Communicate What You Mean: Concise Advanced Grammar, A 2nd Ed.

Description: Each part begins with a summary of what is covered in the units that follow.Each unit concludes with a practice exam to review material and pinpoint areas needing work.

Grammar structures(with examples)are followed by contextual exercises that let students practice the structures and think about what to say rather than simply complete a series of unrelated statements.

The built-in repetition of structures from lesson to lesson reviews material previously learned while presenting new material

Contents: Preface PART 1: TENSE REVIEW Lesson One1-1 Present Time1-2 Non-continuous Verbs1-3 Past Time to Present Time1-4 Past Time1-5 Future Time1-6 Adverbial Time Expressions Lesson Two2-1 Past Perfect2-2 Past Perfect Continuous Lesson Three3-1 Future Continuous3-2 Future Perfect and Future Perfect continuousPractice Exam PART 2: COORDINATION Lesson Four4-1 Coordinating Conjunctions and Parallel Structure4-2 Connecting Complete Sentences4-3 Connecting more Than Two Sentences Lesson Five5-1 Correlative Conjunctions: Either ... Or5-2 Correlative Conjunctions: Neither ... Nor5-3 Correlative Conjunctions: Not only ... But also5-4 Correlative Conjunctions: Both ... And Lesson Six6-1 Conjunctive Adverbs6-2 Position and Punctuation of Conjunctive AdverbsPractice Exam Part 3: INDIRECT SPEECH Lesson Seven7-1 Basics of Indirect Speech7-2 Reporting Statements7-3 Reporting Questions and Answers7-4 Reporting Commands and Requests7-5 Reporting ExclamationsPractice Exam PART 4: SUBORDINATION Lesson Eight8-1 Adverbial Clauses8-2 Sequence of Tenses8-3 Building Sentences with Adverb Clauses8-4 Reduction of Adverb ClausesPractice Exam Lesson Nine9-1 Adjective Clauses9-2 Necessary vs. Unnecessary Adjective Clauses9-3 Grammatical Functions of Relative Pronouns9-4 Unnecessary Adjective Clauses That Refer to Complete Sentences9-5 Reduction of Adjective ClausesPractice Exam Lesson Ten10-1 Noun Clauses10-2 -Ever Words in Noun Clauses10-3 Noun Clauses Beginning with That10-4 Subjunctive form of the Verb in Noun ClausesPractice Exam PART 5: PASSIVE VOICE Lesson Eleven11-1 Forming the Passive11-2 Using the Pressure11-3 Indirect Objects and Direct Objects as Passive Subjects PART 6: Modal Auxiliaries Lesson Twelve12-1 Advisability vs. Necessity12-2 Past Regrets and Criticisms: Should, Ought to12-3 Logical Conclusion vs. Expectation12-4 Suggestions: Could1205 Possibilities: May, Might, Could12-6 Possibilities and Impossibilities12-7 Degrees of CertaintyPractice Elam PART 7: CONDITIONAL SENTENCES Lesson Thirteen 13-1 Future Real vs. Present/Future Unreal 13-2 Past Unreal 13-3 Replacing If 13-4 Mixed Conditional SentencesPractice Exam PART 8: VERBALS Lesson Fourteen 14-1 Simple Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases 14-2 Phrase Functioning as Subject and Subject Combined 14-3 Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase Functioning as Direct Object 14-4 Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase Functioning as Adjective and Adjective Complement 14-5 Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase Functioning as Adverb 14-6 Reduction with Infinitive Phrases 14-7 Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase with Enough and TooPractice Exam Lesson Fifteen15-1 Gerunds15-2 Gerund/Gerund Phrase Functioning as Subject and Subject Complement15-3 Gerund/Gerund Phrase Functioning as Direct Order15-4 Gerund as Direct Object vs. Infinitive as Direct Object15-5 Gerund/Gerund Phrase Functioning as Object of a prepositionPractice 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