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Oxford Practice Grammar Basic without Key
The right explanations and practice for your language level, plus the only CD-ROM with interactive 'find and correct the mistake' exercises.
270 pages, Paperback
First published March 9, 2006
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Ken Paterson
23 books21 followersKen Paterson is the author of a number of grammar practice books for students learning or improving their English, and a novel, The Story of the Cloth (an “engrossing tale” told with “exceptional prose” - Kirkus Reviews).
Ken was born in Scotland, but grew up in Bath, in the south-west of England. He started writing grammar books while he was director of English language teaching at the University of Westminster in London.
Late one evening, as he was walking home through Regent’s Park, he stopped thinking about noun phrases and relative clauses, and remembered instead a time when he was sitting in a small square in Cordoba, reading about the Muslim conquest of Spain – in particular about a brief ‘golden age’ in the city, when Christians, Jews and Muslims were able to engage peacefully with one another. There was a moment of stillness in the square and he found himself imagining how it might have appeared a millennium before, with scholars from different religions meeting in the shade of the trees. And afterwards, he thought: what if the scene had been captured in some way, as a painting, perhaps? Would it have been censored or hidden in the dangerous years to come? Whose hands might it have fallen into?
The Story of the Cloth provided the answer.
Ken was born in Scotland, but grew up in Bath, in the south-west of England. He started writing grammar books while he was director of English language teaching at the University of Westminster in London.
Late one evening, as he was walking home through Regent’s Park, he stopped thinking about noun phrases and relative clauses, and remembered instead a time when he was sitting in a small square in Cordoba, reading about the Muslim conquest of Spain – in particular about a brief ‘golden age’ in the city, when Christians, Jews and Muslims were able to engage peacefully with one another. There was a moment of stillness in the square and he found himself imagining how it might have appeared a millennium before, with scholars from different religions meeting in the shade of the trees. And afterwards, he thought: what if the scene had been captured in some way, as a painting, perhaps? Would it have been censored or hidden in the dangerous years to come? Whose hands might it have fallen into?
The Story of the Cloth provided the answer.
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September 13, 2013
The way it explains the rules is simplified and nice. The exercises aren't bad either.
November 21, 2014
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