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CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: Overview of Verb Tenses
1-1: The simple tenses
1-2: The progressive tenses
1-3: The perfect tenses
1-4: The perfect progressive tenses
1-5: Summary chart of verb tenses
1-6: Spelling of –ing and –ed forms

Chapter 2: Present and Past; Simple and Progressive
2-1: Simple present
2-2: Present progressive
2-3: Non-progressive verbs
2-4: Regular and irregular verbs
2-5: Irregular verb list
2-6: Regular verbs: pronunciation of –ed endings
2-7: Simple past
2-8: Past progressive
2-9: Using progressive verbs with always
2-10: Using expressions of place with progressive verbs

Chapter 3: Perfect and Perfect Progressive Tenses
3-1: Present perfect
3-2: Have and has in spoken English
3-3: Present perfect vs. simple past
3-4: Present perfect progressive
3-5: Past present
3-6: Had in spoken English
3-7: Past perfect progressive

Chapter 4: Future Time
4-1: Simple future: will and be going to
4-2: Will vs. be going to
4-3: Expressing the future in time clauses
4-4: Using the present progressive and the simple present to express future time
4-5: Future progressive
4-6: Future perfect and future perfect progressive

Chapter 5: Review of Verb Tenses

Chapter 6: Subject-Verb Agreement
6-1: Final –s/-es: use, pronunciation, and spelling
6-2: Basic subject-verb agreement
6-3: Subject-verb agreement: using expressions of quantity
6-4: Subject-verb agreement: using there + be
6-5: Subject-verb agreement: some irregularities

Chapter 7: Nouns
7-1: Regular and irregular plural nouns
7-2: Progressive nouns
7-3: Nouns as adjectives
7-4: Count and noncount nouns
7-5: Noncount nouns
7-6: Some common noncount nouns
7-7: Basic article usage
7-8: General guidelines for article usage
7-9: Expressions of quantity used with count and noncount nouns
7-10: Using a few and few; a little and little
7-11: Singular expressions of quantity: one, each, every
7-12: Using of in expressions of quantity

Chapter 8: Pronouns
8-1: Personal pronouns
8-2: Personal pronouns: agreement with generic nouns and indefinite pronouns
8-3: Personal pronouns: agreement with collective nouns
8-4: Reflexive pronouns
8-5: Using you, one and they as impersonal pronouns
8-6: Forms of other
8-7: Common expressions with other

Chapter 9: Modals, Part 1
9-1: Basic modal introduction
9-2: Polite requests with “I” as the subject
9-3: Polite requests with “you” as the subject
9-4: Polite requests with would you mind
9-5: Expressing necessity: must, have to, have got to
9-6: Lack of necessity and prohibition: have to and must in the negative
9-7: Advisability: should, ought to, had better
9-8: The past form of should
9-9: Obligation: be supposed to
9-10: Unfulfilled intentions: was/were going to
9-11: Making suggestions: let’s, why don’t, shall I/we
9-12: Making suggestions: could vs. should

Chapter 10: Modals, Part 2
10-1: Degrees of certainty: present time
10-2: Degrees of certainty: present time negative
10-3: Degrees of certainty: past time
10-4: Degrees of certainty: future time
10-5: Progressive forms of modals
10-6: Ability: can and could
10-7: Using would to express a repeated action in the past
10-8: Expressing preference: would rather
10-9: Combining modals with phrasal modals
10-10: Summary chart of modals and similar expressions

Chapter 11: The Passive
11-1: Active vs. passive
11-2: Tense forms of the passive
11-3: Using the passive
11-4: The passive form of modals and phrasal modals
11-5: Non-progressive passive
11-6: Common non-progressive passive verbs + prepositions
11-7: The passive with get
11-8: Participial adjective

Chapter 12: Noun Clauses
12-1: Introduction
12-2: Noun clauses beginning with a question word
12-3: Noun clauses beginning with whether or if
12-4: Question words followed by infinitives
12-5: Noun clauses beginning with that
12-6: Quoted speech
12-7: Reported speech: verb forms in noun clauses
12-8: Using –ever words

Chapter 13: Adjective Clauses
13-1: Adjective clause pronouns used as the subject
13-2: Adjective clause pronouns used as the object of a verb
13-3: Adjective clause pronouns used as the object of a preposition
13-4: Using whose
13-5: Using where in adjective clauses
13-6: Using when in adjective clauses
13-7: Using adjective clauses to modify pronouns
13-8: Punctuating adjective clauses
13-9: Using expressions of quantity in adjective clauses
13-10: Using which to modify a whole sentence
13-11: Reducing adjective clauses to adjective phrases

Chapter 14: Gerunds and Infinitives, Part 1
14-1: Gerunds: introduction
14-2: Using gerunds as the object of preposition
14-3: Common verbs followed by gerunds
14-4: Go + gerunds
14-5: Special expressions followed by –ing
14-6: Common verbs followed by infinitives
14-7: Common verbs followed by either infinitives or gerunds
14-8: It + infinitives; gerunds and infinitives as subjects
14-9: Reference list of verbs followed by gerunds
14-10: Reference list of verbs followed by infinitives

Chapter 15: Gerunds and Infinitives, Part 2
15-1: Infinitives of purpose: in order to
15-2: Adjectives followed by infinitives
15-3: Using infinitives with too and enough
15-4: Passive infinitives and gerunds
15-5: Using gerunds or passive infinitives following need
15-6: Using verbs of perception
15-7: Using the simple forms after let and help
15-8: Using causative verbs: make, have, get

Chapter 16: Coordinating Conjunctions
16-1: Parallel structure
16-2: Parallel structure: using commas
16-3: Paired conjunctions: both … and, not only … but also: either … or, neither … nor
16-4: Separating independent clauses with periods; connecting with and and but

Chapter 17: Adverb Clauses
17-1: Introduction
17-2: Using adverb clauses to show time relationships
17-3: Using adverb clauses to show cause and effect
17-4: Expressing contract (unexpected results): using even though
17-5: Showing direct contrast: while
17-6: Expressing conditions in adverb clauses: if-clause
17-7: Shortened if-clause
17-8: Adverb clauses of condition: using whether or not and ever if
17-9: Adverb clauses of condition: using in case
17-10: Adverb clauses of condition: using unless
17-11: Adverb clauses of condition: using only if

Chapter 18: Reduction of Adverb Clauses to Modifying Adverbial Phrases
18-1: Introduction
18-2: Changing time clauses to modifying adverbial phrases
18-3: Expressing the idea of “during the same time” in modifying adverbial phrases
18-4: Expressing causes and effect in modifying adverbial phrases
18-5: Using upon + -ing in modifying adverbial phrases

Chapter 19: Connection that Express Cause and Effect, Contrast, and Condition
19-1: Using because of and due to
19-2: Cause and effect: using therefore, consequently, and so
19-3: Summary of patterns and punctuation
19-4: Other ways of expressing cause and effect: such … that and so … that
19-5: Expressing purpose: using so that
19-6: Showing contrast (unexpected results)
19-7: Showing direct contrast
19-8: Expressing conditions: using otherwise and or (else)
19-9: Summary of connectives: cause and effect, contrast, and condition

Chapter 20: Conditional Sentences and Wishes
20-1: Overview of basic verb forms used in conditional sentences
20-2: True in the present or future
20-3: Untrue (contrary to fact) in the present or future
20-4: Untrue (contrary to fact) in the fast
20-5: Using progressive verb forms in conditional sentences
20-6: Using “mixed time” in conditional sentences
20-7: Omitting if
20-8: Implied conditions
20-9: Verb forms following wish
20-10: Using would to makes wishes about the future