Focus on Grammar, Intermediate Level

by Fuchs, Marjorie; Bonner, Margaret; Westheimer, Miriam

• ISBN13: 9780201346824
• ISBN10: 0201346826
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson ESL

Summary

Focus on Grammar, Second Edition, is a four-level grammar series written by practicing professionals. The series focuses on English grammar through lively listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. In order to learn the formal rules of a language, students need to practice new structures in a variety of contexts to help them internalize and master them. To This end, Focus On Grammar provides an abundance of both controlled and communicative exercises so students can bridge the gap between knowing grammatical structures and using them. The many communicative activities in each unit enable students to personalize what they have learned.

Table of Contents

INFORMATION.

I. PRESENT, PAST, AND FUTURE: REVIEW AND EXPANSION.

1. Present Progressive and Simple Present Tense.
2. Imperative.
3. Simple Past Tense.
4. Used To.
5. Past Progressive and Simple Past Tense.
6. Future.
7. Future Time Clauses.
8. Wh- Questions: Subject and Predicate.

II. PRONOUNS AND PHRASAL VERBS.

9. Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns.
10. Phrasal Verbs.

III. MODALS AND RELATED VERBS AND EXPRESSIONS.

11. Ability: Can, Could, Be Able To.
12. Permission: May, Could, Can, Do You Mind If…?
13. Requests: Will, Would, Could, Can, Would you Mind…?
14. Advice: Should, Ought to, Had Better.
15. Suggestions: Let's, Could, Why Don't…? Why Not…? How About…?

IV. PRESENT PERFECT.

16. Present Perfect: Since and For.
17. Present Perfect: Already and Yet.
18. Present Perfect: Indefinite Past.
19. Present Perfect and Simple Past Tense.
20. Present Perfect Progressive.
21. Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive.

V. ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS: REVIEW AND EXPANSION.

22. Adjectives and Adverbs.
23. Adjectives: Comparatives and Equatives.
24. Adjectives: Superlatives.
25. Adverbs: Equatives, Comparatives, Superlatives.

VI. GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES.

26. Gerunds: Subject and Object.
27. Gerunds after Prepositions.
28. Infinitives after Certain Verbs.
29. Infinitives of Purpose.
30. Infinitives with Too and Enough.
31. Gerunds and Infinitives.

VII. MORE MODALS AND RELATED VERBS AND EXPRESSIONS.

32. Preferences: Prefer, Would Prefer, Would Rather.
33. Necessity: Have (Got) To, Don't Have To, Must, Must Not, Can't.
34. Expectations: Be Supposed To.
35. Future Possibility: May, Might, Could.
36. Assumptions: Must, Have (Got) To, May, Might, Could, Can't.

VIII. Nouns and Articles.

37. Nouns and Quantifiers.
38. Articles: Indefinite and Definite.
Appendix 1. Irregular Verb
Appendix 2. Common Non-action (Stative) Verbs.
Appendix 3. Verbs and Expressions Commonly Used Reflectively.
Appendix 4. Some Common Transitive Separable Phrasal Verbs.
Appendix 5. Some Common Intransitive Phrasal Verbs.
Appendix 6. Common Participial Adjectives.
Appendix 7. Irregular Comparisons of Adjectives, Adverbs, and Quantifiers.
Appendix 8. Some Adjectives that Form the Comparative and Superlative in Two Ways.
Appendix 9. Common Verbs Following by the Gerund (Base Form of Verb + -ing).
Appendix 10. Common Verbs Followed by the Infinitive (To + Base Form of Verb).
Appendix 11. Common Verbs Followed by the Gerund or the Infinitive.
Appendix 12. Verbs Followed by Objects and the Infinitive.
Appendix 13. Common Adjective + Preposition Expressions.
Appendix 14. Common Verb + Preposition Combinations.
Appendix 15. Spelling Rules for the Present Progressive.
Appendix 16. Spelling Rules for the Simple Present Tense: Third-Person Singular (he, she, it).
Appendix 17. Spelling Rules for the Simple Past Tense of Regular Verbs.
Appendix 18. Spelling Rules for the Comparative (-er) and Superlative (-est) Forms of Adjectives.
Appendix 19. Spelling Rules for Adverbs, Ending in -ly.
Appendix 20. Contractions with Verb Forms.
Appendix 21. Pronunciation Table.
Appendix 22. Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Present Tense; Third-Person Singular (he, she, it).
Appendix 23. Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Past Tense of Regular Verbs.
Index.