Now in its second edition, this book helps English learners gain an excellent foundation in English grammar
through numerous exercises and discussion topics.
Uses discussion topics such as pollution, politics, and cultural differences to present grammar structures and
oral and written exercises.
For advanced ESL learners.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Tense Review.
Lesson One. Present Time. Non-Continuous Verbs. Past Time to Present Time. Past Time. Future Time. Adverbial
Time Expressions.
Lesson Two. Past Perfect. Past Perfect Continuous.
Lesson Three. Future Continuous. Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous. Practice Exam.
Part 2: Coordination.
Lesson Four. Coordinating Conjunctions an Parallel Structure. Connecting Complete Sentences. Connecting More
Than Two Sentences.
Lesson Five. Correlative Conjunctions: Either . . . Or. Correlative Conjunctions: Neither . . .Nor.
Correlative Conjunctions: Not Only . . but Also. Correlative Conjunctions: Both . . .And.
Lesson Six. Conjunctive Adverbs. Position and Punctuation of Conjunctive Adverbs. Practice Exam.
Part 3: Indirect Speech.
Lesson Seven. Basics of Indirect Speech. Reporting Statements. Reporting Questions and Answers. Reporting Commands
and Requests. Reporting Exclamations. Practice Exam.
Part 4: Subordination.
Lesson Eight. Adverb Clauses. Sequences of Tenses. Building of Tenses. Building Sentences with Adverb Clauses.
Reduction of Adverb Clauses. Practice Exam.
Lesson Nine. Adjective Clauses. Necessary vs. Unnecessary Adjective Clauses. Grammatical Functions of Relative
Pronouns. Unnecessary Adjective Clauses That Refer to Complete Sentences. Reduction of Adjective Clauses. Practice
Exam.
Lesson Ten. Noun Clauses. -Ever Words in Noun Clauses. Noun Clauses Beginning with That. Subjunctive
Form of the Verb in Noun Clauses. Practice Exam.
Part 5: Passive Voice.
Lesson Eleven. Forming the Passive. Using the Passive. Indirect Objects and Direct Objects as Passive Subjects.
Practice Exam.
Part 6: Modal Auxiliaries.
Lesson Twelve. Advisability vs. Necessity. Past Regrets and Criticisms: Should, Ought To. Logical Conclusion
vs. Expectation. Suggestions: Could. Possibilities: May, Might, Could. Negative Possibilities and Impossibilities.
Degrees of Certainty. Practice Exam.
Part 7: Conditional Sentences.
Lesson Thirteen. Future Real vs. Present/Future Unreal. Past Unreal. Replacing If. Mixed Conditional
Sentences. Practice Exam.
Part 8: Verbals.
Lesson Fourteen. Simple Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases. Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase Functioning as Subject
and Subject Complement. Infinitive/ Infinitive Phrase Functioning as Direct Object. Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase
Functioning as Adjective and Adjective Complement. Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase with Enough and Too.
Practice Exam.
Lesson Fifteen. Gerunds. Gerund/Gerund Phrase Functioning as Subject and Subject Complement. Gerund/Gerund Phrase
Functioning as Direct Object vs. Infinitive as Direct Object. Gerund/Gerund Phrase Functioning as Object of a Preposition.
Practice Exam.
Appendix 1: Irregular Verbs.
Appendix 2: Modal Auxiliaries.
Appendix 3: Verbs Followed by Infinitives.
Appendix 4: Verbs Followed by Gerunds.
Appendix 5: Verbs Followed by Gerunds or Infinitives.
Index
