Real-life examples from over 5000 papers written by non-native English speakers Book includes a key with detailed explanations Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 30 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and academics from 35 countries to write research papers, prepare presentations, and communicate with editors, referees and fellow researchers.

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1. Nouns: plurals, countable versus uncountable, etc.- 2. Genitive: the possessive form of nouns.- 3. Indefinite article (a / an), definite article (the), and zero article (Ø).- 4. Quantifiers: some, any, little, few, a lot of, lots, much, many.- 5. Relative pronouns: that, which, who, whose, what.- 6. Present tenses.- 7. Past tenses.- 8. Future tenses.- 9. Conditional forms: zero, first, second, third, mixed.- 10. Passive versus active: impersonal versus personal forms.- 11. Infinitive, -ing form (gerund), suggest, recommend.- 12. Modal verbs.- 13. Phrasal verbs.- 14. Word order.- 15. Comparative and superlative forms.- 16. Numbers.- 17. Acronyms and abbreviations.- 18. Titles.- 19. Abstracts.- 20. Introduction and review of the literature.- 21. Materials and methods.- 22 Result.- 23. Discussion.- 24. Conclusions.- 25. Abstract contrasted with conclusions.- 26. Acknowledgements.- 27. Mini tests.- 28. Grammar in context.- 29. Using Large Language Models to improve, correct and generate your emails.- 30. Using Machine Translation.- About this book.- Index.