English Grammar Usage

Abstract

The first chapters are probably the least read by most readers in general and scientists in particular, and in our opinion it is precisely in the first chapters that the most important information of a book is displayed. It is in its first chapters that the foundations of a book are laid, and many readers do not optimize the reading of a manual because they skip its fundamentals.

This is a vital chapter because unless you have a sound knowledge of English grammar you will be absolutely unable to speak English as is expected from a well-trained researcher. At your expected English level it is definitely not enough just to be understood; you must speak fluently and your command of the ­English language must allow you to communicate with your colleagues regardless of their nationality.

As you will see immediately, this grammar section is made up of scientific sentences, so at the same time that you revise, for instance, the passive voice, you will be reviewing how to say usual sentences in day-to-day English used in laboratories, such as “the scientist wears two pairs of latex gloves during a radioactive experiment in case one of them tears.”