Grammar express basic /
Marjorie Fuchs
- New York Pearson Education 2004
- 289 p.
ABOUT THE BOOK. The present (1). The present of be: statements. The present of be: questions. THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE: STATEMENTS. The present (2). The simple present: statements. The simple present: questions. NOS-ACTION VERBS. The past. The past of be. The simple past of regular verbs: statements. THE SIMPLE PAST OF IRREGULAR VERBS: STAEMENTS. The simple past: questions. The future. The future with be going to. THE FUTURE WITH BE GOING TO. The future with will. Word order. Word order. NOUNS, ARTICLES, AND QUANTIFIERS. Nouns: common/proper, singular/plural. Nouns: count/non-count. Articles: a/an and the. NO ARTICLE (O) OR THE. Quantifiers: some and any. Quantifiers: many, much, a few, a little, a lot of. There is, there are. PONOUNS AND POSSESSIVES. Pronouns: subject and object. Possessives. This, that, these, those. ONE, ONES. Adjectives and adverbs. Adjectives. Comparisons: as...as. COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES. Superlative adjectives. Adjectives with very, too, and enough. Adjectives and adverbs. MODALS (1). Ability: can, could. suggestions: why don`t, let`s, how about. Requests: will, would, can could. PERMISION: MAY, CAN COULD. Modals (2). Desires: would like, would rather. Possibility: may, might, could. Advice: should, ought to. NECESSITY: HAVE TO, MUST, DONT` HAVE TO, MUST NOT. Gerund and infinitives. Gerunds and infinitives. Infinitives of purpose. PREPOSITIONS, TWO-WORD VERBS, CONNECTORS. Prepositions of time. Prepositions of place. Prepositions of movement. TWO-WORD VERBS: INSEPARABLE. Two-word verbs: separable. Sentence connectors: and, but, or, so, because.