Learning English grammar can be much easier with these recommended books.
A good grammar book can help you to practice more and to become better at English grammar. The list below includes some popular books that will help you complement your class grammar work.
1. Essential Grammar in Use with Answers: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Elementary Learners of English (By Raymond Murphy)
Clarity and ease of use have made this book one of the world’s best seller grammar books for English learners. Intended for Elementary-level learners (A1), the book covers all the grammar areas that you will need at this level, with clear examples, easy-to-follow exercises and answer key.
2. Advanced Grammar in Use with Answers: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Advanced Learners of English (By Martin Hewings)
Illustrated in full colour and with a user-friendly layout, this popular grammar book contains 100 units of grammar reference and practice materials. It is ideal for learners gearing up for the Cambridge Advanced, Proficiency or IELTS Examination. Informed by the Cambridge International Corpus, the book is credited to the authentic and up-to-date language.
3. Basic English Grammar with Audio CD, with Answer Key (By Betty Schrampfer Azar, Stacy Hagen)
The book uses a grammar-based approach integrated with communicative methods to boost the development of all language skills. It engages students in meaningful communication about real actions and things, and their own lives in classroom context. The fourth edition comes with new features, including information in the grammar charts shedding light on differences between spoken and written English, easy-to-follow writing activities, innovative warm-up exercises introducing points to be taught and followed by the grammar charts, newly created exercises for more incremental grammar practice, and structure-based listening exercises for students’ relaxed, reduced speech.
4. Practice Makes Perfect Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners: Advance ESL Grammar (By Mark Lester)
Authored by Mark Lester, an ESL grammar expert and the founder of the highly respected ESP department at the University of Hawaii, the book covers most popular college classroom grammar, including noun plurals, possessive nouns, personal pronouns, adjectives, articles and quantifiers, verb forms and tenses, causative verbs, the passive, adjective clauses, noun clauses, etc. Over 700 exercises will give you highly effective practices.
5. English Grammar in Use: A Self-study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Students of English - With Answers (By Raymond Murphy)
The fourth edition comes with fresh, attractive new design, clear layout and revised and updated examples while retaining the key features of clarity and accessibility that have made the book one of the most popular English grammar books among learners and teachers around the world.
