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Contents of English Grammar Fundamentals eBook
- Chapter 1. PRESENT TlME
- The simple present and the present progressive
- Forms of the simple present and the present progressive
- Frequencyadverbs
- Final
- Spelling of final es
- Non action verbs
- Present verbs: short answers to yestno questions
- Chapter 2. PAST TlME
- Expressing past time: the simple past
- Forms of the simple past: regular verbs
- Forms of the simple past: be
- Regular verbs: pronunciation of ed endings
- Spelling of ing and ed forms
- The principal parts of a verb
- Irregular verbs: a reference list
- The simple past and the past progressive
- Forms of the past progressive
- Expressing past time: using time clauses
- Expressing past habit: used to
- Chapter 3. FUTURE TlME
- Expressing future time: be going to and will
- Formswithbsgoingto
- FormswithwiU
- Sureness about the future
- Bsgoingtovs wil
- Expressing the future in time clauses and $ clauses
- Using the present progressive to express future time
- Using the simple present to express future time
- Immediate future: using be about to
- Parallelverbs
- Chapter 4. THE PRESENT PERFECT AND THE PAST PERFECT
- Past participle
- Forms of the present perfect
- Meanings of the present perfect
- Simple past vs present perfect
- Present perfect progressive
- kesent perfect progressive vs present perfect
- Using already, yet, still, and anymore ~
- Pastperfect
- Chapter 5. ASKING QUESTIONS
- Whore why when and what time
- Questions with who who(m) and what
- Spoken and written contractions with question words
- Plural forms of nouns
- Subjects verbs and objects
- Objects of prepositions
- Prepositions of time
- Word order: place and time
- Subject verb agreement
- Using adjectives to describe nouns
- Using nouns as adjectives
- Personal pronouns: subjects and objects
- Possessive nouns
- Possessive pronouns and adjectives
- Singular forms of other: another vs the other
- Plural forms of other: other(s) vs the other(s)
- Summary of forms of other
- Chapter 6. MODAL AUXILIARIES
- The form of modal auxiliaries
- Expressing ability: can and could
- Expressing possibility: may and might
- Expressing permission: may and can
- Using could to express possibility
- Polite questions: may I could I can I
- Expressing advice: should and ought to
- Expressing advice: had better
- Expressing necessity: have to haw got to must
- Expressing lack of necessity: do not haw to
- Expressing prohibition: must not
- Making logical conclusions: must
- Giving instructions: imperative sentences ~ Making suggestions: let’s and why don’t ,I ‘
- Stating preferences: prefer lliko better would rather
- Chapter 7. CONNECTING IDEAS
- Connecting ideas with and
- Connecting ideas with but and or
- Chapter 8. COMPARISONS
- Making comparisons with as as
- Comparative and superlative
- Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs Completing a comparative
- Modifying comparatives Comparisons with less than and not as as
- Unclear comparisons Using more with nouns ,
- Repeating a comparative
- kit Using double comparatives
- Chapter 9. COUNTINONCOUNT NOUNS AND ARTICLES
- Noncountnouns
- Morenoncountnouns
- Using several, a lot of, manylmuch, and afowla little
- Nouns that can be count or noncount
- Using units of measure with noncount nouns ; Guidelines for article usage
- Using the or with names
- Capitalization
- Chapter 10. ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
- Adjective clauses: introduction
- Using who and whom in adjective clauses
- Using who who(m) and that in adjective clauses
- Using which and that in adjective clauses
- Singular and plural verbs in adjective clauses
- Using prepositions in adjective clauses
- Using whose in adjective clauses
- Chapter 11. GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES
- Verb + gerund
- Go+ ing
- Verb+infinitive
- Verb + gerund or infinitive
- Preposition + gerund
- Using by and with to express how something is done
- Using gerunds as subjects; using it + infinitive
- Noun clauses: introduction
- Noun clauses that begin with a question word
- Noun clauses with who what whose + be
- Noun clauses that begin with ifor whether
- Noun clauses that begin with that
- Other uses of that clauses
- Substituting so for a that clause in conversational responses
- Quoted speech
- Quoted speech vs reported speech
- Verb forms in reported speech
