Basic English Grammar, Second Edition (Full Student Textbook)

I have purchased this book and I assure you ,It really helped.I found it so easy to understand I couldn't think of something easier or better.

I used this book last year as a supplement in the Intermediate ESL class I was teaching. The book contains thorough explanations as to why we do and say certain things. For example, I especially liked the explanation of voiced and voiceless sounds when using -ed and -s. The exercises were very good. The book didn't quickly skip from one topic to the next, as many ESL books do. This book contained several exercises for each topic, so the students had a lot of practice before being shown something new. I loved this book.

Excelent book I need it for my sister son that is using it and he told me it easy to understand the book.

I have looked many grammar books for my children. This one is outstanding. Many parents do not pay much attention to formal grammar study. You don't have to if writing just so so is OK for you. If you want your child to have above average English, you want him to use a grammar book like this one. Betty Azar did an outstanding job compiling this clear, easy to use book. Its step-by-step introduction to English grammar and well-designed drills are perfect for elementary students. My children benefit a lot from it. Now, they know precisely how sentences should work, not just feel kind of right or wrong. Their good command of English grammar shows up in their impressive writing.

Good writing and grammar cannot be achieved in a short time. Looking for more practice, we also use Beestar ELA programs (a very good web site at http://www.beestar.org). Overall, this is a thoughtful fine book that delivers results. I highly recommend it.

This is a well-organized, easy-to-understand tool for teachers and students that will serve as a helpful supplement to broad-based classroom instruction. (This evaluation of Azar's work is from the perspective of teaching EFL.)

For learning and teaching language, linguists now largely agree that "research has failed to crown any single method as superior." At the same time, researchers assert that a multi-entry program is best, one that uses as many different and varied means as possible. Therefore, if we assume that each method and tool used inside or outside the classroom for learning language is just one small piece of a large collage of methods, we will find that nearly every kind of material and method has its place.

To shrug off Azar's 'Basic English Grammar' by claiming that "It doesn't work" is to misunderstand its place in the classroom. For teaching conversation skills, it ought not in any way to be the bread and butter of a teacher's instruction; rather, interaction and dialogue that involve the five senses and (where appropriate) the whole body ought to have foremost priority. A heavy emphasis should be first placed on raw listening comprehension alone, afterwards on speaking; after that reading and finally writing. Once basic language skills have been developed in this way, teachers can introduce more formal instruction in grammar, using various exercises to practice new concepts.

And that is the place for a volume such as Azar's. The exercises are varied (from cloze passages to fill-in-the-blanks to identifying errors to oral conversation to open-ended essays and more), and the book is thick with page after page of exercises that are extensive and repetitive - exactly as language learning should be.

Because most of the exercises are written, in my case I do save this material for use only once or twice a week, or as supplementary homework for students to practice what they have already covered and practiced orally in class. In that case Azar is an excellent reinforcement for what students already know, and need be little more.

Teachers of introductory English will need to be aware that the vocabulary in the exercises may be broader than their students are presently familiar with. Also, those teaching in non-English-speaking countries should be aware that some aspects of American culture found in the exercises may be difficult for their students to understand, and therefore the instructor will need to make adjustments accordingly.

Overall, this is a helpful and enjoyable tool for training in good grammar skills.