Natural Grammar

The keywords of English and how they work.

Natural Grammar The key words of English and how they work

Scott Thornbury

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This book provides an innovative approach to grammar, showing how one hundred important English keywords like work, the phrases they generate, and the links they make.

  • Level: Intermediate to Advanced (B1-C2)

This book provides an innovative approach to grammar, showing how one hundred important English keywords like work, the phrases they generate, and the links they make.

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  • 100 double-page spreads with explanations and exercises.
  • Reference area with four clear sections: definitions, grammar patterns, collocations, and set phrases.
  • Examples of real language from corpus research.
  • Varied exercises which practise and expand language.
  • Idioms and natural phrases.
  • Language notes on usage.

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This book provides an innovative approach to grammar, showing how one hundred important English keywords like work, the phrases they generate, and the links they make.

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Natural Grammar Teacher's Site gives you useful materials to support your teaching including a month-by-month study calendar and a Grammar index - a list of all the words in Natural Grammar and how they map to traditional grammar topics. There are also extra teaching ideas from Scott Thornbury, and a chance to send us your ideas about the book.

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Puzzles, activities, tests, and downloads to help learners practise and expand their knowledge of the natural grammar keywords.

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