How to Improve Your English Grammar

I have studied English for two years in N.Y. When I came here, my listening and speaking skills were terrible, though my grammar and reading skills were not bad. Learning another language is not easy. Therefore, I'd like to say how to improve English skills and my experiences through this blog. I hope my information helps you if you are interested in studying English. Also, if you have different information to improve English skills, please, let me know it.

First of all, today, I want to recommend a very good English grammar book - "Understanding and Using English Grammar (Third Edition)" by AZAR. Many ESL teachers use the book when they teach English because there are a lot of examples in the book and explanation of English grammar is more clear and organized than other books. Actually, I didn’t know the book first, but most of my English teachers recommended that I study the book, so I got it and I studied the book. After then, I love it. If you want to improve your English skills, you should study it at least one time. If you study it, you will like it. Also, if you study it again and again, you will have very powerful English skills.

As you see an image of the book above, that is my book. While I studied, I posted on some parts I couldn’t understand very well, in the book, so I could see them later again. There is “Contents” in the book as follows.

Contents

Chapter 1. Overview of Verb Tenses
Chapter 2. Present and Past, Simple and Progressive
Chapter 3. Perfect and Perfect Progressive Tenses
Chapter 4. Future Time
Chapter 5. Adverb Clauses of Time and Review of Verb Tenses
Chapter 6. Subject-Verb Agreement
Chapter 7. Nouns
Chapter 8. Pronouns
Chapter 9. Modals, Part 1
Chapter 10. Modals, Part 2
Chapter 11. The Passive
Chapter 12. Noun Clauses
Chapter 13. Adjective Clauses
Chapter 14. Gerunds and Infinitives, Part 1
Chapter 15. Gerunds and Infinitives, Part 2
Chapter 16. Coordinating Conjunctions
Chapter 17. Adverb Clauses
Chapter 18. Reduction of Adverb Clauses to Modifying Adverbial Phrases
Chapter 19. Connectives that Express Cause and Effect, Contrast and Condition
Chapter 20. Conditional Sentences and Wishes

Appendix Supplementary Grammar
Unit A: Basic Grammar Terminology
Unit B: Questions
Unit C: Contractions
Unit D: Negatives.
Unit E: Prepositions Combinations
Unit F: Connectives to Give Examples and to Continue an Idea
Unit G: Verb Form Review Exercises
Answer Key

This book is very useful to improve your English skills, so I hope you study it if you don’t yet.