Focus on grammar : a high-intermediate course for reference and practice /
Marjorie Fuchs
- New York: Addison Wesley Longman Inc, 2000
- 432 p;
PRESENT AND PAST: REVIEW AND EXPANSION. Simple present tense and present progressive. Simple past tense and past progressive. Present perfect, present perfect progressive, and simple past tense. REVIEW AND EXPANSION. Future and future progressive. Future perfect and future perfect progressive. NEGATIVE QUESTIONS AND TAG QUESTIONS, ADDITIONS AND RESPONSES. Negative yes/no questions and tag questions. Additions and responses with so, too, neither, not either, and but. Avoiding repetition by using sentence additions. GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES. Gerunds and infinitives: review and expansion. Make, have, let, help, and get. Parallelism of gerunds and infinitives. PHRASAL VERBS. Phrasal verbs: review. phrasal verbs: separable and inseparable. Using the appropriate degree of formality. ADJECTIVE CLAUSES. Adjective clauses with subject relative pronouns. Adjective clauses with object relative pronouns or when and where. Adding details with adjective clauses. MODALS: REVIEW AND EXPANSION. Modals and modal-like verbs: review. Advisability and obligation in the past. Speculations and conclusions about the past. THE PASSIVE. The passive: overview. The passive with modals and modal-like expressions. The passive causative.