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I have just started preparing for english grammar with the help of a book written by Wren & Martin: High School English Grammar and Composition.

It is quite helpful and much elaborative, however vast. The strategy, I am employing in application is, learning such subjects that i am unaware of.

Suggestions are needed from SENIORS regarding "hot topics to learn". What are the major things to learn in English Grammar.

P.S. if you also find any grammatical mistake above, do point out.

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I'm sure by "SENIOR" you don't mean those who are senior members of this forum but those who have done graduation in the field of linguistics and language teaching.

You see language changes all the time, from "thy" we use "you" if you study the work of David Crystal you understand what I mean. Wren and Martin is outdated. It's helpful though. You can learn how to structure sentence by reading articles and books written by native speakers of English. BBC could be one of the best and authentic sources for learning English language.

As for the major areas, they are already stated in syllabus, you may use, for example, Longman or Oxford for Idioms or literary terms or you may choose Webster's or Collin's dictionary for heavy terms. I'd recommend to use internet and these books are easily available in pdf format. You don't have to invest money on them nowadays.

That's my two cents, someone here is free and open to disagree and offer alternate solutions. Best wishes
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I'm sure by "SENIOR" you don't mean those who are senior members of this forum but those who have done graduation in the field of linguistics and language teaching.

You see language changes all the time, from "thy" we use "you" if you study the work of David Crystal you understand what I mean. Wren and Martin is outdated. It's helpful though. You can learn how to structure sentence by reading articles and books written by native speakers of English. BBC could be one of the best and authentic sources for learning English language.

As for the major areas, they are already stated in syllabus, you may use, for example, Longman or Oxford for Idioms or literary terms or you may choose Webster's or Collin's dictionary for heavy terms. I'd recommend to use internet and these books are easily available in pdf format. You don't have to invest money on them nowadays.

That's my two cents, someone here is free and open to disagree and offer alternate solutions. Best wishes
Thy suggestions and tips are valuable for me. I have got the book- mentioned above- and another: exploring the world of english.

These days, I am working on Parts of Speech. Besides, which other topics are important to learn. Further, suggest me book/ notes for "direct indirect speech".

Once again, thank you for taking time to read my post. Actually, i want to combat Recruitment Exams.
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This is the direct link to resources for anyone who wants to have deeper understanding of English Language: http://www.langcen.cam.ac.uk/lc/reso...e/english.html and improve any area of language.

And, by the way, I wanted to say The Chamber's dictionary, Webster's is best too but I've The Chamber's, it has a lot more information regarding words and their etymology. Kinda thesaurus. But it rarely have sentence structures. Longman is easy and very user friendly, I observe.

Also do get past papers, I took recruitment exam last month and I had at least 10-15 yrs past papers only . It gave me accurate idea about which areas to focus on and also which sources to use. Take, say, idioms, I didn't start preparing for idioms until I found one book that had all the idioms that had ever appeared in any of the paper of that exam. And, Allah is the best helper.

You may also use https://www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/ for language learning. There are lots of other online classes for free, which you may find helpful.
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@Here2Learn: The links you've shared do not have free resources.
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@QuantumX, No they do have free resources.

oxfordenglish site has FREE classes, here's the direct link: https://www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/...nglish-lessons

As for http://www.langcen.cam.ac.uk/lc/reso...e/english.html it does have resources that are not available at that site specifically but they are over the internet. For example:http://www.iausdj.ac.ir/ostad/DocLib...%20Writing.pdf mentioned in Writing Skills section of http://www.langcen.cam.ac.uk/lc/reso...e/english.html
You got to put your own efforts to get to these resources. Still if there's a book that is not accessible to you over the internet, you can contact any of facebook groups that send Free Literature. Or you may go to nearby library or ask your university to send you the ematerial.
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@Here2Learn: Thanks for replying and sharing the eBook. I found Cambridge's publications to be of great help as compared to Oxford's. I had been looking for an idioms books and found a few ones but couldn't decide which was the best one to study idioms from. As you were referring a book in your previous comment that covers all the idioms that were asked in the past papers. Would you like to share the title of that book?
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My pleasure! Sure. Here it is:

http://www.e4thai.com/e4e/images/pdf...f%20Idioms.pdf

It's Oxford Dictionary of Idioms 2nd ed. (2004). I don't know if there is any latest edition or not. That's what I came across and found when I was preparing for English lecturer post.


Also, here's literary terms book that I found: http://www.ilfracombeacademy.org.uk/...Vocabulary.pdf this had all the terms that had ever appeared in the literary terms question of that exam.
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Thank you so much. I'm indebted to you for your help.
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