Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
PART V: ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS: REVIEW AND EXPANSION
Unit 22 ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
Transcript of a conversation between a couple visiting an apartment for rent and its owner
Unit 23 ADJECTIVES: COMPARATIVES AND EQUATIVES
Restaurant review:
Bigger and (Often) Better
Unit 24 ADJECTIVES: SUPERLATIVES
Greeting cards (holidays, birthday, Valentine's Day, etc.)
Unit 25 ADVERBS: EQUATIVES, COMPARATIVES, SUPERLATIVES
Transcript of a TV halftime report: two sportscasters discussing a basketball game
Review or SelfTest
From Grammar to Writing:
USING DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
Writing a descriptive paragraph
PART VI: GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES
Unit 26 GERUNDS: SUBJECT AND OBJECT
Online bulletin board about smoking:
Can't Stand Seeing Those Signs!
Unit 27 GERUNDS AFTER PREPOSITIONS
School bulletin board (different types of notices)
Unit 28 INFINITIVES AFTER CERTAIN VERBS
Advice column: Ask Annie
Unit 29 INFINITIVES OF PURPOSE
Ad for an electronic pocket organizer: Datalator
Unit 30 INFINITIVES WITH TOO AND ENOUGH
Transcript of a radio talk show about voting rights for people under age eighteen
Unit 31 GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES
Self-help magazine article about remembering names: Stop Forgetting
Review or SelfTest
From Grammar to Writing:
COMBINING SENTENCES WITH AND, BUT, SO, OR
Writing a personal letter
PART VII: MORE MODALS AND RELATED VERBS AND EXPRESSIONS
Unit 32 PREFERENCES: PREFER, WOULD PREFER, WOULD RATHER
Questionnaire about preferences:
Leisure Time Activities
Unit 33 NECESSITY: HAVE (GOT) TO, DON'T HAVE TO, MUST, MUST NOT, CAN'T
Introduction to a driver's manual: Becoming a Safe Driver
Unit 34 EXPECTATIONS: BE SUPPOSED TO
Excerpt from an etiquette book: Wedding Wisdom
Unit 35 FUTURE POSSIBILITY: MAY, MIGHT, COULD
Transcript of a TV weather report
Unit 36 ASSUMPTIONS: MUST, HAVE (GOT) TO, MAY, MIGHT, COULD, CAN'T
Excerpt from a Sherlock Holmes story:
The Red-Headed League
Review or SelfTest
From Grammar to Writing:
COMBINING SENTENCES WITH BECAUSE, ALTHOUGH, EVEN THOUGH
Writing a business letter
PART VIII: NOUNS AND ARTICLES
Unit 37 NOUNS AND QUANTIFIERS
History text about modern explorer Thor Heyerdahl:
Who Really Discovered America?
Unit 38 ARTICLES:
INDEFINITE AND DEFINITE
Ad for a video game: Space Defender
Review or SelfTest
From Grammar to Writing:
THE FORM OF AN ESSAY:
Writing a three-paragraph essay
APPENDICES
1 Irregular Verbs
2 Common Non-action (Stative) Verbs
3 Verbs and Expressions Commonly Used Reflexively
4 Some Common Transitive Separable Phrasal Verbs
5 Some Common Intransitive Phrasal Verbs
6 Common Participial Adjectives
7 Irregular Comparisons of Adjectives, Adverbs, and Quantifiers
8 Some Adjectives that Form the Comparative and Superlative in Two Ways
9 Common Verbs Followed by the Gerund (Base Form of Verb + -ing)
10 Common Verbs Followed by the Infinitive (To + Base Form of Verb)
11 Common Verbs Followed by the Gerund or the Infinitive
12 Verbs Followed by Objects and the Infinitive
13 Common Adjective + Preposition Expressions
14 Common Verb + Preposition Combinations
15 Spelling Rules for the Present Progressive
16 Spelling Rules for the Simple Present Tense: Third-Person Singular (he, she, it)
17 Spelling Rules for the Simple Past Tense of Regular Verbs
18 Spelling Rules for the Comparative (-er) and Superlative (-est) Forms of Adjectives
19 Spelling Rules for Adverbs Ending in -ly
20 Contractions with Verb Forms
21 Pronunciation Table
22 Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Present Tense. Third-Person Singular (he, she, it)
23 Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Past Tense of Regular Verbs
Index
