Understanding and Using English Grammar, Volume A, with Essential Online Resources
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Understanding and Using English Grammar, Volume A, with Essential Online Resources

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For nearly forty years, Understanding and Using English Grammar has been the go-to grammar resource for students and teachers alike. Its time-tested approach blends direct grammar instruction with carefully sequenced practice to develop all language skills. New to This Edition Pretests at the start of each chapter enable learners to check what they already know. Updated grammar charts reflect current usage and highlight differences between written and spoken English. A new chapter on article usage. A variety of high-interest readings include reviews, articles on current topics, and blogs that focus on student success. Additional incremental practice helps learners better grasp concepts, while thematic exercises and integrated tasks offer more contextualized language use. Step-by-step writing activities are supported by writing tips and pre-writing and editing tasks. New Essential Online Resources include Student Book audio, Student Book answer key, Grammar Coach videos, and self-assessments.

Table of Contents:
  Preface to the Fifth Edition   Acknowledgments   Chapter 1  PRESENT AND PAST; SIMPLE AND PROGRESSIVE   1-1   Simple Present and Present Progressive 1-2   Simple Present and Present Progressive:  Affirmative, Negative, Question Forms 1-3   Verbs Not Usually Used in the Progressive (Stative Verbs) 1-4   Simple Past Tense 1-5   Simple Past vs. Past Progressive 1-6   Unfulfilled Intentions:  Was/Were Going To   Chapter 2  PERFECT AND PERFECT PROGRESSIVE TENSES    2-1 Regular and Irregular Verbs  2-2 Irregular Verb List  2-3 Present Perfect:  Since and For  2-4 Present Perfect:  Unspecified Time and Repeated Events  2-5 Have and Has in Spoken English  2-6 Present Perfect vs. Simple Past  2-7 Present Perfect Progressive  2-8 Past Perfect  2-9 Hadin Spoken English  2-10  Past Perfect Progressive   Chapter 3  FUTURE TIME    3-1 Simple Future:  Forms of Will and Be Going To  3-2 Will vs. Be Going To  3-3 Expressing the Future in Time Clauses  3-4 Using the Present Progressive and the Simple Present to Express Future Time  3-5 Future Progressive  3-6 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive    Chapter 4  REVIEW OF VERB TENSES   Chapter 5 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT   5-1   Final -s/-es: Use and Spelling 5-2   Basic Subject-Verb Agreement 5-3   Collective Nouns 5-4   Subject-Verb Agreement: Using Expressions of Quantity 5-5   Subject-Verb Agreement: Using There + Be 5-6   Subject-Verb Agreement: Some Irregularities    Chapter 6  NOUNS   6-1   Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns 6-2   Nouns as Adjectives 6-3   Possessive Nouns 6-4   More About Expressing Possession 6-5   Count and Noncount Nouns 6-6   Noncount Nouns 6-7   Some Common Noncount Nouns 6-8   Expressions of Quantity Used with Count and Noncount Nouns 6-9   Using A Few and Few; A Little and Little 6-10   Singular Expressions of Quantity: One, Each, Every 6-11   Using Of in Expressions of Quantity   Chapter 7  ARTICLES   7-1   Articles (A, An, The) with Indefinite and Definite Nouns 7-2   Articles:  Generic Nouns  7-3   Descriptive Information with Definite and Indefinite Nouns 7-4   General Guidelines for Article Usage 7-5   Using The or Ø with Titles and Geographic Names     Chapter 8  PRONOUNS   8-1   Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives 8-2   Agreement with Generic Nouns and Indefinite Pronouns 8-3   Personal Pronouns: Agreement with Collective Nouns 8-4   Reflexive Pronouns 8-5   Using You, One, and They as Impersonal Pronouns 8-6   Forms of Other 8-7   Common Expressions with Other   Chapter 9  MODALS, PART 1   9-1   Basic Modal Introduction 9-2   Expressing Necessity:  Must, Have To, Have Got To 9-3   Lack of Necessity (Not Have To) and Prohibition (Must Not) 9-4   Advisability/Suggestions: Should, Ought To, Had Better, Could 9-5   Expectation:  Be Supposed To/Should 9-6   Ability:  Can, Know How To, and Be Able To 9-7   Possibility:  Can, May, Might 9-8   Requests and Responses with Modals 9-9   Polite Requests with Would You Mind 9-10   Making Suggestions: Let’s, Why Don’t, Shall I /We   Chapter 10 MODALS, PART 2   10-1   Using Would to Express a Repeated Action in the Past 10-2   Expressing the Past: Necessity, Advice, Expectation 10-3   Expressing Past Ability 10-4   Degrees of Certainty: Present Time 10-5   Degrees of Certainty: Present Time Negative 10-6   Degrees of Certainty: Past Time 10-7   Degrees of Certainty: Future Time 10-8   Progressive Forms of Modals 10-9   Combining Modals with Phrasal Modals 10-10 Expressing Preference: Would Rather 10-11 Summary Chart of Modals and Similar Expressions   Chapter 11  THE PASSIVE   11-1   Active vs. Passive 11-2   Tense Forms of the Passive 11-3   Using the Passive 11-4   The Passive Form of Modals and Phrasal Modals 11-5   Stative (Non-Progressive) Passive 11-6   Common Stative (Non-Progressive) Passive Verbs + Prepositions 11-7   The Passive with Get 11-8   -ed/-ing Adjectives     Appendix    SUPPLEMENTARY GRAMMAR CHARTS      Unit A: Basic Grammar Terminology A-1   Subjects, Verbs, and Objects A-2   Adjectives A-3   Adverbs A-4   Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases A-5   Preposition Combinations with Adjectives and Adverbs   Unit B: Questions B-1   Forms of Yes /No and Information Questions B-2   Question Words B-3   Shortened Yes/No Questions B-4   Negative Questions B-5   Tag Questions   Unit C: Contractions   Unit D: Negatives D-1   Using Not and Other Negative Words D-2   Avoiding Double Negatives D-3   Beginning a Sentence with a Negative Word   Unit E:  Verbs E-1   The Verb Be E-2   Spelling of -ing and -ed Verb Forms E-3   Overview of Verb Tenses E-4   Summary of Verb Tenses E-5   Regular Verbs:  Pronunciation of -ed Endings E-6   Pronunciation of Final -s in Verbs and Nouns E-7   Linking Verbs E-8   Troublesome Verbs: Raise/Rise, Set/Sit, Lay/Lie E-9   Irregular Verbs:  An Alphabetical Reference List   Listening Script Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780134268873
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson Education (US)
  • Height: 255 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Weight: 592 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0134268873
  • Publisher Date: 27 Mar 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 203 mm


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