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CHAPTER 1 PRESENT TIME
1-1 The Simple Present and the Present Progressive
1-2 Forms of the Simple Present and the Present Progressive
1-3 Frequency Adverbs
1-4 Final -s
1-5 Spelling of Final -s/-es
1-6 Non-Action Verbs
1-7 Present Verbs: Short Answers to Yes/No Questions
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CHAPTER 2 PAST TIME
2-1 Expressing Past Time: The Simple Past
2-2 Forms of the Simple Past: Regular Verbs
2-3 Forms of the Simple: Be
2-4 Regular Verbs: Pronunciation of -ed Endings
2-5 Spelling of -ing and -ed Forms
2-6 The Principle Parts of a Verb
2-7 Irregular Verbs: A Reference List
2-8 The Simple Past and the Past Progressive
2-9 Forms of the Past Progressive
2-10 Expressing Past Time: Using Time Clauses
2-11 Expressing Past Habit: Used to
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CHAPTER 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 Sureness about the Future
3-5 Be going to vs. Will
3-6 Expressing Future Time 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
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CHAPTER 4 THE PRESENT PERFECT AND THE PAST PERFECT
4-1 Past Participle
4-2 Forms of the Present Perfect
4-3 Meanings of the Present Perfect
4-4 Simple Past vs. Present Perfect
4-5 Using Since and For
4-6 Present Perfect Progressive
4-7 Present Perfect Progressive vs. Present Perfect
4-8 Using Already, Yet, Still, and Anymore
4-9 Past Perfect
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CHAPTER 5 ASKING QUESTIONS
5-1 Yes/No Questions and Short Answers
5-2 Yes/No Questions and Information Questions
5-3 Questions with Who, Who(m), and What
5-4 Using Could to Express Possibility
5-5 Spoken and Written Contractions with Question Words
5-6 Using What + a Form of Do
5-7 Using What kind of
5-8 Using Which
5-9 Using Whose
5-10 Using How
5-11 Using How Often
5-12 Using How Far
5-13 Length of Time: It + take and How long
5-14 More Questions with How
5-15 Using How about and What about
5-16 Tag Questions
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CHAPTER 6 NOUNS AND PRONOUNS
6-1 Pronunciation of Final - s/-es
6-2 Plural Forms And Nouns
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
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CHAPTER 7 MODAL AUXILIARIES
7-1 The Form of Modal Auxiliaries
7-2 Expressing Ability: Can and Could
7-3 Expressing Possibility: May and Might
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 Giving Instructions: Imperative Sentences
7-13 Making Suggestions: Let’s and Why don’t
7-14 Stating Preferences: Prefer, Like … Better, Would rather
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CHAPTER 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 and And
8-5 Using And + too, So, Either, Neither
8-6 Connecting Ideas with Because
8-7 Connecting Ideas with Even though / Although
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CHAPTER 9 COMPARISONS
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 Unclear Comparisons
9-8 Using More with Nouns
9-9 Repeating a Comparison
9-10 Using Double Comparatives
9-11 Using Superlatives
9-12 Using The same, Similar, Different, Like, and Alike
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CHAPTER 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 The Passive Forms of the Present and Past Progressive
10-6 The Passive Modal Auxiliaries
10-7 Using Past Participles as Adjectives (Stative Passive)
10-8 Participial Adjectives: -ed vs. -ing
10-9 Get + Adjective; Get + Past Participle
10-10 Using Be used / accustomed to and Get used / Get accustomed to
10-11 Used to vs. Be used to
10-12 Using Be supposed to
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CHAPTER 11 PASSIVE SENTENCES
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
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CHAPTER 12 ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
12-1 Adjective Clauses: Introduction
12-2 Using Who and Whom in Adjective Clauses
12-3 Using Who , Who(m) , and That in Adjective Clauses
12-4 Using Which and That in Adjective Clauses
12-5 Singular And Plural in Adjective Clauses
12-6 Using Prepositions in Adjective Clauses
12-7 Using Whose in Adjective Clauses
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CHAPTER 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 Too and Enough
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CHAPTER 14 NOUN CLAUSES
14-1 Noun Clauses: Introduction
14-2 Noun Clauses that Begin with a Question Word
14-3 Noun Clauses with Who, What, Whose + Be
14-4 Noun Clauses that Begin with If or Whether
14-5 Noun Clauses that Begin with That
14-6 Other Uses of That -Clauses
14-7 Substituting So for a That -Clause in Conversational Responses
14-8 Quoted Speech
14-9 Quoted Speech vs. Reported Speech
14-10 Verb Forms in Reported Speech
14-11 Common Reporting Verbs: Tell, Ask, Answer/Reply
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Appendix 1: Phrasal Verbs
Appendix 2: Preposition Combinations
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