This document provides an overview of the contents and units covered in a grammar textbook. It includes 14 units that cover topics such as tenses, modals, passive forms, conditionals, relative clauses, connectors, adjectives, nouns, articles, prepositions and more. There are also 7 review sections included at various points throughout the textbook to allow students to review material from multiple units. The appendices also provide additional information on spelling and punctuation rules.
This document provides an overview of the contents and units covered in a grammar textbook. It includes 14 units that cover topics such as tenses, modals, passive forms, conditionals, relative clauses, connectors, adjectives, nouns, articles, prepositions and more. There are also 7 review sections included at various points throughout the textbook to allow students to review material from multiple units. The appendices also provide additional information on spelling and punctuation rules.
This document provides an overview of the contents and units covered in a grammar textbook. It includes 14 units that cover topics such as tenses, modals, passive forms, conditionals, relative clauses, connectors, adjectives, nouns, articles, prepositions and more. There are also 7 review sections included at various points throughout the textbook to allow students to review material from multiple units. The appendices also provide additional information on spelling and punctuation rules.
This document provides an overview of the contents and units covered in a grammar textbook. It includes 14 units that cover topics such as tenses, modals, passive forms, conditionals, relative clauses, connectors, adjectives, nouns, articles, prepositions and more. There are also 7 review sections included at various points throughout the textbook to allow students to review material from multiple units. The appendices also provide additional information on spelling and punctuation rules.
Present Simple and Continuous; Present Perfect Simple and Continuous; future tenses; be going to; be to + infinitive; expressions with future meaning Unit 2 Past Tenses, used to / would 11 Past Simple and Continuous; Past Perfect Simple and Continuous; used to, would, future in the past REVIEW 1 18 Unit 3 Modals, Semi-modals, Modal Perfects 20 can, could, be able to, may, might, must, have to, need, should, ought to, will, would, shall, used to, had better, be supposed to Unit 4 Gerunds and Infinitives 27 Uses of gerunds and infinitives; full or bare infinitive; verbs of perception / sensory verbs REVIEW 2 34 Unit 5 Passive, Causative Forms 36 Passive forms; the causative and related forms; special structures with have / get Unit 6 Reported Speech, Subjunctive 42 Reported statements, imperatives and questions; reporting verbs; subjunctive REVIEW 3 50 Unit 7 Conditionals 52 Zero, first, second, third, mixed conditionals; temporal clauses; inversion in conditionals; conditional sentences without if Unit 8 wish, Unreal Past 58 wish; would rather / sooner, would prefer; it’s time; as if / though; imagine REVIEW 4 65 Unit 9 Word Order, Inversion and Emphasis 67 Word order in sentences and questions; question tags; inversion; other ways of adding emphasis: cleft sentences, fronting, auxiliary verbs, reflexives Unit 10 Relative Clauses and Participle Clauses 74 Relative pronouns and clauses; quantifying / adding to relative clauses; reduced clauses; participle clauses REVIEW 5 81 Unit 11 Connectors and Conjunctions 83 Adding information; showing cause / reason; expressing purpose; concession and contrast; sequencing ideas; making exceptions; giving examples; restating and explaining; introducing a new subject Unit 12 Adjectives, Adverbs, Comparison 89 Common ways of forming adjectives; order of adjectives; adverbs; adjectives and adverbs with similar forms; gradable and ungradable adjectives; comparison REVIEW 6 96 Unit 13 Countable and Uncountable Nouns, Articles, Quantifiers 98 Problems with plurals; uncountable nouns; articles: a, an, the, zero article; quantifiers: some, any, each, every, (a) little, (a) few, etc. Unit 14 Prepositions 105 Time and duration; position, movement and direction; dependent prepositions, prepositional phrases REVIEW 7 111 Appendices Grammar 113 Spelling 116 Punctuation 117