Practice Makes Perfect: English Articles and Determiners Up Close

Practice Makes Perfect: English Articles and Determiners Up Close by Mark Lester

Learn to master the useful but tricky skill of how to choose the right article or determiner

As a non-native speaker of English, you may have trouble with determiners because, unlike true adjectives, the choice of which article, demonstrative, or quantifier to use is dependent on both the meaning and the grammatical form of the particular noun they modify. Practice Makes Perfect: English Articles and Determiners Up Close helps you untangle this grammar puzzle with clear explanations of how they should be treated and used. And of course you will get hundreds of exercise opportunities to practice, practice, practice your new skills.

Practice Makes Perfect: English Articles and Determiners Up Close - About the Author

Mark Lester is an experienced grammarian, ESL expert, and professor emeritus of Eastern Washington University. He is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen books, including Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners, Practice Makes Perfect English Verb Tenses Up Close, The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage, and The Big Book of English Verbs.