Any books on Advanced Patterns/ Sentences??

[blackdie]

Are there any excellent grammar books on more ADVANCED grammar sentences/ patterns like Inversion, Cleft sentences,etc?

Please provide me with the name as well as the author(s) of the book. Many thanks!

[Tdol]

Which grammar(s) do you have now?

[blackdie]

Books on advanced sentence patterns.

For example:

01. It was on a hot summer day that I left school. (cleft sentences)

02. Only after the war ended did they meet again.

03. He is something of an author.

04. He has an angel of a wife. (A/ AN/ THE + noun + OF + A/ AN + person)

05. I love him all the better for his criticism.

,etc.

[blackdie]

I have some grammar books specially designed for high school students.
They're not really authentic.

[Tdol]

You could try the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English or A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech & Svartvik), both of which are very substantial works.

[blackdie]

Many thanks to your suggestion:)