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Includes Listening Script, Index and Audio CD Tracking List.

"A classic developmental skills text for lower-intermediate and intermediate English language learners, Fundamentals of English Grammar is a comprehensive reference grammar as well as a stimulating and teachable classroom text.

While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the fourth edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities. Some of the new features are:
Innovative Warm-Up exercises that precede the grammar charts and introduce points to be taught
Structure-based listening exercises ranging from casual speech to more academic content
A wide selection of readings that highlight the target grammar structures
Greatly expanded speaking practice with extensive pair, group, and class work
Writing activities with models for students to follow
Corpus-informed syllabus that reflects the discourse patterns of spoken and written English
Audio CDs and Listening Script in the back of the Student Book." (Book Jacket)

CONTENTS

Ch. 1: PRESENT TIME
1-1 Simple present and present progressive
1-2 Forms of the simple present and the present progressive
1-3 Frequency adverbs
1-4 Singular/plural
1-5 Spelling of final –s/-es
1-6 Non-action verbs
1-7 Present verbs: short answers to yes/no questions

Ch. 2: PAST TIME
2-1 Expressing past time: the simple past
2-2 Spelling of –ing and –ed forms
2-3 The principal parts of a verb
2-4 Common irregular verbs: a reference list
2-5 Regular verbs: pronunciation of –ed endings
2-6 Simple past and past progressive
2-7 Expressing past time: using time clauses
2-8 Expressing past habit: used to

Ch. 3: FUTURE TIME
3-1 Expressing future time: be going to and will
3-2 Forms with be going to
3-3 Forms with will
3-4 Certainty about the future
3-5 Be going to vs. will
3-6 Expressing the future in time clauses and if-clauses
3-7 Using the present progressive to express future time
3-8 Using the simple present to express future time
3-9 Immediate future: using be about to
3-10 Parallel verbs

Ch. 4: PRESENT PERFECT AND PAST PERFECT
4-1 Past participle
4-2 Present perfect with since and for
4-3 Negative, question, and short-answer forms
4-4 Present perfect with unspecified time
4-5 Simple past vs. present perfect
4-6 Present perfect progressive
4-7 Present perfect progressive vs. present perfect
4-8 Past perfect

Ch. 5: ASKING QUESTIONS
5-1 Yes/no questions and short answers
5-2 Yes/no questions and information questions
5-3 Where, why, when, what time, how come, what…for
5-4 Questions with who, who(m), and what
5-5 Using what + a form of do
5-6 Using which and what kind of
5-7 Using whose
5-8 Using how
5-9 Using how often
5-10 Using how far
5-11 Length of time: it + take and how long
5-12 Spoken and written contractions with question words
5-13 More questions with how
5-14 Using how about and what about
5-15 Tag questions

Ch. 6: NOUNS AND PRONOUNS
6-1 Plural forms of nouns
6-2 Pronunciation of final –s/-es
6-3 Subjects, verbs, and objects
6-4 Objects of prepositions
6-5 Prepositions of time
6-6 Word order: place and time
6-7 Subject-verb agreement
6-8 Using adjectives to describe nouns
6-9 Using nouns as adjectives
6-10 Personal pronouns: subjects and objects
6-11 Possessive nouns
6-12 Possessive pronouns and adjectives
6-13 Reflexive pronouns
6-14 Singular forms of other: another vs. the other
6-15 Plural forms of other: other(s) vs. the other(s)
6-16 Summary of forms of other

Ch. 7: MODAL AUXILIARIES
7-1 The form of modal auxiliaries
7-2 Expressing ability: can and could
7-3 Expressing possibility: may, might, and maybe; Expressing permission: may and can
7-4 Using could to express possibility
7-5 Polite questions: may I, could I, can I
7-6 Polite questions: would you, could you, will you, can you
7-7 Expressing advice: should and ought to
7-8 Expressing advice: had better
7-9 Expressing necessity: have to, have got to, must
7-10 Expressing lack of necessity: do not have to; Expressing prohibition: must not
7-11 Making logical conclusions: must
7-12 Tag questions with modal auxiliaries
7-13 Giving instructions: imperative sentences
7-14 Making suggestions: let’s and why don’t
7-15 Stating preferences: prefer, like… better, would rather

Ch. 8: CONNECTING IDEAS
8-1 Connecting ideas with and
8-2 Connecting ideas with but and or
8-3 Connecting ideas with so
8-4 Using auxiliary verbs after but
8-5 Using and + too, so, either, neither
8-6 Connecting ideas with because
8-7 Connecting ideas with even though/although

Ch. 9: COMPARISON
9-1 Making comparisons with as… as
9-2 Comparative and superlative
9-3 Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs
9-4 Completing a comparative
9-5 Modifying comparatives
9-6 Comparisons with less… than and not as… as
9-7 Using more with nouns
9-8 Repeating a comparative
9-9 Using double comparatives
9-10 Using superlatives
9-11 Using the same, similar, different, like, alike

Ch. 10: THE PASSIVE 10-1 Active sentences and passive sentences
10-2 Form of the passive
10-3 Transitive and intransitive verbs
10-4 Using the by-phrase
10-5 Passive modal auxiliaries
10-6 Using past participles as adjectives (non-progressive passive)
10-7 Participial adjectives: -ed vs. –ing
10-8 Get + adjective; get + past participle
10-9 Using be used/accustomed to and get used/accustomed to
10-10 Used to vs. be used to
10-11 Using be supposed to

Ch. 11: COUNT/NONCOUNT NOUNS AND ARTICLES
11-1 A vs. an
11-2 Count and noncount nouns
11-3 Noncount nouns
11-4 More noncount nouns
11-5 using several, a lot of, many/much, and a few/a little
11-6 Nouns that can be count or noncount
11-7 Using units of measure with noncount nouns
11-8 Guidelines for article usage
11-9 Using the or Ø with names
11-10 Capitalization

Ch. 12: ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
12-1 Adjective clauses: introduction
12-2 Using who and that in adjective clauses to describe people
12-3 using object pronouns in adjective clauses to describe people
12-4 Using pronouns in adjective clauses to describe things
12-5 Singular and plural verbs in adjective clauses
12-6 Using prepositions in adjective clauses
12-7 Using whose in adjective clauses

Ch. 13: GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES
13-1 Verb + gerund
13-2 Go + -ing
13-3 Verb + infinitive
13-4 Verb + gerund or infinitive
13-5 Preposition + gerund
13-6 Using by and with to express how something is done
13-7 Using gerunds as subjects; using it + infinitive
13-8 It + infinitive: using for (someone)
13-9 Expressing purpose with in order to and for
13-10 Using infinitives with to and enough

Ch. 14: NOUN CLAUSES
14-1 Nouns clauses: introduction
14-2 Noun clauses that begin with a question word
14-3 Noun clauses that begin with if or whether
14-4 Nouns clauses that begin with that
14-5 Other uses of that-clauses
14-6 Substituting so for a that-clause in conversational responses
14-7 Quoted speech
14-8 Quoted speech vs. reported speech
14-9 Verb forms in reported speech
14-10 Common reporting verbs: tell, ask, answer/reply

Appendix: SUPPLEMENTARY GRAMMAR CHARTS

Unit A
A-1 The present perfect vs. the past perfect
A-2 The past progressive vs. the past perfect
A-3 Still vs. anymore A-4 Additional verbs followed by that-clauses
A-5 Additional expressions with be + that-clauses

Unit B
B-1 Phrasal verbs
B-2 Phrasal verbs: a reference list

Unit C
C-1 Preposition combinations: introduction
C-2 Preposition combinations: a reference list

Lower-intermediate to intermediate language learners.