Understanding & Using English Grammar 2nd Ed. Student's Full

Description: A classic developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced students of English, Understanding and Using English Grammar is a comprehensive reference grammar as well as a stimulating and teachable classroom text. While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the Third Edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities. Some of the new features are: Numerous "real communication" opportunities More options for interactive work in pairs and groups Additional open-ended communicative tasks for both speaking and writing Expanded error analysis exercises Interesting and lively new exercise material Shorter units for easy class use The program components include the Student Book, Workbook, Chartbook, Teacher's Guide, and Companion Website. Also available: Understanding and Using English Grammar Interactive (a multimedia CD-ROM).



Contents: CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW OF VERB TENSES 1-1 The Simple Tenses 1-2 The Progressive Tenses 1-3 The Perfect Tenses 1-4 The Perfect Progressive Tenses 1-5 Summary Chart of Verb Tenses 1-6 Spelling of -ing and -ed Forms CHAPTER 2 PRESENT AND PAST, SIMPLE AND PROGRESSIVE 2-1 Simple Present 2-2 Present Progressive 2-3 Stative Verbs 2-4 am/is/are being + Adjective 2-5 Regular and Irregular Verbs 2-6 Regular Verbs: Pronunciation of -ed Endings 2-7 Irregular Verbs: An Alphabetical List 2-8 Troublesome Verbs: raise/rise, set/sit, lay/lie 2-9 Simple Past 2-10 Past Progressive 2-11 Using Progressive Verbs with always to Complain 2-12 Using Expressions of Place with Progressive Verbs CHAPTER 3 PERFECT AND PERFECT PROGRESSIVE TENSES 3-1 Present Perfect 3-2 Present Perfect Progressive 3-3 Past Perfect 3-4 Past Perfect Progressive CHAPTER 4 FUTURE TIME 4-1 Simple Future: will and be going to 4-2 will vs.be going to 4-3 Expressing the Future in Time Clauses 4-4 Using the Present Progressive and the Simple Present to Express Future Time 4-5 Future Progressive 4-6 Future Perfect 4-7 Future Perfect Progressive CHAPTER 5 ADVERB CLAUSES OF TIME AND REVIEW OF VERB TENSES 5-1 Adverb Clauses of Time: Form 5-2 Using Adverb Clauses to Show Time Relationships CHAPTER 6 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT 6-1 Final -s/-es Use, Pronunciation, and Spelling 6-2 Basic Subject-Verb Agreement 6-3 Subject-Verb Agreement: Using Expressions of Quantity 6-4 Subject-Verb Agreement: Using there + be 6-5 Subject-Verb Agreement: Some Irregularities CHAPTER 7 NOUNS 7-1 Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns 7-2 Possessive Nouns 7-3 Using Nouns as Modifiers 7-4 Count and Noncount Nouns 7-5 Noncount Nouns 7-6 Some Common Noncount Nouns 7-7 Basic Article Usage 7-8 General Guidelines For Article Usage 7-9 Expressions of Quantity 7-10 Using a few and few; a little and little 7-11 Using of in Expressions of Quantity 7-12 all (of) and both (of) 7-13 Singular Expressions of Quantity: one, each, every CHAPTER 8 PRONOUNS 8-1 Personal Pronouns 8-2 Personal Pronouns: 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 Introduction 9-2 Polite Questions with I as the Subject 9-3 Polite Questions with you as the Subject 9-4 Polite Requests with would you mind 9-5 Expressing Necessity: must, have to, have got to 9-6 Lack of Necessity and Prohibition: have to and must in the Negative 9-7 Advisability: should, ought to, had better 9-8 The Past Form of should 9-9 Expectations: be supposed to 9-10 Making Suggestions: let's, why don't, shall we 9-11 Making Suggestions: could vs. should CHAPTER 10 MODALS, PART 2 10-1 Degrees of Certainty: Present Time 10-2 Degrees of Certainty: Present Time Negative 10-3 Degrees of Certainty: Past Time 10-4 Degrees of Certainty: Future Time 10-5 Progressive Forms of Modals 10-6 Ability: can and could 10-7 Using would to Express a Repeated Action in the Past 10-8 Expressing Preference: would rather 10-9 Combining Modals with Phrasal Modals 10-10 Summary Chart of Modals and Similar Expressions CHAPTER 11 THE PASSIVE 11-1 Forming the Passive 11-2 Using the Passive 11-3 Indirect Objects Used as Passive Subjects 11-4 The Passive Form of Modals and Phrasal Modals 11-5 Stative Passive 11-6 Common Stative Passive Verbs + Prepositions 11-7 The Passive with get 11-8 Participial Adjectives CHAPTER 12 NOUN CLAUSES 12-1 Introduction 12-2 Noun Clauses Beginning with a Question Word 12-3 Noun Clauses Beginning with whether or if 12-4 Question Words Followed by Infinitives 12-5 Noun Clauses Beginning with that 12-6 Quoted Speech 12-7 Reported Speech: Verb Forms in Noun Clauses 12-8 Using The Subjunctive in Noun Clauses 12-9 Using -ever Words CHAPTER 13 ADJECTIVE CLAUSES 13-1 Introduction 13-2 Adjective Clause Pronouns Used as the Subject 13-3 Adjective Clause Pronouns Used as the Object of a Verb 13-4 Adjective Clause Pronouns Used as the Object of a Preposition 13-5 Usual Patterns of Adjective Clauses 13-6 Using whose 13-7 Using where in Adjective Clauses 13-8 Using when in Adjective Clauses 13-9 Using Adjective Clauses to Modify Pronouns 13-10 Punctuating Adjective Clauses 13-11 Using Expressions of Quantity in Adjective Clauses 13-12 Using Noun + of which 13-13 Using which to Modify a Whole Sentence 13-14 Reducing Adjective Clauses to Adjective Phrases: Introduction 13-15 Changing an Adjective Clause to an Adjective Phrase CHAPTER 14 GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES, PART 1 14-1 Gerunds: Introduction 14-2 Using Gerunds as the Objects of Prepositions 14-3 Common Preposition Combinations Followed by Gerunds 14-4 Common Verbs Followed by Gerunds 14-5 go + Gerund 14-6 Special Expressions Followed by -ing 14-7 Common Verbs Followed by Infinitives 14-8 Common Verbs Followed by Either Infinitives or Gerunds 14-9 Reference List of Verbs Followed by Gerunds 14-10 Reference List of Verbs Followed by Infinitives 14-11 it + Infinitive; Gerunds and Infinitives as Subjects CHAPTER 15 GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES, PART 2 15-1 Infinitive of Purpose: in order to 15-2 Adjectives Followed by Infinitives 15-3 Using Infinitives With too and enough 15-4 Passive and Past Forms of Infinitives and Gerunds 15-5 Using Gerunds or Passive Infinitives Following need 15-6 Using a Possessive to Modify a Gerund 15-7 Using Verbs of Perception 15-8 Using the Simple Form after let and help 15-9 Using Causative Verbs: make, have, get CHAPTER 16 COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS 16-1 Parallel Structure 16-2 Using Paired Conjunctions: both . . . and; not only . . . but also; either . . . or; neither . . . nor 16-3 Combining Independent Clauses with Coordinating Conjunctions CHAPTER 17 ADVERB CLAUSES 17-1 Introduction 17-2 Using Adverb Clauses to Show Cause and Effect 17-3 Expressing Contrast (Unexpected Result): Using even though 17-4 Showing Direct Contrast: while and whereas 17-5 Expressing Conditions in Adverb Clauses: if-Clauses 17-6 Adverb Clauses of Condition: Using whether or not and even if 17-7 Adverb Clauses of Condition: Using in case and in the event that 17-8 Adverb Clauses of Condition: Using unless 17-9 Adverb Clauses of Condition: Using only if CHAPTER 18 REDUCTION OF ADVERB CLAUSES TO MODIFYING ADVERBIAL PHRASES 18-1 Introduction 18-2 Changing Time Clauses to Modifying Adverbial Phrases 18-3 Expressing The Idea of "During The Same Time" in Modifying Adverbial Phrases 18-4 Expressing Cause and Effect in Modifying Adverbial Phrases 18-5 Using upon + -ing in Modifying Adverbial Phrases CHAPTER 19 CONNECTIVES THAT EXPRESS CAUSE AND EFFECT, CONTRAST. AND CONDITION 19-1 Using because of and due to 19-2 Using Transitions to Show Cause and Effect: therefore and consequently 19-3 Summary of Patterns and Punctuation 19-4 Other Ways of Expressing Cause and Effect: such . . . that and so . . . that 19-5 Expressing Purpose: Using so that 19-6 Showing Contrast (Unexpected Result) 19-7 Showing Direct Contrast 19-8 Expressing Conditions: Using otherwise and or (else) 19-9 Summary of Connectives: Cause and Effect, Contrast, Condition Chapter 20 CONDITIONAL SENTENCES AND WISHES 20-1 Overview of Basic Verb Forms Used in Conditional Sentences 20-2 True in the Present or Future 20-3 Untrue (Contrary to Fact) in the Present or Future 20-4 Untrue (Contrary to Fact) in the Past 20-5 Using Progressive Verb Forms in Conditional Sentences 20-6 Using "Mixed Time" in Conditional Sentences 20-7 Omitting if 20-8 Implied Conditions 20-9 Using as if / as though 20-10 Verb Forms Following wish 20-11 Using would to Make Wishes about the Future APPENDIX: SUPPLEMENTARY GRAMMAR UNITS Unit A: Basic Grammar Terminology A-1 Subjects, Verbs, and Objects A-2 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases A-3 Adjectives A-4 Adverbs A-5 The Verb be A-6 Linking Verbs Unit B: Questions B-1 Forms of Yes/No and Information Questions B-2 Question Words B-3 Shortened Yes/No Questions B-4 Negative Questions B-5 Tag Questions Unit C: Contractions Unit D: Negatives D-1 Using not and Other Negative Words D-2 Avoiding Double Negatives D-3 Beginning a Sentence with a Negative Word Unit E: Preposition Combinations E Preposition Combinations with Adjectives and Verbs Unit F: Connectives to Give Examples and to Continue an Idea F-1 Connectives to Give Examples F-2 Connectives to Continue the Same Idea Unit G: Verb Form Review Exercises





A classic developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced students of English, Understanding and Using English Grammar is a comprehensive reference grammar as well as a stimulating and teachable classroom text. While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the Third Edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities. Some of the new features are: *Numerous "real communication" opportunities *More options for interactive work in pairs and groups *Additional open-ended communicative tasks for both speaking and writing *Expanded error analysis exerci