Get control over those difficult areas of English grammar. Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners is focused on those grammar topics that might pose special problems for you, especially if English is not your first language. Because it targets advanced topics, you will quickly zero in on what holds you back from fluency. And like with all of the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect books, you can practice through exercises and reinforce your knowledge. The book includes 775 exercises and expertise from Mark Lester, an ESL expert in grammar who founded the highly respected ESL department at the University of Hawaii. He authored the most popular college classroom grammar in the country. Topics covered in this title include: noun plurals, possessive nouns and personal pronouns, articles and quantifiers, adjectives, verb forms and tenses, talking about present time, talking about past time, talking about future time, causative verbs, the passive, the structure of adjective clauses, restrictive and nonrestrictive adjective clauses, gerunds, infinitives, and noun clauses.