Basic English Grammar is a classic developmental skills text for beginning students of English as a second or foreign language. It uses a grammar-based approach integrated with communicative methodologies to prmote the development of all language skills.
While keeping the same basic approach and materials as in earlier edtions, the fourth edition continues to build on the foundation of understanding form and meaning by engaging students in meaningful communication about real actions, real things, and their own lives in classroom context.
Several of the new features are:
- Information in the grammar charts highlighting differences between spoken and written English
- Step-by-step writing activities with models for students to follow
- Innovative warm-up exercises that precede the grammar charts and introduce points to be taught
- Newly created exercises to give students more incremental grammar practice
- Structure-based listening exercises that introduce students to relaxed, reduced speech
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 USING BE
1-1 Singular pronouns + be
1-2 Plural pronouns + be
1-3 Singular nouns + b
1-4 Plural nouns + be
1-5 Contractions with be
1-6 Negative with be
1-7 Be + adjectiv
1-8 Be + a place
1-9 Summary: basic sentence patterns with be
Chapter 2 USING BE AND HAVE
2-1 Yes/no questions with be
2-2 Short answers to yes/no questions
2-3 Questions with be: using where
2-4 Using have and has
2-5 Using my, your, her, his, our, their
2-6 Using this and that
2-7 Using these and those
2-8 Asking questions with what and who + be
Chapter 3 USING THE SIMPLE PRESENT
3-1 Form and basic meaning of the simple present tense
3-2 Frequency adverbs
3-3 Position of frequency adverbs
3-4 Spelling and pronunciation of final -es
3-5 Adding final -s/-es to words that end in -y
3-6 Irregular singular verbs: has, does, goes
3-7 Like to, want to, need to
3-8 Simple present tense: negative
3-9 Simple present tense: yes/no questions
3-10 Simple present tense: asking information questions with where and what
3-11 Simple present tense: asking information questions with when and what time
Chapter 4 USING THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
4-1 Be + -ing: the present progressive
4-2 Spelling of -ing
4-3 Present progressive: negatives
4-4 Present progressive: questions
4-5 Simple present tense vs. the present progressive
4-6 Non-action verbs not used in the present progressive
4-7 See, look at, watch, hear, and listen to
4-8 Think about and think that
Chapter 5 TALKING ABOUT THE PRESENT
5-1 Using it to talk about time
5-2 Prepositions of time
5-3 Using it and what to talk about the weather
5-4 There + be
5-5 There + be: yes/no questions
5-6 There + be: asking questions with how many
5-7 Prepositions of place
5-8 More prepositions of place: a list
5-9 Would like
5-10 Would like vs. like
Chapter 6 NOUNS AND PRONOUNS
6-1 Nouns: subjects and objects
6-2 Nouns as objects of prepositions
6-3 Adjectives with nouns
6-4 Subject pronouns and object pronouns
6-5 Nouns: singular and plural forms
6-6 Nouns: irregular plural forms
6-7 Possessive pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs
6-8 Possessive nouns
6-9 Questions with whose
6-10 Possessive: irregular plural nouns
Chapter 7 COUNT AND NONCOUNT NOUNS
7-1 Nouns: count and noncount
7-2 Using a vs. an
7-3 Using a/an vs. some
7-4 Measurements with noncount nouns
7-5 Using many, much, a few, a little
7-6 Using the
7-7 Using Ø (no article) to make generalizations
7-8 Using some and any
Chapter 8 EXPRESSING PAST TIME, PART 1
8-1 Using be: past time
8-2 Simple past tense of be: negative
8-3 Past of be: questions
8-4 Simple past tense: using –ed
8-5 Past time words: yesterday, last, and ago
8-6 Simple past tense: irregular verbs (Group 1)
8-7 Simple past tense: negative
8-8 Simple past tense: yes/no questions
8-9 Simple past tense: irregular verbs (Group 2)
8-10 Simple past tense: irregular verbs (Group 3)
8-11 Simple past tense: irregular verbs (Group 4)
Chapter 9 EXPRESSING PAST TIME, PART 2
9-1 Simple past tense: using where, why, when, and what time
9-2 Questions with what
9-3 Questions with who and whom
9-4 Simple past tense: irregular verbs (Group 5)
9-5 Simple past tense: irregular verbs (Group 6)
9-6 Simple past tense: irregular verbs (Group 7)
9-7 Before and after in time clauses
9-8 When in time clauses
9-9 Present progressive and past progressive
9-10 Using while with past progressive
9-11 Simple past tense vs. past progressive
Chapter 10 EXPRESSING FUTURE TIME, PART 1
10-1 Future time: using be going to
10-2 Using present progressive to express future time
10-3 Words used for past time and future time
10-4 Using a couple of or a few with ago (past) and in (future)
10-5 Using today, tonight, and this + morning, afternoon, evening, week, month, year
10-6 Future time: using will
10-7 Asking questions with will
10-8 Verb summary: present, past, and future
10-9 Verb summary: forms of be
Chapter 11 EXPRESSING FUTURE TIME, PART 2
11-1 May/might vs. will
11-2 Maybe (one word) vs. may be (two words)
11-3 Future time clauses with before, after, and when
11-4 Clauses with if
11-5 Expressing future and habitual present with time clauses and if-clauses
11-6 Using what + a form of do
Chapter 12 MODALS, PART 1: EXPRESSING ABILITY
12-1 Using can
12-2 Pronunciation of can and can’t
12-3 Using can: questions
12-4 Using know how to
12-5 Using could: past of can
12-6 Using be able to
12-7 Using very and too + adjective
Chapter 13 MODALS, PART 2: ADVICE, NECESSITY, REQUESTS, SUGGESTIONS
13-1 Using should
13-2 Using have + infinitive (have to/has to/had to)
13-3 Using must, have to/has to, and should
13-4 Polite questions: may I, could I, and can I
13-5 Polite questions: could you and would you
13-6 Imperative sentences
13-7 Modal auxiliaries
13-8 Summary chart: modal auxiliaries and similar expressions
13-9 Using let’s
Chapter 14 NOUNS AND MODIFIERS
14-1 Modifying nouns with adjectives and nouns
14-2 Word order of adjectives
14-3 Linking verbs + adjectives
14-4 Adjectives and adverbs
14-5 Expressions of quantity: all of, most of, some of, almost all of
14-6 Expressions of quantity: subject-verb agreement
14-7 Using every, everyone, everybody, everything
14-8 Indefinite pronouns: something, someone, somebody, anything, anyone, anybody
Chapter 15 MAKING COMPARISONS
15-1 The comparative: using -er and more
15-2 The superlative: using -est and most
15-3 Using one of + superlative + plural noun
15-4 Making comparisons with adverbs
15-5 Comparisons: using the same (as), similar (to), and different (from)
15-6 Comparisons: using like and alike
15-7 Using but
15-8 Using verbs after but
Appendix 1 English Handwriting
Appendix 2 Numbers
Appendix 3 Ways of Saying Time
Appendix 4 Days/Months/Seasons
Appendix 5 Supplementary Charts
A5-1 Basic capitalization rules
A5-2 Voiceless and voiced sounds for -s endings on verbs
A5-3 Final -ed pronunciation for simple past verbs
Listening Script
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