Preface to the Fifth Edition

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 PRESENT AND PAST; SIMPLE AND PROGRESSIVE

1-1 Simple Present and Present Progressive

1-2 Simple Present and Present Progressive: Affirmative, Negative, Question Forms

1-3 Verbs Not Usually Used in the Progressive (Stative Verbs)

1-4 Simple Past Tense

1-5 Simple Past vs. Past Progressive

1-6 Unfulfilled Intentions: Was/Were Going To

Chapter 2 PERFECT AND PERFECT PROGRESSIVE TENSES

2-1 Regular and Irregular Verbs

2-2 Irregular Verb List

2-3 Present Perfect: Since and For

2-4 Present Perfect: Unspecified Time and Repeated Events

2-5 Have and Has in Spoken English

2-6 Present Perfect vs. Simple Past

2-7 Present Perfect Progressive

2-8 Past Perfect

2-9 Hadin Spoken English

2-10 Past Perfect Progressive

Chapter 3 FUTURE TIME

3-1 Simple Future: Forms of Will and Be Going To

3-2 Will vs. Be Going To

3-3 Expressing the Future in Time Clauses

3-4 Using the Present Progressive and the Simple Present to Express Future Time

3-5 Future Progressive

3-6 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive

Chapter 4 REVIEW OF VERB TENSES

Chapter 5 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

5-1 Final -s/-es: Use and Spelling

5-2 Basic Subject-Verb Agreement

5-3 Collective Nouns

5-4 Subject-Verb Agreement: Using Expressions of Quantity

5-5 Subject-Verb Agreement: Using There + Be

5-6 Subject-Verb Agreement: Some Irregularities

Chapter 6 NOUNS

6-1 Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns

6-2 Nouns as Adjectives

6-3 Possessive Nouns

6-4 More About Expressing Possession

6-5 Count and Noncount Nouns

6-6 Noncount Nouns

6-7 Some Common Noncount Nouns

6-8 Expressions of Quantity Used with Count and Noncount Nouns

6-9 Using A Few and Few; A Little and Little

6-10 Singular Expressions of Quantity: One, Each, Every

6-11 Using Of in Expressions of Quantity

Chapter 7 ARTICLES

7-1 Articles (A, An, The) with Indefinite and Definite Nouns

7-2 Articles: Generic Nouns

7-3 Descriptive Information with Definite and Indefinite Nouns

7-4 General Guidelines for Article Usage

7-5 Using The or Ø with Titles and Geographic Names

Chapter 8 PRONOUNS

8-1 Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives

8-2 Agreement with Generic Nouns and Indefinite Pronouns

8-3 Personal Pronouns: Agreement with Collective Nouns

8-4 Reflexive Pronouns

8-5 Using You, One, and They as Impersonal Pronouns

8-6 Forms of Other

8-7 Common Expressions with Other

Chapter 9 MODALS, PART 1

9-1 Basic Modal Introduction

9-2 Expressing Necessity: Must, Have To, Have Got To

9-3 Lack of Necessity (Not Have To) and Prohibition (Must Not)

9-4 Advisability/Suggestions: Should, Ought To, Had Better, Could

9-5 Expectation: Be Supposed To/Should

9-6 Ability: Can, Know How To, and Be Able To

9-7 Possibility: Can, May, Might

9-8 Requests and Responses with Modals

9-9 Polite Requests with Would You Mind

9-10 Making Suggestions: Let’s, Why Don’t, Shall I /We

Chapter 10 MODALS, PART 2

10-1 Using Would to Express a Repeated Action in the Past

10-2 Expressing the Past: Necessity, Advice, Expectation

10-3 Expressing Past Ability

10-4 Degrees of Certainty: Present Time

10-5 Degrees of Certainty: Present Time Negative

10-6 Degrees of Certainty: Past Time

10-7 Degrees of Certainty: Future Time

10-8 Progressive Forms of Modals

10-9 Combining Modals with Phrasal Modals

10-10 Expressing Preference: Would Rather

10-11 Summary Chart of Modals and Similar Expressions

Chapter 11 THE PASSIVE

11-1 Active vs. Passive

11-2 Tense Forms of the Passive

11-3 Using the Passive

11-4 The Passive Form of Modals and Phrasal Modals

11-5 Stative (Non-Progressive) Passive

11-6 Common Stative (Non-Progressive) Passive Verbs + Prepositions

11-7 The Passive with Get

11-8 -ed/-ing Adjectives