Explains why teaching only how to form the passive voice is insufficient. Introduces the principle that the passive is used to talk about what happens TO someone or something, explaining why some grammatically correct passives are nonetheless wrong in practice.
A grammar series teaching English in context at intermediate level, covering reported speech and backshift, the present perfect, modal verbs, conditionals, the passive voice, and conjunctions, with attention to common errors and descriptive grammar.
An advanced grammar series covering the present perfect and aspect, modal verbs, reported speech and backshift, the passive voice, phrasal and prepositional verbs, gerunds and participles, determiners, and dependent and noun clauses.