The Least You Should Know about English: Writing Skills (13th edition)
Most English textbooks cover more than you need to know. This book will present the least you should know in order to write with clarity and confidence. Improving your writing skills doesn’t require memorizing complex grammatical terms like gerund, auxiliary verb, or demonstrative pronoun. You can write well without knowing such technical labels if you understand certain key concepts—what we call “the least you should know about English.” The concepts covered in the four parts of this book progress from smaller structures to larger ones but can be approached in any order.
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English (4th Edition)A revised and updated edition of the iconic grammar guide for the 21st century.
In this expanded and updated edition of Woe Is I, former editor at The New York Times Book Review Patricia T. O'Conner unties the knottiest grammar tangles with the same insight and humor that have charmed and enlightened readers of previous editions for years. With fresh insights into the rights, wrongs, and maybes of English grammar and usage, O'Conner offers in Woe Is I down-to-earth explanations and plain-English solutions to the language mysteries that bedevil all of us.
Irregular Verbs: The Ultimate Guide is for students of English who need to learn and practice the most commonly used irregular verbs, It was written as a self-study material. Do you have problems with English Irregular Verbs? Then concentrate on the ones you really need to know! - 1,600 sentences to study and practise the most important irregular verbs! - A self-study reference and practice book which can also be used for classroom work. - Easy to Use: 10 example sentences clearly written for each verb...
This is a useful list of some of the phrases that are tested in the Cambridge English CAE examination. Many of these phrases frequently come up in the Key Word Transformation task. Some KWT exercises have been included.
