APPLE Grammar is one of the books that any person needs to go back to and refresh his/her faulty memory if he/she doesn't remember much (if any) of the grammar taught in school all those years ago.
In the book, the author Roger B. Rueda* gives explanations in plain, easy-to-understand English. He gives examples galore.
APPLE Grammar is just the refresher course people are looking for. If they are searching for an alternative to memorising Strunk & White, this book is highly recommended by English grammarians.
Although it is designed for self-study, it is also recurrently used as a classroom primer. As a self-study book it is particularly user-friendly.
As a classroom book, the teacher may find themselves feeling rather redundant as the book does all the teaching for them.
Student teachers, English majors, and those newly qualified will find it a useful reference book for themselves.
Roger developed this book to meet an urgent need that students encountered as they try to write. Students produce writing that has too many errors because they have picked up English mostly through their ears and not through their eyes. Many of them are quite fluent in English. But they write sentences without a subject, they use prepositional phrases as the subject of a sentence, and their use of verb tenses is sloppy. So, he decided to help the students develop an awareness of grammatical structure and terminology by using the students' ability to "pick things up" and develop their own inner criteria for correctness.
Grammar is not a fun subject to study. There are lots of confusing rules and an endless amount of terminology to memorise. If one struggles with grammar, APPLE Grammar is exactly what he/she needs.
APPLE Grammar offers another approach to learning how grammar works. This comprehensive guide teaches the details of English. By the time a reader finishes the book, he/she will know how a correct sentence should be devised and what English grammar really is.
Some of the positive attributes of APPLE Grammar include a breakdown of different parts of speech and inclusive examples.
APPLE Grammar is highly recommended to anyone who needs an English refresher or to anyone who is preparing to take a standardised test like TOEFL, TOEIC, and IELTS.
The book is available at Centralbooks nationwide, Eddie Mar in SM City and Robinson’s, and West Visayas State University’s Centre for Foreign Languages, and U.P. bookstore (Look for Prof Julie Ramirez), The Castel Hotel, and Cafe Rino.
More information is available by calling 09068541933.
*Roger B. Rueda is an entertaining teacher, lecturer, poet, fictionist, and author who loves a good laugh but also dedicates himself to teaching people the correct usage of English. His book, A Plain and Practically Lucid English Grammar, is an easy-to-use reference guide. He has a degree in mass communications. He was named a Fellow for Poetry to the UP National Writers' Workshop in 2002 and a Fellow for Fiction to the Iligan National Writers' Workshop of MSU-IIT in 2005. His essays, poems, and short stories have been published in Philippine Panorama, Home Life, The Sunday Times, NCCA Mantala, Panay News's Files, and Hiligaynon. Currently, he works as ESL/writing teacher at a language institute and as reviewer/lecturer at a review centre. He is all of thirty and writes in English, Hiligaynon, and Filipino. Currently, he is writing a Hiligaynon grammar book and compiling Hiligaynon words for his Hiligaynon-English, English Hiligaynon dictionary. He is the managing and articles editor of itravel Philippines magazine based in Cebu City.
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