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 - the Verb Be (Affirmative Statements, Subject Pronouns) Opening Task Focus 1 - Be: Affirmative Statements (Form) Focus 2 - Subject Pronouns with Be (Form) Focus 3 - Contraction with Be (Form) Focus 4 - Using Be for Introductions (Use) Focus 5 - Greetings and Good-byes (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 2 - The Verb Be (Yes/No Questions, Be + Adjective, Negative Statements) Opening Task Focus 1 - Be: Yes/No Questions and Short Answers (Form) Focus 2 - Be + Adjective (Form/Meaning) Focus 3 - Be: Negative Statements and Contractions (Form/Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 3 - The Verb Be (Information Questions, It with Time and Weather, and Prepositions of Location) Opening Task Focus 1 - Information Questions with Be (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - How to Ask Questions about English (Use) Focus 3 - Using It to Talk about the Weather (Use) Focus 4 - Using It to Talk about Time (Use) Focus 5 - Prepositions of Location (Form/Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 4 - Nouns (Count and Noncount Nouns, Be + Adjective + Noun) Opening Task Focus 1 - Count Nouns and Noncount Nouns (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - The Articles A/An with Singular Count Nouns (Form) Focus 3 - Spelling of Regular Plural Count Nouns (Form) Focus 4 - Regular Plural Nouns: Pronunciation of Final -s and -es (Form) Focus 5 - Irregular Plural Nouns (Form) Focus 6 - Count and Noncount Nouns (Form) Focus 7 - Questions with How Much (Use) Focus 8 - Be + Adjective + Noun (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 5 - The Verb Have (Affirmative and Negative Statements, Questions and Short Answers, Some/Any) Opening Task Focus 1 - Have and Has: Affirmative Statements (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Have: Negative Statements and Contractions (Form) Focus 3 - Have: Yes/No Questions and Short Answers (Form) Focus 4 - Some/Any (Form) Focus 5 - Asking For Something Politely (Use) Focus 6 - Using Have to Describe People (Use) Focus 7 - Using Have to Talk about Illnesses (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 6 - This/That/These/Those and Possessives Opening Task Focus 1 - This, These, That, Those (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Asking What Things Are (Form/Use) Focus 3 - Possessive Nouns (Form) Focus 4 - Possessive Adjectives and Possessive Pronouns (Form) Focus 5 - Questions with Whose (Form/Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 7 - This Is/There Are, A/An versus The Opening Task Focus 1 - There + Be (Meaning/Use) Focus 2 - There Is/There Are (Form) Focus 3 - There Isn't/There Aren't/There's No/There Are No (Form) Focus 4 - Yes/No Questions with There Is/There Are (Form) Focus 5 - Choosing A/An or The (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 8 - Simple Present Tense (Affirmative and Negative Statements, Time Expressions: In/On/At, Like/Need/Want) Opening Task Focus 1 - Simple Present Tense: Affirmative Statements (Form) Focus 2 - Talking About Habits and Routines (Use) Focus 3 - Third Person Singular: Spelling and Pronunciation (Form) Focus 4 - Frequency and Time Expressions (Meaning) Focus 5 - Frequency and Time Expressions (Form) Focus 6 - Simple Present: Negative Statements (Form) Focus 7 - Useful Expressions with Common Verbs (Form) Focus 8 - Talking about Things that are Always True (Use) Focus 9 - Like, Want, Need (Form/Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 9 - Simple Present Tenses (Yes/No Questions, Adverbs of Frequency, Wh-Questions) Opening Task Focus 1 - Simple Present: Yes/No Questions (Form) Focus 2 - Adverbs of Frequency (Meaning) Focus 3 - Position of Adverbs of Frequency (Form/Use) Focus 4 - Simple Present: Wh-Questions (Form) Focus 5 - Wh-Questions with Who/Whom (Form/Meaning/Use) Focus 6 - Getting Information about English (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 10 - Imperatives and Preposition of Location Opening Task Focus 1 - Imperatives: Affirmative and Negative (Form) Focus 2 - Uses of Imperatives (Use) Focus 3 - Using Imperatives Appropriately (Use) Focus 4 - Prepositions of Direction: To, Away from, On (to), Off (of), In (to), Out of (Meaning) Focus 5 - Prepositions of Direction: Up, Down, Across, Along, Around, Over, Through, Past (Meaning) Focus 6 - Giving Directions (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 11 - Quantifiers Opening Task Focus 1 - Review of Count and Noncount Nouns (Form) Focus 2 - Quantifiers (Form/Meaning) Focus 3 - A Few/Few, A Little/Little (Meaning) Focus 4 - Information Questions with How Many and How Much (Form) Focus 5 - Measure Words (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 12 - Adverbs of Manner Opening Task Focus 1 - Adverbs of Manner (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Forms of Adverbs of Manner (Form) Focus 3 - Focusing on a Person or an Action (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 13 - Direct and Indirect Objects, Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns Opening Task Focus 1 - Direct Objects (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Direct Object Pronouns (Form/Use) Focus 3 - Indirect Objects (Form/Meaning) Focus 4 - Position of the Indirect Object (Form) Focus 5 - Position of New Information (Use) Focus 6 - Verbs that Require To with Indirect Objects (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 14 - Can, Know How To, Be Able To, Connectors: And/But/So/Or Opening Task Focus 1 - Can (Form) Focus 2 - Questions with Can (Form) Focus 3 - Asking for Help with English (Use) Focus 4 - Expressing Ability: Can, Know How To, and Be Able To (Meaning/Use) Focus 5 - Sentence Connectors: And/But/So/Or (Form/Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 15 - Present Progressive Tense Opening Task Focus 1 - Present Progressive: Affirmative Statements (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Spelling of Verbs Ending in -ing (Form) Focus 3 - Present Progressive: Negative Statements (Form) Focus 4 - Choosing Simple Present or Present Progressive (Use/Meaning) Focus 5 - Verbs Not Usually Used in the Progressive (Meaning) Focus 6 - Present Progressive: Yes/No Questions and Short Answers (Form) Focus 7 - Present Progressive: Wh-Questions (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 16 - Adjective Phrases (Another, The Other, Other(s), The Other(s), Intensifiers) Opening Task Focus 1 - Adjective Phrases (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Questions with Which (Form/Meaning) Focus 3 - Another, The Other, Other(s), The Other(s) (Form/Meaning) Focus 4 - Intensifiers (Form/Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 17 - Past Tense of Be Opening Task Focus 1 - Past Tense of Be: Affirmative Statements (Form) Focus 2 - Past tense of Be: Negative Statements (Form) Focus 3 - Yes/No Questions and Short Answers with Be in the Simple Past (Form) Focus 4 - Wh-Questions with Be (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 18 - Past Tense Opening Task Focus 1 - Forming and Spelling Regular Past Tense Verbs (Form) Focus 2 - Pronunciation of the -ed Ending (Form) Focus 3 - Irregular Past-Tense Verbs: Affirmative Statements (Form) Focus 4 - Time Expressions in the Past (Form/Meaning) Focus 5 - Past Tense: Negative Statements (Form) Focus 6 - Past Tense: Yes/No Questions and Short Answers (Form) Focus 7 - Past Tense: Wh-Questions (Form) Use Your English Activities

Unit 19 - Reflexive Pronouns, Reciprocal Pronoun: Each Other Opening Task Focus 1 - Reflexive Pronouns (Form) Focus 2 - Verbs Commonly Used with Reflexive Pronouns/By + Reflexive Pronoun (Use) Focus 3 - Reciprocal Pronoun: Each Other (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 20 - Future Time (Will and Be Going To, May and Might) Opening Task Focus 1 - Talking about Future Time (Meaning/Use) Focus 2 - Will (Form) Focus 3 - Be Going To (Form) Focus 4 - Time Expressions in the Future (Form/Meaning) Focus 5 - Talking About future Intentions or Plans (Use) Focus 6 - May and Might (Form/Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 21 - Phrasal Verbs Opening Task Focus 1 - Phrasal Verbs (Form) Focus 2 - Phrasal Verbs (Meaning/Use) Focus 3 - Separable Phrasal Verbs (Form) Focus 4 - Inseparable Phrasal Verbs (Form) Focus 5 - Phrasal Verbs without Objects (Form/Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 22 - Comparison with Adjectives Opening Task Focus 1 - Comparative Form of Adjectives (Form) Focus 2 - Questions with Comparative Adjectives (Form) Focus 3 - Expressing Similarities and Differences with As... As (Form/Meaning) Focus 4 - Making Polite Comparisons (Use) Use Your English Activities

Unit 23 - Comparisons with Adverbs Opening Task Focus 1 - Comparative Forms of Adverbs (Form/Use) Focus 2 - Expressing Similarities and Differences with As... As (Meaning/Use) Focus 3 - Questions with How (Form/Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 24 - Superlatives Opening Task Focus 1 - Superlatives (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Regular and Irregular Superlative Forms (Form) Focus 3 - One of the + Superlative + Plural Noun (Meaning) Use Your English Activities

Unit 25 - Factual Conditionals If Opening Task Focus 1 - Expressing Relationships that Never Change (Form/Meaning) Focus 2 - Expressing Relationships Based on Habit (Meaning) Focus 3 - Order of Clauses in Factual Conditionals (Form/Use) Use Your English Activities

Appendices

Credits

Index

Intended for upper beginner level ESL students.