I have a very nice 'Advanced Grammar in Use' by Martin Hewings, which has several pages of rules only about articles. But I find some of these rules so ambiguous sometimes, that I just have to retreat to my intuition. Translation of Negative Politeness Strategies from English into Persian: The Case of Novel Translation Article (PDF Available) March 2015 with 40 Reads DOI: 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.2p.143.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Silo Paulo, Delhi Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK www.cambridge.org Imormation on this titie: www.cambridge.org/9.14 © Cambridge University Press 2005 This publication is in copyright. Iv Reporting 32 Reporting people's words and thoughts 33 Reporting statements: that-clauses 34 Verb + wh-clause 35 Tense choice in reporting 36 Reporting offers, suggestions, orders, intentions, -etc. 37 Modal verbs in reporting 38 Reporting what people say using nouns and adjectives 39 Should in that-clauses; the present subjunctive Nouns 40 Agreement between subject and verb (1) 41 Agreement between subject and verb (2) 42 Agreement between subject and verb (3) 43 Compound nouns and noun phrases Articles, determiners and quantifiers 44 Nan and one 45 Nan, the and zero article (1) 46 Nan, the and zero article (2) 47 N an, the and zero article (3) 48 Some and any 49 N o, none (of) and not any 50 Much (of), many (of) a lot of, lots (of), etc. 51 All (of), whole, every, each 52 Few, linle, less, fewer Relative clauses and other types of clause 53 Relative pronouns 54 Other relative words: whose, when, whereby, etc.

55 Prepositions in relative clauses 56 Other ways of adding information to noun phrases (1): additional noun phrases, etc. 57 Other ways of adding information to noun phrases (2): prepositional phrases, etc. 58 Participle clauses with adverbial meaning (1) 59 Participle clauses with adverbial meaning (2) Pronouns, substitution and leaving aut words 60 Ref1exive pronouns: herself, himself, themselves, etc. 61 One and ones 62 So and not as substitutes far clauses, etc. 63 Do so; such 64 More on leaving aut words after auxiliary verbs 65 Leaving aut to-infinitives IF YOU ARE NOT SU RE WHICH UNITS YOU NEED TO STUOY, USE THE STUOY GUIDE ON PAGE 240. I was given considerable help by many people in writing the first edition of Advanced Grammar in Use, and their influence will stili be seeu iu this new editiou. Inparticular, I would like to thauk Jeanue McCarten at Cambridge University Press, aud my colleagues and studeuts iu the Euglish for Iuternatioual Studeuts Unit at the Uuiversity of Birmingham.

For this uew edition, I have been equally lucky in the support I have received from a number of knowledgeable, professional, and generous people. Alison Sharpe had guided the project to completion with constant encouragement and great diplomacy. Also at Cambridge University Press I would like to thank Kerry Maxwell, Xanthe Sturt Taylor, Jean Hudson, and Anna Teevan. Drafts of the refereuce material were also read by Sylvia Chalker, Frances Eaves- Walton, Carmina Gregori Signes, Carita Paradis, Richard Smith. Their comments were invaluable in helping me to revise and clarify this part of the book. Cyberlink powerdvd ultra download. Thanks to Gillian Martin, Roger Penwill and Lisa Smith for the illustrations and to Kamae Design for their work on the finished product. I would also like to thank Cambridge University Press for allowing me access to the Cambridge International Corpus.