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"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 - Overview of the English Verb System (Time and Tense) Opening Task Focus 1 Overview of the English Verb System (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Keeping Tenses in the Same Time Frame (Meaning/Use) Focus 3 - Changing the Time Frame Within a Passage (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 2 - Overview of the English Verb System (Aspect) Opening Task Focus 1 - Overview of Aspect (Meaning) Focus 2 - Simple Tenses (Use) Focus 3 - Progressive Aspect (Use) Focus 4 - Perfect Aspect (Use) Focus 5 - Perfect Progressive Aspect (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 3 - Adverbial Phrases and Clauses Opening Task Focus 1 - Identifying Phrases and Clauses (Form) Focus 2 - Basic Adverbial Position (Form) Focus 3 - Position and Order of Adverbial Phrases (Form) Focus 4 - Putting Adverbial Phrases at the Beginning of a Sentence (Form/Use) Focus 5 - Position of Adverbial Clauses (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 4 - Passive Verbs Opening Task Focus 1 - Review of Passive Verb Forms (Form) Focus 2 - Passive Meaning: Agent Versus Receiver (Meaning) Focus 3 - When to Include the Agent (Use) Focus 4 - The Get Passive (Form/Use) Focus 5 - Special Cases: Verbs with No Passive Forms and Other Verbs with No Active Forms (Form/Meaning) Focus 6 - Choosing Passive Versus Active (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 5 - One-Word and Phrasal Modals Opening Task Focus 1 - Review of Modal Forms (Form) Focus 2 - Social Uses of One-Word and Phrasal Modals (Use) Focus 3 - Common One-Word and Phrasal Modal Meanings (Meaning) Focus 4 - Choosing One-Word Versus Phrasal Modals (Use) Focus 5 - Formal and Informal Use of Modals (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 6 - Infinitives Opening Task Focus 1 - Overview of Infinitives and Gerunds (Form) Focus 2 - Infinitives (Form/Meaning) Focus 3 - Noun or Pronoun Plus Infinitive (Form/Meaning) Focus 4 - Verbs Followed by Infinitives: Pattern 1 (Form) Focus 5 - Verbs Followed by Infinitives: Pattern 2 (Form) Focus 6 - Verbs Followed by Infinitives: Pattern 4 (Form) Focus 7 - Using Infinitives with Passive Verbs (Form) Focus 8 - Infinitives as Subjects of a Sentence (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 7 - Gerunds Opening Task Focus 1 - Gerunds (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Noun or Pronoun Plus Gerund (Form) Focus 3 - Verbs Followed by Gerunds: Pattern 1 (Form) Focus 4 - Verbs Followed by Gerunds: Pattern 2 (Form) Focus 5 - Verbs Followed by Gerunds: Pattern 3 (Form) Focus 6 - Gerunds in Other Positions in a Sentence (Form) Focus 7 - Choosing Infinitives Versus Gerunds (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 8 - Intensifiers and Degree Complements Opening Task Focus 1 - Describing How Much or To What Degree (Meaning) Focus 2 - Intensifiers (Form/Meaning/Use) Focus 3 - Too Versus Very (Meaning) Focus 4 - Using Intensifiers with Too (Meaning) Focus 5 - Using Intensifiers with Not (Use) Focus 6 - Degree Complements with Too and Enough (Form) Focus 7 - Implied Meanings of Too and Not Enough (Meaning) Focus 8 - Degree Complements with So and Such (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 9 - Modifying Noun Phrases (Adjectives and Participles) Opening Task Focus 1 - Overview of Word Order in Noun Phrases (Form) Focus 2 - Order of Descriptive Adjectives (Form) Focus 3 - Participle Modifiers (Form) Focus 4 - Meanings of Present and Past Participles (Meaning) Focus 5 - Adding Information to Participles (Form/Meaning) Focus 6 - Modifiers That Follow Noun Phrases (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 10 - Comparatives Opening Task Focus 1 - Comparisons of Degree: Adjectives and Adverbs (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Comparisons of Amount: Noun Phrases (Form/Meaning) Focus 3 - Comparisons of Similarity and Difference: Noun Phrases (Form/Meaning) Focus 4 - Comparisons of Similarity and Difference: Verb Phrases (Form/Meaning) Focus 5 - Informal Usage of Comparisons (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 11 - Connectors Opening Task Focus 1 - Overview of Connectors (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Using Coordinating Conjunctions to Connect Parallel Forms (Form) Focus 3 - Problems Using Coordinating Conjunctions (Form/Use) Focus 4 - Problems Using Sentence Connectors (Form) Focus 5 - Problems Using Subordinating Conjunctions (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 12 - Relative Clauses Opening Task Focus 1 - Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses (Meaning) Focus 2 - Forming Restrictive Relative Clauses (Form) Focus 3 - Relative Pronouns (Meaning/Use) Focus 4 - Deleting Relative Pronouns (Form) Focus 5 - Whose in Relative Clauses (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 13 - Present Time Frame Opening Task Focus 1 - Using Simple Present Versus Present Progressive (Use) Focus 2 - Nondynamic (Stative) Verbs (Meaning) Focus 3 - Verbs with Both Nondynamic and Action Meanings (Meaning) Focus 4 - Uses of the Present Time (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 14 - Present Perfect (Describing Past Events in Relation to the Present) Opening Task Focus 1 - Choosing Past Time Frame or Present Time Frame (Use) Focus 2 - Relationship to the Present: Still True (Present Perfect Tense) Versus No Longer True (Past Tense) (Use) Focus 3 - Relationship to the Present: Until Now (Use) Focus 4 - Relationship to the Present: Present Result (Present Perfect Tense) (Use) Focus 5 - Present Perfect Progressive Tense (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 15 - Future Time (Using Present Tenses, Using Will Versus Be Going To Versus Shall; Adverbial Clauses in Future) Opening Task Focus 1 - Recognizing Future Time (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Present Tenses for Future Planned Events (Use) Focus 3 - Will Versus Be Going To (Use) Focus 4 - Using Shall (Use) Focus 5 - Other Modals in Future Time (Meaning) Focus 6 - Future-Time Adverbial Clauses (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 16 - Modals of Prediction and Inference Opening Task Focus 1 - Modals of Prediction (Meaning/Use) Focus 2 - Modals of Inference (Meaning) Focus 3 - Modals of Prediction and Inference in Past Time (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 17 - Hypothetical Statements Opening Task Focus 1 - Overview of Hypothetical Meaning (Meaning) Focus 2 - Actual Versus Hypothetical Conditionals (Meaning) Focus 3 - Hypothetical Conditionals in Present and Future Time Frames (Form) Focus 4 - Hypothetical Conditionals in Past Time Frame (Form) Focus 5 - Mixing Hypothetical and Actual Statements (Use) Focus 6 - Using Hypotheticals for Unlikely Possibility and for Sensitive Topics (Use) Focus 7 - Using Hypotheticals to Imply that the Opposite is True (Use) Focus 8 - Using Hypotheticals with Wish and Verbs of Imagination (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 18 - Sensory Verbs, Causative Verbs, and Verbs that Take Subjunctive Opening Task Focus 1 - Overview (Form) Focus 2 - Sensory Verbs (Meaning) Focus 3 - Causative Verbs (Form/Meaning) Focus 4 - Passive Causative Verbs (Form/Use) Focus 5 - Verbs of Urging Followed by Subjunctive that Clauses (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 19 - Articles in Discourse Opening Task Focus 1 - Overview of Determiners (Form) Focus 2 - Overview of Articles (Form/Meaning) Focus 3 - Using Articles in Generic and Particular Statements (Use) Focus 4 - Specific Versus Nonspecific Nouns (Meaning) Focus 5 - Using Articles in Discourse (Use) Focus 6 - Repeating the Indefinite Article (Use) Focus 7 - Unique Nouns (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 20 - Reference Forms in Discourse Opening Task Focus 1 - Overview of Demonstratives (Form/Meaning/Use) Focus 2 - Demonstratives for Reference (Use) Focus 3 - This/That Versus It (Meaning) Focus 4 - That/Those with Forward-Pointing Reference (Use) Focus 5 - Special Uses of Demonstratives (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 21 - Possessives Opening Task Focus 1 - Possessive Forms (Form) Focus 2 - Possessive Nouns Versus Possessive Phrases (Use) Focus 3 - Meanings of Possessive Forms (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 22 - Quantifiers, Collective Nouns, and Collective Adjectives Opening Task Focus 1 - Overview of Quantifiers in English (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Affirmative and Negative Quantifiers (Meaning) Focus 3 - Singular and Plural Quantifiers (Form) Focus 4 - Using Quantifiers with Of (Use) Focus 5 - Quantifiers: Special Cases (Use) Focus 6 - Collective Nouns (Form) Focus 7 - Collective Adjectives (Form/Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 23 - Past Time Frame (Using Adverbs and Aspect to Indicate Time Relationships) Opening Task Focus 1 - Overview of Time Relationships in Past Time Frame (Use) Focus 2 - When, While, and Progressive Aspect in Past Time (Use) Focus 3 - Other Uses of Progressive Aspect (Use) Focus 4 - Using Perfect Aspect in Past Time Frame (Use) Focus 5 - Perfect Progressive Aspect in Past Time Frame (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 24 - Modals in Past Time Opening Task Focus 1 - Overview of Modals in Past Time Frame (Form/Meaning/Use) Focus 2 - Expressing Necessity, Permission, and Advisability in the Past Time (Form/Use) Focus 3 - Ability in Past Time: Could Versus Was Able To (Meaning) Focus 4 - Habitual Actions in Past Time: Would Versus Used To (Use) Focus 5 - Future in Past Time Frame (Meaning/Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 25 - Indirect Quotation Opening Task Focus 1 - Overview of Direct Versus Indirect Quotation (Form/Meaning/Use) Focus 2 - Indirect Quotation and Change of Time Frame (Meaning/Use) Focus 3 - Other Reference Changes in Indirect Quotation (Form/Meaning) Focus 4 - When No Tense Changes Are Required in Indirect Quotation (Form) Focus 5 - Reporting Verbs and Indirect Quotation (Form) Focus 6 - Word Order and Indirect Quotation (Form) Focus 7 - Commands and Requests in Indirect Quotation (Use) Use Your English Activities

Appendices

Answer Key (Puzzles and Problems Only)

Credits

Index