English for Academic Research: Grammar Exercises

This book is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English grammar. It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-native authors, several hundred emails, 500 abstracts by PhD students, and over 1000 hours of teaching researchers how to write and present research papers.

The exercises include the following areas:

• active vs passive, use of we
• articles (a/an, the, zero) and quantifiers (some, any, few etc)
• conditionals and modals
• countable and uncountable nouns
• genitive
• infinitive vs -ing form
• numbers, acronyms, abbreviations
• relative clauses and which vs that
• tenses (e.g. simple present, simple past, present perfect)
• word order