Excellence in English
for Secondary Students
by Peter Howard
Excellence in English for Secondary Students is a workbook of challenging and systematic exercises for improving language skills. This book can be used at school as a source of exercises or at home for additional work and revision.
Excellence in English for Secondary Students contains over 90 exercises to develop and improve skills in vocabulary and grammar usage. These include:
o troublesome words
o choosing the appropriate word
o shades of meaning
o words from other languages
o word power
o homonyms
o synonyms
o parts of speech
o sentence structure
o punctuation
o clarity of expression
o figures of speech
Answers to all exercises are provided in a separate removable section.
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Excellence in English Contents
Vocabulary
1 Household items
2 A word instead of a phrase 1
3 Animals 1
4 Troublesome words I
5 Weapons
6 Increase your word power 1
7 Find a more appropriate word 1
8 Words derived from Latin roots 1
9 Birds
10 Shades of meaning 1
11 Adjectives to use instead of very 1
12 A word instead of a phrase 2
13 Verbs we should use 1
14 Troublesome words 2
15 Words from other languages 1
16 Increase your word power 2
17 Words that sound the same 1
18 Words derived from Greek roots 1
19 Shades of meaning 2
20 Collections 1
21 A word instead of a phrase 3
22 Occupations 1
23 Troublesome words 3
24 Geographical terms 1
25 Increase your word power 3
26 Plants, shrubs and trees
27 Shades of meaning 3
28 Words derived from Latin roots 2
29 Sea creatures
30 Clothing and fabrics
31 A word instead of a phrase 4
32 Food we eat
33 Troublesome words 4
34 Games, sports and pastimes
35 Increase your word power 4
36 Find a more appropriate word 2
37 Words derived from Latin roots 3
38 Animals 2
39 Shades of meaning 4
40 Adjectives to use instead of very 2
41 A word instead of a phrase 5
42 Verbs we should use 2
43 Troublesome words 5
44 Words from other languages 2
45 Increase your word power 5
46 Words that sound the same 2
47 Words derived from Greek roots 2
48 Shades of meaning 5
49 Collections 2
50 A word instead of a phrase 6
51 Occupations 2
52 Troublesome words 6
53 Geographical terms 2
54 Increase your word power 6
55 Officials
56 Shades of meaning 6
57 Words derived from Latin roots 4
58 Legal terms
Grammar and usage
59 Nouns
60 Possessive case of nouns
61 Mistakes in using nouns
62 Adjectives
63 Prepositions
64 Mistakes in using prepositions
65 The correct form of irregular verbs
66 Verbs - tenses; shall and will; can and may
67 Forms of verbs
68 Agreement of verbs
69 Mistakes in using verbs
70 Adverbs
71 Adverb or adjective?
72 Conjunctions