Includes index.

1. Basic Grammar Terminology
1.1 Subjects, Verbs, Objects -- 1.2 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases -- 1.3 Adjectives -- 1.4 Adverbs -- 1.5 Personal Pronouns

2. The Verb Be
2.1 Forms of Be -- 2.2 Sentence Patterns with Be -- 2.3 Be - Negative Forms -- 2.4 Yes/No Questions -- 2.5 Information Questions with Who, What, When, and Where -- 2.6 Be - Past Tense -- 2.7 It + Be -- 2.8 There + Be -- 2.9 Yes/No Questions with There + Be -- 2.10 Information Questions with How Many

3. Verbs and Verb Tenses: Simple Present 3.1 Meaning and Forms -- 3.2 Simple Present: Negative Form -- 3.3 Frequency Adverbs -- 3.4 Yes/No Questions and Answers -- 3.5 Information Questions ad Answers

4. Verbs and Verb Tenses: Present Progressive 4.1 Present Progressive: Meaning and Forms -- 4.2 Spelling of -ing Verb Forms -- 4.3 Frequency Adverbs -- 3.4 Yes/No Questions -- 4.5 Nonprogressive Verbs

5. Verbs and Verb Tenses: Past Tenses 5.1 Simple Past - Meaning -- 5.2 Regular Verbs -- 5.3 Irregular Verbs - Form -- 5.4 Negative Forms -- 5.5 Yes/No Questions -- 5.6 Information Questions -- 5.7 Past Progressive - Meaning and Form

6. Verbs and Verb Tenses: Future Time 6.1 Simple Future / Be Going To -- 6.2 Be Going To - Meaning and Forms -- 6.3 Will - Meaning and Forms

7. Nouns 7.1 Singular and Plural 7.2 Irregular Plural Forms
7.3 Count and Noncount Nouns 7.4 A, An, The, and Some 7.5 Demonstratives: This, That, These and Those 7.6 Some and Any 7.7 Expression of Quantity 7.8 Information Questions with How Many and How Much 7.9 Subject-Verb Agreement
7.10 Possessive Nouns 7.11 Information Questions with Whose

8. Pronouns
8.1 Chart of Personal Pronouns
8.2 Subject and Object Pronouns 8.3 Indirect Objects 8.4 Possessive Adjectives 8.5 Indefinite Pronouns: Someone, Anyone, Something, Anything, No One, Nothing

9. Comparisons
9.1 Comparative 9.2 Comparative Adjectives: -er and More 9.3 Comparative Adverbs: -er and More 9.4 Comparaison with As...As, Not As...As, and Less 9.5 The Same, Similar, and Different
9.6 Like and Alike 9.7 Superlative 9.8 Using Superlative

10. Modal Auxiliaries
10.1 Modal Auxiliaries 10.2 Polite Requests: May I, Could I, Can I 10.3 Polite Requests: Could You, Would You, Can You 10.4 Using Imperative Sentences to Make Polite Requests 10.5 Making Suggestions: Let's 10.6 Advisability: Should 10.7 Expressing Necessity: Must, Have To 10.8 Present and Future Possibility: May and Might 10.9 Ability: Can and Be Able To 10.10 Past Ability: Could 10.11 If...: True in Present and Future

11. Trouble Spots 11.1 A/An
11.2 Advice/Advise 11.3 Affect/Effect
11.4 Dead/Death/Die
11.5 Fall/Feel
11.6 Hear/Listen
11.7 Its/It's
11.8 Live/Leave 11.9 Lose/Loose 11.10 Make/Do
11.11 Quit/Quiet 11.12 Say/Tell 11.13 Say/Tell 11.14 Take/Bring 11.15 There/Their/They're 11.16 To/Too 11.17 Too/Very 11.18 Who/What (Information Questions) 11.19 Who's/Whose 11.20 You're/Your 11.21 Prepositions of Time

Appendix 1: Irregular Past-Tense Verb Chart -- Appendix 2: Numbers -- Appendix 3: Time and Dates -- Appendix 4: Capital Letters and Punctuation

Index

"ITP Nelson Guide to Grammar Basics seeks to meet the needs of beginner-level students of English. Not all structures of the English language are covered, but the most necessary grammatical structures are introduced to help you cope with daily routines. This guide can be used as a stand-alone workbook/reference text or it can supplement other beginner-level reading and/or listening texts. Each unit is organized around a structure or a group of related structures. For the most part, grammatical concepts are presented in chart form followed by an explanation and examples. The examples are intended to be self-explanatory and are presented with a minimum of terminology. Each grammar concept is accompanied by two or more exercises that can be done either orally or in writing." (Introduction)