Advanced Grammar
A grammar book for learners aged 14 to adult: GCSE and A level students, college and university writers, and anyone who writes at work. One clear topic per unit: punctuation for effect and rhythm, comma splices and run-on sentences, quotations and citations, numbers, titles and abbreviations; nominalisation, intensifiers and hedges; sentence variety, fronting and inversion, cleft sentences, parallel structure, dangling and misplaced modifiers, periodic and loose sentences; tense consistency, the historic and literary present, mood and modality, agreement with data, criteria and none, and singular they; Greek and Latin roots, hyphenated compounds, etymology, academic vocabulary, precision and concision; academic and professional register, tone, rhetorical devices and plain English; and eleven pairs of commonly confused words, the misuse of literally, and the grocer’s apostrophe. Follows the national curriculum for English in England. Every unit has a worked example and practice questions, with answers, a glossary and an end-of-book check.
