"Total language study program"--Cover.

Preface

1. The Sentence -- Noun phrases -- Verb phrases -- Modifiers

2. The verb phrase -- Auxiliary verbs

3. The verb -- Linking verbs -- Irregular verbs -- Tenses

4. The progressive tenses -- The present progressive -- The past progressive -- The future progressive

5. The perfect tenses -- The present perfect -- The past progressive -- The future perfect

6. Modal auxiliaries -- Shade of meaning -- Special auxiliaries

7. The progressive forms of modal auxiliaries

8. The auxiliary verb do -- Using do in questions -- Using do in negative sentences

10. The passive form of modal auxiliaries -- The future tense -- The past tense

11. The stative passive -- Adjectives and participles -- The progressive form vs. the stative passive -- Preposition

12. Past participles with get

13. Participial adjectives -- Present participles -- Past participles

14. Subject-verb agreement -- Third-person singular and plural -- The verb be -- Expressions of quantity -- Collective nouns -- Auxiliary verbs -- Complex sentences

15. Agreement with nouns -- Personal pronouns and collective nouns -- Indefinite pronouns -- Complex nouns

16. Using other -- Adjectives -- Pronouns

17. Gerunds -- Distinguishing gerunds from present participles -- The possessive

18. Conjunctions -- Coordinating conjunctions -- Conjunctions and their meaning -- Correlative conjunctions -- Subordinating conjunctions -- Adverbs that act as conjunctions

19. Prepositions -- Compound prepositions -- Noun and pronouns objects -- More than one prepositional phrase

20. Adjectives and adverbs -- Adjectives -- Adverbs

21. Filler subjects and impersonal subjects -- Filler subjects -- Impersonal subjects

22. Clauses -- Independent clauses -- Dependent clauses -- Relative clauses

23. Punctuation -- The period -- The comma -- The semicolon -- The colon -- The question mark -- The exclamation point -- The apostrophe -- Quotation marks -- The hyphen and the dash -- Parentheses and brackets

24. Capitalization, numbers, and italics -- Capitalization -- Numbers -- Italics

Appendix: Review exercises -- Answer key

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