English in Use/About

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Contents 1 Authors 2 Contributing 3 Templates 3.1 {{English/Navigation}} 3.2 {{English/Exercise}} 4 References

[edit] Authors

If you have contributed to this book, add your name here.

User:Xania - I've edited and created sections for phrasal verbs, articles, capitalization and adjectives

User:Tkorrovi - I copied the initial text here from Goold Brown's public domain grammar

[edit] Contributing

Both experts and beginners can help to improve this book. If you would like to help, the about page should tell you everything you want to know to help. If you don't have a lot of time to work on this book, there are two simple things you can do. Firstly, you can make sure that {{English/Navigation}} is on every page. Type <noinclude>{{English/Navigation|Previous subpage title|Next subpage title}}</noinclude> on the bottom of the page to include the template. Secondly, you are encouraged to comment on each chapter on its talk page. Don't understand something? Pleaase say so so others don't experience the same problem! If you feel you understand the material on a page pretty well, write some exercises as practice. Be bold!

[edit] Templates

[edit] {{English/Navigation}}

This template should be added to the bottom of each English page by typing:

<noinclude>{{English/Navigation|Unit name|Previous subpage title|Next subpage title}}</noinclude>

The five unit names are: Words and usage, Sentences, Punctuation, Other key topics, Appendices and a blank space for all other pages.

Example: <noinclude>{{English/Navigation|Words|Nouns and pronouns|Adjectives and adverbs}}</noinclude> To see what this code yields, go to English/Verbs.

[edit] {{English/Exercise}}

Format: <noinclude>{{English/Exercise|Title|Exercise text|Answers}}</noinclude>

[edit] References

• Some parts of the book are taken from the public domain text "The Grammar of English Grammars" by Goold Brown, 1851.
• Some chapters are adapted from various Wikipedia articles, including Lexical category.
• Some chapters are adapted from the Rhetoric and Composition (PDF) Wikibook and its accompanying Writer's Handbook.
• Some chapters use Wiktionary definitions.
• The organization was adapted from the 1977 edition of Building English Skills Handbook by McDougal, Litell & Company.
• The Parts of Speech in HyperGrammar produced by the Writing Centre at the University of Ottawa.