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Title: Understanding and Using English Grammar by Betty Schrampfer Azar ISBN: 0-13-191569-X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $973.33

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Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (19 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Simple, clear explanations, examples, and practice!
Comment: I am a professional ESL teacher and this book is probably the most popular one with both the students and the teachers. The grammar points are divided up very well and there are good explanations and examples for most points.

The reason this book is so popular is that the exercises are very simple, something like this:

The children (is/are) playing in the yard right now.

You simply have to choose the right answer from the two. This simplified approach makes learning grammar very easy, but many students want something more difficult and some complain that the book is a little boring. But when has grammar ever been exciting?

Rating: 5
Summary: My Wonderfull Book
Comment: Even thought, this has been my second grammar book, it has been helpful in many ways. But most of all with verb tenses. Since, I am not a native English Speaker, I keep it with me every time. It explain verb tenses perfectly. No other book, in 1 1/2 year studying English, has been so explicit. Now, I am buying another for my nephew. He studies ESOL, but he is not using this book. He feels he need more explanation. He likes the practices in this book; they are very complete and enough. When one finish doing those practices, one really now how to apply any rule in ones life, and the next step is practice talking.

Rating: 5
Summary: Clear and easily understandable
Comment: The geniuses that controlled my education decided that I should skip fourth grade reading because they caught me reading Mark Twain in third grade. I can't imagine what in the WORLD they were thinking, as I came to learn years later that in fourth grade reading they taught - you guessed it - grammar! And boy, did I suffer. My written grammar was absolutely horrendous for years, and even though I continued to be placed in advanced or honors English classes throughout high school, whenever my papers were returned to me the "concept" side came back with an A, and the "grammar" side came back with a D or an F.

There's no substitute for learning young, but this is the closest thing to it. I've never seen a grammar book that's easier to understand than this one. Forget the Idiot's Guides or Dummies books, and invest a little more in this one and the accompanying workbooks. If you're really interested in boning up on your grammar skills, this will be of tremendous assistance.

Also, if you're looking to buy the workbooks, remember that this is the THIRD edition, that it is in blue, and so you should conduct your search for the accompanying workbooks by first identifying those that are blue, and make sure that they're for the third edition. There are several editions available here on Amazon, so buy wisely.