It’s not immaterial that much of her grammar wisdom came from her now-deceased father— a stickler of the first order whose parental nurturing included lessons against the evils of split infinitives right along with loving injunctions like “eat your vegetables” and “look both ways before crossing the street.” In effect, I was telling her: My Garner’s and Oxford and Chicago and Strunk and White and AP can beat up your daddy (your dead daddy). | Elaine Walker Steve Elsworth New Grammar Practice for Pre-Intermediate Students with key 1 ế 1 New Elaine Walker ỵ El7rthl G ra m m a r Practice í-ỉĩ for Pre-Intermediate Students with key Ss H J ill ị Longman Pearson Education Limited Edinburgh Gate Harlow Essex CM20 2JE England And Associated Companies throughout the World. Pearson Education Limited 2000 The right of Elaine Walker and Steve Elsworth to be identified as authors of this Work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. AH rights reserved no part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Publishers. ISBN 0 582 41710 4 Fifth impression 2004 Set in Slimbach Printed in Malaysia LSP Illustrations by David Mostyn Project Managed by Lewis Lansford Additional material written by David .