... to focus solely on how English forms the possessive.
Before Shakespeare’s time the possessive form of nouns was spelled exactly the same as the
plural form: with an -s. By Shakespeare’s time, ... nition arises with the possessive forms
of irregular nouns that become plural by changing their vowels rather than by adding a plural -s.
For example:
SINGULAR PLURAL
Noun Possessive Plural Possessive
man ... woman
The pronunciation of the possessive -’s (whether singular or plural) or -s’ is governed by the
same rules that govern the pronunciation of the plural -s:
/s/ if the noun ends in a voiceless...
... perspective away from
grammar as a list of arbitrary problems, and towards grammar as a means of free expression.
We have tried to produce a grammar of real English the English that people speak ... usage.
Some great grammars of English for example Otto Jespersen's A Modern EnglishGrammar
support each statement with citations from published books, just as the major dictionaries of
English ... compilers. It is the first
grammar of its kind, and it is deferent in many respects from other kinds of grammar.
This grammar attempts to make accurate statements about English, as seen in the huge...
...
exactly alike.
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A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR
EXERCISES 1
CONTENTS
Articles
PEG chapter I
1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles: ... very good train service from here to . . . city centre and most people go to . .
. work by train. You can go by . . . bus too, of course, but you can't get a season ticket
on . . . bus.
22 ... . Mr Smith who works in . . . box office or . . . other Mr Smith?
24 Did you come by . . . air? ~
No, I came by . . . sea. I had a lovely voyage on . . . Queen Elizabeth II.
25 . . . most of...
... yesterday?
by heart: by memorizing
- He knows many passages from Shakespeare by heart.
- Do you know all the idioms you have studied in this book by heart?
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ESSENTIAL ENGLISH IDIOMS
Elementary
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Cashier: No, I forgot. Thanks for reminding me.
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REVIEW-LESSONS 1 TO 13
A. Match the idiom...
... is part of a person's name: Mr and Mrs Grundy the
Grundys.
d We do not change y in by: stand-bys, lay-bys.
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2 We keep y before i.
copy copying hurry hurrying
NOTE
We change ie to y ... cliffs, roofs, safes. A few have alternative
forms, e.g. scarfs /scarves.
1 Some plurals are formed by changing the vowel sound.
foot feet goose geese man men
tooth teeth mouse mice woman
women
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