ENGLISH GRAMMAR PRACTICE combines explanations of grammar points and practice exercises in a single volume. It

• is an excellent practice book on English grammar for first year college students, senior secondary students and students preparing for competitive examinations
• can be used as a textbook in class or for self-study
• covers a complete range of grammar items/structures like word classes, phrases, clauses, simple and complex sentences, tenses, prepositions, active and passive sentences, direct and indirect speech, etc.
• has simple and easy explanations of each grammar point with illustrations to support the explanation
• has a large number of graded exercises for practice: elementary exercises which develop the confidence of a student in using English, intermediate exercises to further consolidate the confidence and improve the competence of a student and advanced exercises to make a student use English effectively
• acts as a link between the correct use of sentences and connected discourse

Raj N Bakshi was formerly Director, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Regional Centre, Lucknow and then a member of the visiting faculty at the Universities of Taiz and Aden in Yemen. At present, he is on the faculty at the Regional Centre, Lucknow. He has been involved in the teaching of English for more than three decades. In his long career, he has been both a teacher and a teacher-trainer, a writer and an administrator. Other books by him include A Course in English Grammar.

1. Simple sentences 1
2. Simple sentences 2
3. Countable, uncountable and proper nouns
4. Countable and uncountable nouns
5. Possessive, gender and collective nouns
6. Articles
7. The definite article and the zero article
8. Some, any, a lot of, (a) little, (a) few
9. Main verbs
10. Auxiliary verbs
11. 'Be' and 'have' and modal auxiliaries
12. The simple present and present continuous tenses
13. The simple past and the present perfect tenses
14. The present perfect continuous tense
15. The past continuous tense
16. The past perfect and past perfect continuous tenses
17. Expressing future time 1
18. Expressing future time 2
19. Negatives
20. Some more negatives
21. Yes-no questions
22. Wh-questions
23. Question tags
24. Adjectives and their order
25. Degrees of adjectives
26. Participle adjectives and functions of adjectives
27. Adverbs 1
28. Adverbs 2
29. Adverbs 3
30. Modal verbs 1
31. Modal verbs 2
    Ability, permission, offers and invitations
32. Modal verbs 3
    Possibility, requests and suggestions
33. Modal verbs 4
    Necessity and obligation
34. Complex sentences
35. Noun clauses t
36. Noun clauses 2
37. Relative clauses
38. Relative clauses 2
39. Adverbial clauses 1
40. Adverbial clauses 2
41. Infinitive
42. Gerunds I
43. Gerunds 2
44. Infinitives or gerunds
45. Direct and indirect speech 1
46. Direct and indirect speech 2
47. Direct and indirect speech 3
48. Active and passive voice 1
49. Active and passive voice 2
50. Active and passive voice 3
51. Prepositions I
52. Prepositions 2
53. Prepositions 3
54. Phrasal verbs