Are you struggling with English as a First Additional Language? Then Study & Master English is for you. This Study Guide has been especially designed to help you master the language component of the national curriculum. Featuring: * detailed explanation of tricky language usage * lots of exercises, so you can practise before the exams * advice on how to do comprehensions, essays and summaries * example formats for letters, CVs, reports and reviews * all the answers, so you can check your own work. The Study & Master English Study Guide is an invaluable tool to help you pass your English exam with flying colours!

 

There are 292 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: Learning Outcome 4: Language. Introduction. Language knowledge and skills. Exercise 1: Breaking a sentence into its parts of speech; Exercise 2: Types of nouns; Example 3: Plural nouns; Exercise 4: Nouns showing gender or size; Exercise 5: Ordering adjectives; Exercise 6: Adjectives of degree; Exercise 7: Similes and metaphors; Exercise 8: Abbreviations and acronyms; Exercise 9: Synonyms; Exercise 10: Using one word for a phrase; Exercise 11: Antonyms; Exercise 12: Irony and sarcasm; Exercise 13: Exaggerations and rhetorical questions; Exercise 14: Connotations; Exercise 15: Determiners; Exercise 16: Pronouns, and the first, second and third person; Exercise 17: Personal pronouns; Exercise 18: Possessive determiners; Exercise 19: Possessive pronouns; Exercise 20: Sound devices; Exercise 21: Demonstrative determiners; Exercise 22: Demonstrative pronouns; Exercise 23: Using a dictionary; Exercise 24: Translating, and borrowing words from other languages; Exercise 25: Understanding a word by thinking about its root word and other parts; Exercise 26: Prefixes and suffixes; Exercise 27: Prepositions; Exercise 28: Showing possession in singular nouns; Exercise 29: Showing possession in plural nouns; Exercise 30: Words in bold or italics, and underlined words; Exercise 31: Verbs and the first, second and third person; Exercise 32: Present tense and the past tense of verbs; Exercise 33: Simple and progressive aspects of regular verbs in the present tense; Exercise 34: Simple and progressive aspects of irregular verbs in the present tense; Exercise 35: Simple and progressive aspects of regular verbs in the past tense; Exercise 36: Simple and progressive aspects of irregular verbs in the past tense; Exercise 37: Proverbs and famous quotations; Exercise 38: Idioms; Exercise 39: Stereotypes and cliches; Exercise 40: Hyphens; Exercise 41: Audience; Exercise 42: Regular verbs in the present tense and the perfect aspect; Exercise 43: Irregular verbs in the present tense and the perfect aspect; Exercise 44: Purpose; Exercise 45: Regular verbs in the past tense and the perfect aspect; Exercise 46: Irregular verbs in the past tense and the perfect aspect; Exercise 47: Adverbs of manner, time, place and reason; Exercise 49: An adverb of negation - 'not'; Exercise 50: Register; Exercise 51: Style; Exercise 52: Emotive language; Exercise 53: Statements, commands and questions.