Books by Ed Swick

This bestselling workbook for beginning ESL (English as a Second Language) learners helps you master English grammar-now with a streaming audio answer key via the McGraw Hill Language Lab app.Understanding the rules of grammar is the first step in learning a language, and extensive practice will help you gain mastery. In Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar for ESL Learners, Premium Fourth Edition, you'll get the best of both worlds, with crystal-clear explanations, realistic examples, and dozens of exercises in an engaging variety of formats.From present tense regular verbs to double object pronouns, this comprehensive guide covers all aspects of English grammar, focusing on the practical aspects of English as it is really spoken. You'll especially appreciate the clarity of presentation, with time-saving vocabulary panels that eliminate having to look words up, advice on how to avoid common errors, and a detailed answer key that allows for quick, easy progress checks. With three review chapters to assess retention of key concepts and 80 quizzes available via the McGraw Hill Language Lab app, Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar for ESL Learners, Premium Fourth Edition, gives you the skills you need to speak, understand and write English with confidence.Features:NEW: Streaming audio recordings to help with comprehension and pronunciation, available through the McGraw Hill Language Lab appAccessible style and format: Simple grammar reviews with clear examples are followed by an engaging variety of exercises-including multiple choice, fill-in sentences, and moreThree review chapters test overall comprehension with 25 exercises (250 questions)Supported by 80 interactive quizzes via the McGraw Hill Language Lab app to help you further assess what you've learnedIdeal for in-class or independent study

Build your mastery of German grammar with the most focused review and practice workbook for beginning to intermediate learners-now with extensive audio support!Understanding the rules of grammar is the first step in learning a language, but gaining true mastery requires reinforcing your knowledge with extensive practice. In German Grammar Drills, you'll get all the practice you need to build confidence in your German language skills.Each chapter in German Grammar Drills starts with a review of the concepts at hand, with helpful examples and an extensive progression of rigorous drill exercises. The book includes a final review section, with 45 interactive exercises available in the McGraw Hill Language Lab app. The on-the-go study aid is newly enhanced in this edition with audio recordings of the answers, helping you improve your skills in both listening and speaking the German language.Features:NEW: Audio recordings of the answer key to more than 50 exercises, available through the McGraw Hill Language Lab appNo other book on the market focuses so exclusively on practiceAccessible style and format: Simple grammar reviews with clear examples are followed by an engaging variety of exercisesIncludes 45 interactive exercises (via app and online) allowing you to assess what you've learnedTopics include determining the gender of words, accusative-dative prepositions, der words and ein words, relative pronouns, infinitive clauses, comparatives and superlatives, word order, and more

Practice Makes Perfect helps you put your German vocabulary and grammar skills together! You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed--but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your second language would be nearly impossible. Practice Makes Perfect: German Sentence Builders picks up from where other grammar books leave off, showing you the variety of structures and how to combine them to make solid sentences. And like every Practice Makes Perfect title, these books feature crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of opportunities to practice, practice, practice!

Updated premium edition of the fast, painless guide to learning the fundamentals of German

Using examples, reading passages, and practice exercises, this title helps you grow your understanding and usage of such grammar topics as verbs tenses and moods. It also increases your ability to communicate in German using idiomatic expressions with the appropriate structures: verbs, nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in a variety of contexts.

Helps you tackle head-on all the hurdles that you find hard about learning German. This title covers those areas where you might have difficulty - areas such as der vs die vs das, capitalization and punctuation, subject-verb agreement, determiners and adverbs of degree, and phrasal verbs.

Practice Makes Perfect German Vocabulary

Presentation of pronoun and preposition usage in English, combined with practice for beginning and intermediate ESL learners. This book offers a detailed examination of these two essential aspects of grammar, which language learners need to master to communicate with confidence. It provides explanations of the usage of pronouns and prepositions.

Based on the successful approach of the Practice Makes Perfect series, this book offers a clear and engaging presentation of all aspects of pronoun and preposition usage, combined with extensive practice, for beginning and intermediate language learners of German.

This book provides essential concepts regarding verbs and grammar, as well as an appendix of helpful verb tables.

Combining the features of aworkbook and reference manual, this book clearly andsystematically explains how the verb system workswhile providing more than 150 drills for practice.