Includes index.

"Through clear and comprehensive grammar explanations, extensive practice exercises, and lively communicative activities, Grammar Dimensions, Fourth Edition, provides students with the language skills they need to communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

A Word from Diane Larsen-Freeman

Welcome to Grammar Dimensions, Fourth Edition

Empirical and Experiential Support for the Grammar Dimensions Approach

Acknowledgments from the Series Director

A Special Thanks

Unit 1 - Simple Present Opening Task Focus 1 - Verbs in the Simple Present Tense (Use) Focus 2 - Simple Present Tense (Form) Focus 3 - Showing How Often Something Happens (Form/Meaning) Focus 4 - Talking About Facts (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 2 - Present Progressive and Simple Present Opening Task Focus 1 - Present Progressive: Actions in Progress (Use) Focus 2 - Present Progressive (Form) Focus 3 - Simple Present or Present Progressive? (Use) Focus 4 - Verbs Not Usually Used in the Progressive (Meaning) Focus 5 - States and Actions (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 3 - Talking About the Future Opening Task Focus 1 - Talking about the Future with Will and Be Going To (Meaning) Focus 2 - Will and Be Going To (Form) Focus 3 - Making Predictions: Will or Be Going To? (Use) Focus 4 - Future Plans and Intentions: Be Going To (Use) Focus 5 - Two More Uses of Will: Making Quick Decisions and Serious Promises (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 4 - Asking Questions Opening Task Focus 1 - Review of Yes/No Questions (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Review of Wh-Questions (Form/Meaning) Focus 3 - Wh-Questions That Focus on the Subject (Form/Meaning) Focus 4 - Wh-Questions with Rising Intonation: Checking Information (Use) Focus 5 - Choice Questions (Form/Meaning/Use) Focus 6 - Tag Questions (Form/Meaning) Focus 7 - Tag Question Intonation (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 5 - Modals of Probability and Possibility Opening Task Focus 1 - Using Could, May, Might, Must, Couldn't and Can't to Show How Certain You Are about the Present (Meaning) Focus 2 - Modals of Probability and Possibility (Form) Focus 3 - Modals of Probability and Possibility in the Past (Form) Focus 4 - Modals of Probability and Possibility with the Progressive (Form) Focus 5 - Future Probability and Possibility with Modals (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 6 - Past Progressive and Simple Past with Time Clauses Opening Task Focus 1 - Past Progressive and Simple Past (Use) Focus 2 - Past Progressive (Form) Focus 3 - When, While, and As Soon As (Meaning) Focus 4 - Time Clauses with When, While, As Soon As, Before, and After (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 7 - Similarities and Differences Opening Task Focus 1 - Expressing Difference: Comparatives and Superlatives (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Similarity and Difference: As... As and Not As... As (Meaning) Focus 3 - Using As... As and Not As... As (Form) Focus 4 - Making Tactful Comparisons with As... As and Not As... As (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 8 - Measure Words and Quantifiers Opening Task Focus 1 - Measure Words with Food (Meaning) Focus 2 - Measure Words with Count and Noncount Nouns (Form) Focus 3 - Common Quantifiers (Form/Meaning/Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 9 - Degree Complements Opening Task Focus 1 - Enough, Not Enough, Too (Meaning) Focus 2 - Enough, Not Enough, Too (Form) Focus 3 - Too Much, and Too Many; Too Little and Too Few (Form/Meaning) Focus 4 - Too versus Very (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 10 - Giving Advice and Expressing Opinions Opening Task Focus 1 - Giving Advice with Should. Ought To, Shouldn't (Meaning) Focus 2 - Using Need To and Imperatives to Give Advice (Use) Focus 3 - Should and Ought To versus Must (Use) Focus 4 - Should and Ought To versus Had Better (Use) Focus 5 - Should versus Could and Might (Use) Focus 6 - Should and Ought To versus Might, Could, Need To, Had Better, and Must (Use) Focus 7 - Expressing Opinions with Should, Ought To, and Should Not (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 11 - Modals of Necessity and Prohibition Opening Task Focus 1 - Modals of Necessity, Prohibition, and Permission (Meaning) Focus 2 - Modals and Phrasal Modals: Must, Have To, and Have Got To (Form) Focus 3 - Have To versus Have Got To (Use) Focus 4 - Using Cannot (Can't) and Must Not (Mustn't) to Show Something Is Prohibited or Not Permitted (Meaning/Use) Focus 5 - Must and Have To versus Must Not, Cannot and Do not Have To (Meaning/Use) Focus 6 - Talking about the Present, Past, and Future with Have To and Must (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 12 - Expressing Likes and Dislikes Opening Task Focus 1 - Expressing Similarity with too and Either (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Expressing Similarity with So and Neither (Form/Meaning) Focus 3 - Expressing Similarity with So (Use) Focus 4 - Showing Agreements with Short Phrases (Use) Focus 5 - Short Phrases or Hedges and Emphatic Do (Use) Focus 6 - Likes and Dislikes with Gerunds and Infinitives (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 13 - Present Perfect with Since and For Opening Task Focus 1 - Present Perfect: Connecting Past and Present (Use) Focus 2 - Forming the Present Perfect (Form) Focus 3 - For and Since (Meaning) Focus 4 - For and Since (Form) Focus 5 - Verbs Not Used with Present Perfect and For (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 14 - Present Perfect and Simple Past Opening Task Focus 1 - Present Perfect versus Simple Past (Use) Focus 2 - Ever and Never in Questions and Statements (Meaning) Focus 3 - Present Perfect in Questions (Use) Focus 4 - Already and Yet (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 15 - Present Perfect Progressive Opening Task Focus 1 - Present Perfect Progressive and Just: Recent Activities (Use) Focus 2 - Present Perfect Progressive (Form/Meaning) Focus 3 - Perfect Progressive: Unfinished Actions (Use) Focus 4 - Present Perfect Progressive for New Habits (Use) Focus 5 - Present Perfect versus Present Perfect Progressive (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 16 - Making Offers with Would You Like Opening Task Focus 1 - Offers with Would You Like (Form) Focus 2 - Would You Like...? or Do You Want...? (Use) Focus 3 - Accepting and Refusing Offers (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 17 - Requests and Permission Opening Task Focus 1 - Making Polite Requests (Use) Focus 2 - Politely Refusing Requests (Use) Focus 3 - Responding to Requests (Form) Focus 4 - Asking for Permission (Use) Focus 5 - Responding to Requests for Permission (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 18 - Used To with Still and Anymore Opening Task Focus 1 - Comparing Past and Present with Used To (Meaning) Focus 2 - Used To (Form) Focus 3 - Anymore (Use) Focus 4 - Still (Form/Meaning) Focus 5 - Adverbs of Frequency (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 19 - Past Perfect Opening Task Focus 1 - Past Perfect and Simple Past (Meaning) Focus 2 - Past Perfect (Meaning) Focus 3 - Before, After, By the Time, By (Meaning) Focus 4 - Past Perfect versus Present Perfect (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 20 - Articles Opening Task Focus 1 - Definite and Indefinite Articles: The, A/An, Ø (no article), and Some (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Using Articles: First and Second Mention (Use) Focus 3 - Indefinite Articles with Singular, Plural, and Noncount Nouns (Form) Focus 4 - Some Instead of Ø (No Article) (Meaning) Focus 5 - The with Singular, Plural, and Noncount Nouns (Form) Focus 6 - Making General Statements with Ø (No Article) (Meaning) Focus 7 - The with Unique/Easily Identified Nouns (Meaning) Focus 8 - Using The: Second Mention, Related Mention, and Certain Adjectives (Meaning/Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 21 - Articles with Names of Places Opening Task Focus 1 - Articles with Names of Places (Form) Focus 2 - Articles with Names of Institutions (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 22 - The Passive Opening Task Focus 1 - Active and Passive (Meaning) Focus 2 - Forming the Be Passive (Form) Focus 3 - The Passive (Use) Focus 4 - Including the Agent in Passive Sentences (Use) Focus 5 - Forming the Get-Passive (Form) Focus 6 - Be-Passive versus Get-Passive (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 23 - Phrasal Verbs Opening Task Focus 1 - Phrasal Verbs (Form) Focus 2 - When to Use Phrasal Verbs and How to Learn Them (Meaning/Use) Focus 3 - Phrasal Verbs That Take Objects (Form/Meaning) Focus 4 - Separating Verbs and Particles (Use) Focus 5 - Inseparable Phrasal Verbs (Form/Meaning) Focus 6 - When and When Not to Separate Phrasal Verbs (Use) Focus 7 - Phrasal Verbs That Do Not Take Objects (Form/Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 24 - Adjectives Clauses and Participles as Adjectives Opening Task Focus 1 - Adjective Clauses: Using Who and That to Describe People (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Which and That (Form/Use) Focus 3 - Participles as Adjectives (Form/Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 25 - Conditionals Opening Task Focus 1 - Hypothetical Conditionals (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Word Order in Conditionals (Form) Focus 3 - Past Hypothetical Conditionals (Form/Meaning) Focus 4 - Future Conditionals (Form/Meaning) Focus 5 - Future Conditionals or Hypothetical Conditions? (Meaning) Focus 6 - Factual Conditionals (Form/Meaning) Focus 7 - Would, Might, May, and Will in Conditionals (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Appendices

Answer Key (Puzzles and Problems Only)

Credits

Index