Here is quick review of this book (Oxford practice grammar) which is offers excellent materials included a large variety of grammatical topics. Every chapter started with detailed explanation with examples. So it is very useful book for self-study. Following are the main contents of this book
Contents
- Introduction
- Words and sentences
- Word classes: (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc)
- Sentence structure: (subject, verb, object, etc)
- Direct and indirect
- The present continuous
- The present simple
- Present continuous or simple?
- State verbs and action verbs
- Present tenses
- The past simple
- The past continuous
- Past continuous or simple?
- Past simple and past continuous
- Introduction to the future
- Will and shall
- Be going to
- Will and be going to
- Present tenses for the future
- Short forms, e.g it’s, don’t
- Emphatic do
- Will, would, shall and should
- It may/could/must have been, etc
- Modal verbs
- The passive
- Passive verb forms
- Active and passive (1)
- Active and passive (2)
- Special passive structures
- Have something done
- To be done and being done