Contents Introduction and User’s Guide xii Basics • 1 Pronouns 1 – Subject pronouns 1 Pronouns 2 – Object pronouns 2 Pronouns 3 – Subject and object pronouns 3 Subject and Verb Agreement – Present simple 4 Yes/No Questions 1 – Present simple. Answer with object pronouns 5 • Pairwork Yes/No Questions 2 – Present simple. First and second person singular 6 • Pairwork Yes/No Questions 3 – Present simple. Third person singular 7 Yes/No Questions 4 – Present simple. Third person singular 8 • Pairwork Yes/No Questions 5 – Present simple. All persons 9 Yes/No Questions 6 – Mixed tenses with short answers 10 • Pairwork Negative Questions 11 Tag Questions 1 – Affirmative-Negative 12 Tag Questions 2 – Negative-Affirmative 13 Information Questions 1 – Write all WH questions 14 Information Questions 2 – Simple present. All WH questions 15 • Pairwork Information Questions 3 – with present progressive 16 Information Questions 4 – with past simple 17 Information Questions 5 – with Be going to 18 Information Questions 6 – Who and What as subjects and objects 19 Rejoinders 1 – Expressing surprise 20 Rejoinders 2 – Expressing surprise 21 • Pairwork Rejoinders 3 – with Neither and So 22 • Pairwork Rejoinders 4 – with Either and Too 23 • Pairwork Nonreferential There 1 – with Yes/No and information questions 24 Nonreferential There 2 – Statements 25 Nonreferential There 3 – Yes/No questions 26 • Pairwork

The Verb Phrase • 27 • To Be To Be 1 – Present simple statements 27 To Be 2 – Present simple Yes/No questions 28 To Be 3 – Present simple Yes/No questions 29 • Pairwork To Be 4 – Yes/No questions with short answers 30 • Pairwork To Be 5 – Yes/No questions. Third person singular Is 31 To Be 6 – Past simple 32 To Be 7 – Past simple 33 • Pairwork • v •

Grammar Practices contents.indd 5 2/5/11 3:52:25 PM • Present Tense Present Simple 1 – Third person singular 34 Present Simple 2 – with Are vs Do in questions 35 Present Simple 3 – Habitual usage, third person singular 36 Present Perfect 1 – with How long questions 37 Present Perfect 2 – Yes/No questions with Ever 38 Present Perfect 3 – with How many times 39 Present Perfect 4 – Various questions 40 • Pairwork Present Perfect 5 – Questions with How long 41 • Pairwork Present Perfect 6 – Questions with Ever 42 • Pairwork Present Perfect 7 – present perfect for past actions 43 Present Perfect 8 – or past simple? 44 Present Progressive 1 – Am, Are 45 Present Progressive 2 – Am, Are 46 Present Perfect Progressive 1 – with How long questions 47 Present Perfect Progressive 2 – with questions about recent activity 48 • Pairwork Present Perfect Progressive 3 – or present perfect? 49 Present Perfect Progressive 4 – or present perfect or past simple? 50 Present Perfect Progressive 5 – or present perfect? 51 • Pairwork

• Past Tense Past Simple 1 – with Be (Was/Were) and Do(Did) 52 Past Simple 2 – Regular verbs 53 • Pairwork Past Simple 3 – Irregular verbs 54 • Pairwork Past Simple 4 – Irregular verbs 55 • Pairwork Past Simple 5 – Irregular verbs with information questions 56 • Pairwork Past Perfect 1 – Yes/No questions and statements with By the time 57 Past Perfect 2 – with Before, When, and By the time 58 Past Perfect 3 – with By ... and Because 59 Past Perfect 4 – Before, When, By the time, and Had never 60 • Pairwork Past Progressive 1 – also called the “Past continuous” 61 Past Progressive 2 – also called the “Past continuous” 62 • Pairwork Various Past Tense Aspects – Past simple, present perfect, present perfect progressive, and past perfect 63 • Future Tense Future Simple 1 – Predictive with qualifiers 64 Future Simple 2 – Predictive with qualifiers 65 • Pairwork Future Simple 3 – Will vs Be going to 66 Future Simple 4 – Will vs Be going to 67 Other Future Forms 1 – Present progressive, future meaning 68 Other Future Forms 2 – Present progressive, future meaning 69 • Pairwork Other Future Forms 3 – Present simple, future meaning 70

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Grammar Practices contents.indd 6 2/5/11 3:52:25 PM Other Future Forms 4 – Present simple and present progressive, future meaning 71 Other Future Forms 5 – Future simple and future progressive, Will be and Will be ...ing 72 Future Perfect 1 – Future perfect questions with By ... (time) ... will ...? 73 Future Perfect 2 – Future perfect statements with By/At ... (time) 74 Future Perfect 3 – Future perfect and future perfect progressive 75 • Pairwork Various Future Forms – summary 76

• Modal Verbs Modal Verbs 1 – Requests: Can, Could, May, Would you mind 77 Modal Verbs 2 – Offers and invitations 78 Modal Verbs 3 – Suggestions 79 Modal Verbs 4 – Ability, Can/Can’t 80 Modal Verbs 5 – Ability Be able to 81 Modal Verbs 6 – Will as offer 82 Modal Verbs 7 – Will/Won’t as refusal 83 Modal Verbs 8 – Will/Won’t 84 • Pairwork Modal Verbs 9 – Be going to 85 Modal Verbs 10 – Be going to 86 • Pairwork Modal Verbs 11 – Probability: Must, Should 87 Modal Verbs 12 – Improbabiliy/impossibility Can’t, Couldn’t 88 Modal Verbs 13 – Possibility: Could, May, and Might 89 Modal Verbs 14 – Past Ability: Could, Was able to , Managed to 90 Modal Verbs 15 – Recommendation and advice: Should, Ought to 91 Modal Verbs 16 – Expectation: Be supposed to 92 Modal Verbs 17 – Reputation/Opinion: Be supposed to 93 Modal Verbs 18 – Obligation, negative necessity: Have to, Have got to 94 Modal Verbs 19 – Strong obligation: Had better 95 Modal Verbs 20 – Preference Would like to, Would rather, Would prefer to 96 Modal Verbs 21 – Past habitual: Would, Used to 97 Modal Verbs 22 – Modals in the past tense 98 Modal Verbs 23 – Modals in th past tense 99 Modal Verbs 24 – Modal review 100 • Phrasal Verbs Phrasal Verbs 1 – Separable 101 Phrasal Verbs 2 – Separable 102 Phrasal Verbs 3 – Separable 103 Phrasal Verbs 4 – Non-separable 104 Phrasal Verbs 5 – Non-separable 105 Phrasal Verbs 6 – Intransitive 106 Phrasal Verbs 7 – Intransitive 107 Phrasal Verbs 8 – Separable (easier) 108 • Pairwork Phrasal Verbs 9 – Separable (harder) 109 • Pairwork

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Grammar Practices contents.indd 7 2/5/11 3:52:25 PM • Other Verbal Structures Other Verbal Structures 1 – Causative Have/Get something done 110 Other Verbal Structures 2 – Causative Have someone Do, Get someone To do 111 Other Verbal Structures 3 – Causative Make 112 Other Verbal Structures 4 – Causative-like Let and Help 113 Other Verbal Structures 5 – Causative summary 114 Other Verbal Structures 6 – Transitive and intransitive werbs 115 Other Verbal Structures 7 – Verbs with indirect objects 116 Other Verbal Structures 8 – Indirect object with To or For 117

• Passive Voice Passive Voice 1 – Present simple 118 Passive Voice 2 – Present simple and past simple 119 Passive Voice 3 – Passive infinitive and modal verb 120 Passive Voice 4 – Past simple (Test your knowledge) 121 • Pairwork Passive Voice 5 – Various tenses 122 • Pairwork Passive Voice 6– Passive or active? 123 Passive Voice 7 – Passive Get and Get with an adjective 124 Passive Voice 8 – Passive past modals 125

The Noun Phrase • 126 Noun Forms 1 – Singular/plural; count/noncount 126 Noun forms 2 – Singular/plural; count/noncount 127 Quantifiers 1 – with count and noncount nouns 128 Quantifiers 2 – General and specific quantifiers 129 Quantifiers 3 – with count nouns 130 Quantifiers 4 – with count nouns 131 • Pairwork Quantifiers 5 – Neither, Either, Both, None, Any, All 132 Nouns with adjectival phrases – Adjective compounds expressing measurement 133 “OTHER” words – Another, The other, The others 134 Articles 1 – General or specific? 135 Articles 2 – The definite article 136 Articles 3 – Indefinite articles 137 Articles 4 – Definite and indefinite articles 138 Articles 5 – Summary 139 • Pairwork Possessive Adjectives – My, Your, His, Her, Its, Our, Their 140 Possessive Pronouns – Mine, Yours, His, Hers, Ours, Theirs 141 Possessive ‘S 142 Ordinal Numbers 143 Indefinite Pronouns – You, We, They, One 144

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Grammar Practices contents.indd 8 2/5/11 3:52:25 PM Adjectives • 145 Participles 1 – Participial adjectives 145 Participles 2 – Present or past participle? 146 Participles 3 – Participles as adjectives 147 Comparison 1 – Comparison with ER 148 Comparison 2 – Comparison with More/Less… than 149 Comparison 3 – Various Comparisons 150 • Pairwork Comparison 4 – Superlative The ...est 151 Comparison 5 – Superlative: The most/least ... 152 Comparison 6 – Superlative: The ...est 153 • Pairwork Comparison 7 – Irregular comparison/superlative 154 Comparison 8 – As ... as 155

Adverbials • 156 Prepositions 1 – Place: In, On, At 156 Prepositions 2 – Time: In, On, At 157 Prepositions 3 – Movement, direction, and location 158 Adverbial Phrases 1 – Purpose who To and For 159 Adverbial Phrases 2 – Until and By 160 Adverbial Phrases 3 – While and During 161 Adverbs 1 – Common adverbs 162 Adverbs 2 – Common adverbs 163 • Pairwork Intensifiers – Very and Too 164 Frequency Adverbs 1 – Adverbs and adverbial phrases 165 Frequency Adverbs 2 – Summary 166 • Pairwork

Clauses • 167 Conditional 1 – Factual 167 Conditional 2– Future predictive 168 Conditional 3 – Future 169 • Pairwork Conditional 4– Imaginative unreal present 170 Conditional 5 – Imaginative unreal future 171 Conditional 6 – Unreal 172 • Pairwork Conditional 7 – Unreal past 173 Conditional 8 – Real and unreal 174 Wish 175 Hope and Wish 176 Relative 1 – Relative (adjective) clauses 177 Relative 2 – That/which, Whom 178 Relative 3 – Whose and deletion 179 Relative 4 – Reduced clause with past participle 180 Relative 5 – Reduced clause with present participle 181 Relative 6 – All types 182

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Grammar Practices contents.indd 9 2/5/11 3:52:25 PM Relative 7 – Summary 183 • Pairwork Relative 8 – Nonrestrictive 184 Complementation 1 – Adjectives with gerunds 185 Complementation 2 – Adjectives with gerunds 186 Complementation 3 – Verbs with gerunds 187 Complementation 4 – Verbs with gerunds 188 • Pairwork Complementation 5 – Prepositional phrases with gerunds 189 Complementation 6 – Gerunds and passive participles 190 Complementation 7 – Infinitives 191 Complementation 8 – Question words with infinitives 192 Complementation 9 – Adjectives with infinitives 1 193 Complementation 10 – Adjectives with infinities 2 194 Complementation 11 – Infinitives after a noun phrase 195 Complementation 12 – Infinitives as subject complements 196 Complementation 13 – Verb + object + infinitive 197 Complementation 14 – Infinitives 198 • Pairwork Complementation 15 – Active or passive infinitive? 199 Complementation 16 – Gerund or infinitive? 1 200 Complementation 17 – Gerund or infinitive? 2 201 Complementation 18 – Active or passive gerunds and infinitives? 202 Noun 1 – That clauses 203 Noun 2 – Embedded questions 204 Noun 3 – Embedded Yes/No questions 205 Noun 4 – Noun clauses beginning with question words 206 Noun 5 – Embedded questions 207 • Pairwork Noun 6 – Embedded questions 208 • Pairwork Noun 7 – Reported speech 209 Noun 8 – Reported speech: Time and location changes 210 Noun 9 – Reported speech 211 • Pairwork So and Such with That clause 212

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