English for Academic Research: Grammar Exercises

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Wallwork, Adrian (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: English for Academic Research
• Θέματα: Education.; Grammar.; Language and education.; Language Education.; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.

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 hundre...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Nouns: plurals, countable vs uncountable etc
• 2 Genitive: the possessive form of nouns
• 3 indefinite article (a/an), definite article (the), and zero article (Ø)
• 4 Quantifiers: some, any, little, few, a lot of, lots, much, many
• 5 Relative pronouns: that, which, who, whose, what
• 6 Present tenses
• 7 Past tenses
• 8 Future tenses
• 9 Conditional forms: zero, first, second, third, mixed
• 10 Passive vs active: impersonal vs personal forms
• 11 Infinitive, -ing form (gerund), suggest, recommend
• 12 Modal verbs
• 13 Phrasal verbs
• 14 Word order
• 15 Comparative and superlative forms
• 16 Numbers
• 17 Acronyms and abbreviations
• 18 Titles
• 19 Abstracts
• 20 Introduction and Review of the Literature
• 21 Materials and Methods
• 22 Results
• 23 Discussion
• 24 Conclusions
• 25 Abstract contrasted with Conclusions
• 26 Acknowledgements.- 27 Mini tests
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Editing Service
• Index.