A classic developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced students of English, Understanding and Using English Grammar is a comprehensive reference grammar as well as a stimulating and teachable classroom text.

While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the Fourth Edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities. Some of the new features are:

• - Innovative warm-up exercises that precede the grammar charts and introduce points to be taught
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• - Structure-based listening exercises ranging from casual speech to academic content
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• - Academic readings that highlight the targeted grammar structures
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• - Greatly expanded speaking practice with extensive pair, group and class work
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• - Corpus-informed syllabus that reflects the discourse patterns of spoken and written English
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• - Audio CDs and listening script in the back of the Student Book