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English Grammar

A University Course

Third Edition

Welcome !

Welcome to the companion website for Angela Downing’s best-selling comprehensive descriptive grammar. With an extensive glossary to accompany the text, alongside extra tasks and essay questions based on the book’s twelve self-contained chapters, this is an invaluable online resource to accompany the essential coursebook for students of English grammar.

How to use this website

The Resources section contains flashcards which relate to the chapters in English Grammar: A University Course. As in the book, the chapters are divided into units, and each unit contains several exercises. 1.1.1, therefore, corresponds to Chapter 1, Unit 1, Exercise 1. In some units the author has included brain teasers, which correspond to the relevant exercise. So a brain teaser for exercise 1 in unit 1, chapter 1 would be labelled 1.1.1(2).

To use the flashcards, click the chapter name for the resources you want to access, and read the associated “explanatory material”. Then scroll down to access the relevant flashcard, labelled as above. You will see the exercise displayed on the flashcard; you can “flip” it to find the solution, then click the arrow to the right to move on to the next exercise in that group. You can quickly return to the other flashcards by clicking the button in the top right corner of the flashcards.