Introduction

What is Improve Your Grammar? Improve Your Grammar is a study and practice book for students attending or planning to attend university or college. It concentrates on the specific areas of grammar and coherence where students frequently make mistakes, and deals with these in a straightforward, accessible way. The units feature: clear, jargon-free explanations a consistent focus on key grammar and coherence areas examples of typical student errors, with corrections tips and key advice a realistic academic context across a range of subject areas easy-to-use practice exercises, with answers. What are the book’s aims? Improve Your Grammar aims to: correct students’ grammatical mistakes encourage students to write in an appropriate academic style extend students’ range of expression help students to break out of bad habits and thereby improve overall performance in their subject areas. What kind of problems does it deal with? Improve Your Grammar addresses common problems experienced by a large number of students, such as: writing sentences that are grammatically incomplete using commas, semicolons and inverted commas incorrectly