2 Nouns -- 3 Adjectives -- 4 Adverbs -- 5 all, each, every, both, neither, either, some, any, no, none -- 6 Interrogatives: wh-? words and how? -- 7 Possessives, personal and reflexive pronouns: my, mine, I, myself etc. -- 8 Relative pronouns and clauses -- 9 Prepositions -- 10 Introduction to verbs -- 11 be, have, do -- 12 may and can for permission and possibility -- 13 can and be able for ability -- 14 ought, should, must, have to, need for obligation -- 15 must, have, will and should for deduction and assumption -- 16 The auxiliaries dare and used -- 17 The present tenses -- 18 The past and perfect tenses -- 19 The future -- 20 The sequence of tenses -- 21 The conditional -- 22 Other uses of will/would, shall/should -- 23 The infinitive -- 24 The gerund -- 25 Infinitive and gerund constructions -- 26 The participles -- 27 Commands, requests, invitations, advice, suggestions -- 28 The subjunctive -- 29 care, like, love, hate, prefer, wish -- 30 The passive voice -- 31 Indirect speech -- 32 Conjunctions -- 33 Purpose -- 34 Clauses of reason, result, concession, comparison, time -- 35 Noun clauses -- 36 Numerals, dates, and weights and measures -- 37 Spelling rules -- 38 Phrasal verbs --
39 List of irregular verbs -- Index; 
    
    
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