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Fifty chapters of important information that you need while you are learning to speak American English. This book answers important questions asked by ESL learners. This book will help you improve your English. You can use this book with or without a teacher. This book is the fruit of 9 years of teaching English as a Second Language. It can be used by anyone who is learning American English as a second language, or by teachers of ESL in their classes. It contains lessons on pronunciation and grammar. This book will explain when you use The, A, Make, Do, Some, Any, Can, Could, May and Might. It explains several different ways that you can use the all-purpose verb Get. It shows you which verbs are followed by To and which verbs are followed by another verb ending in ING. It gets into the difficult area of American English pronunciation by listing words which all contain the same sound. It's easier to learn how words are pronounced when they are grouped together. Many of my students asked for more information about those verbs with prepositions - those that can be separated from their prepositions and those that can't. I've illustrated these verbs with many examples. You can use the book with or without a teacher. This book answers many of the questions that my students have asked me. Chapter. 1: Definite Article THE and Indefinite Article A Ch. 2: The Difference Between A and ONE Ch. 3: The Difference Between MAKE and DO Ch. 4: The Difference Between SOME and ANY Ch. 6: At, In, or On: Where Are You?: Prepositions of Place and Time Ch. 7: Can, Could, May, Might: What's the Difference? Ch. 8: Either, Neither, Or, Nor: What's the Difference? Ch. 9: Uses of GET in English (The Only Verb You Need?) Ch. 10: Isn't it and Other Question Tags Ch. 11: Short Answers to Questions Ch. 12: Verbs Followed by Present Participle (-ING) Ch. 13: Verbs Followed by Infinitive (TO) Ch. 14: Verbs Followed by Either (-ING) or (TO) Ch. 15: Verbs Followed by Neither (-ING) nor (TO) Ch. 16: Pronouncing TH in THIN Unvoiced TH Sound Ch. 17: Pronouncing TH in THE Voiced TH Sound Ch. 18: How Do You Pronounce THE? Ch. 19: Words With the Sound of I in PIN Ch. 20: Words With the Sound of E in PEN Ch. 21: Words With the Sound of A in CAT Ch. 22: Words With the Sound of U in CUP Ch. 23: Words With the Sound of AW in PAW Ch. 24: Words With the Vowel Sound in BOOK Ch. 25: Words With the Sound of A in FATHER Ch. 26: Words with the Sound of CH as in Charlie Ch. 27: Words With the Sound of U as in YOU Ch. 28: Now You Hear it, Now You Don't: The Barely Audible Vowel Ch. 29: There's no Letter for this Sound! (The French J ) Ch. 30: Where Does the Stress Accent Go? Ch. 31: Words Whose Sound Is a Surprise Ch. 32: Words that Don't Rhyme Ch. 33: Words that Sound the Same (but Shouldn't) Ch. 34: Silent Letters: Write Them but Don't Say Them Ch. 35: From Noun to Verb by Shifting the Stress Accent Ch. 36: From Noun to Verb by Changing the Sound of S Ch. 37: From Noun to Verb by Changing the Vowel Sound Ch. 38: Verbs That Always Stay Next to their Prepositions: Not Separable Ch. 39: Verbs That Can Leave their Prepositions Behind: Separable Ch. 40: Verbs with Two Prepositions: Important Expressions Ch. 41: I Drink Espresso, but Not Right Now: English Present Tense Ch. 42: The English Past Tenses: Why So Many? Ch. 43: The Sound of ED How Do You Pronounce the Simple Past Tense? Ch. 44: Rulebreakers: The Irregular Verbs Ch. 45: Comprises or Consists of? How an Innocent Word Can Confuse Millions Ch. 46: One of your Relatives is Missing!: Omitting the Relative Pronoun Ch. 47: All Your Nouns in a Row: The English Word Virus Ch. 48: Getting Your Two Cents In Ch. 49: Yooda Weeda: Mumbling and Eating Your Words Ch. 50: Some Nouns Don't Count

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