PART I: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
UNIT 1 Present and Future Time
Travel magazine article about learning how to bargain:
It's a Bargain
UNIT 2 Past Time
Social science magazine article about an unusual marriage:
A Marriage Made on the Internet?
UNIT 3 Simple and Progressive: Action and Non-action Verbs
Magazine article about the effects of technology:
What is Technology Doing to Us?
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
The Sentence
REVIEW TEST
PART II: MODALS AND OTHER AUXILIARIES UNIT 4 Be and Auxiliaries in Additions, Tags, and Short Answers
Psychology magazine article about birth order:
Does It Matter When You Were Born?
UNIT 5 Modals to Express Degrees of Necessity
Travel magazine article about cultural differences:
What We Should and Shouldn't Have Done
UNIT 6 Modals to Express Degrees of Certainty
History magazine article about the discovery of America:
Who Really Discovered America?
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Topic Sentences
REVIEW TEST
PART III: NOUNS UNIT 7 Count and Non-Count Nouns
Transcript of a TV presentation by a food and nutrition expert:
Concerned About Food? Ask the Expert
UNIT 8 Definite and Indefinite Articles
Science magazine article about an environmental disaster:
The Real Mystery of Easter Island
UNIT 9 Quantifiers
History magazine article about money:
What's Happening to Cash?
UNIT 10 Modification of Nouns
Magazine article about expectations:
The Expectation Syndrome: I Hope for It, but I Don't Expect It
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Agreement
REVIEW TEST
PART IV: ADJECTIVE CLAUSES UNIT 11 Adjective Clauses: Review and Expansion
Psychology magazine article about personality types:
What Type Are You?
UNIT 12 Adjective Clauses with Prepositions; Adjective Phrases
Movie review:
Hobbits and Other Creatures
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Punctuation of Adjective Clauses and Phrases
REVIEW TEST
PART V: PASSIVE VOICE UNIT 13 The Passive: Review and Expansion
Newspaper article about an unsolved mystery:
Did He Get Away with It?
UNIT 14 The Passive to Describe Situations and to Report Opinions
Social science article about an unusual group of people and their favorite
animals:
Sacred Beasts
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Parallelism
REVIEW TEST
PART VI: GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES UNIT 15 Gerunds
Psychology magazine article about types of friends:
Friends
UNIT 16 Infinitives
Magazine article about procrastination:
Seize the Day
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Parallelism of Gerunds and Infinitives
REVIEW TEST
PART VII: ADVERBS UNIT 17 Adverbs: Functions, Types, Placement, and Meaning
Transcript of a radio call-in show about military service:
Time to Sound Off
UNIT 18 Adverb Clauses
Newspaper editorial about sports:
Are Sports Still Sporting?
UNIT 19 Adverb and Adverbial Phrases
News magazine article about compassion:
Compassion
UNIT 20 Connectors
Psychology magazine article about memory:
Try to Remember
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Sentences and Fragments
REVIEW TEST
PART VIII: NOUN CLAUSES UNIT 21 Noun Clauses: Subjects, Objects, and Complements
Humorous storyabout brothers competing for their mother's love:
The Three Brothers
UNIT 22 Direct and Indirect Speech
Journalism textbook article about the accuracy of news reporting:
Is News Reporting Accurate?
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING:
Writing Direct and Indirect Speech
REVIEW TEST
PART IX: CONDITIONALS AND THE SUBJUNCTIVE UNIT 23 Conditionals; Other Ways to Express Unreality
Story from psychology magazine about trusting intuition:
Intuition
UNIT 24 More Conditions; the Subjunctive
Social science magazine article about aging:
Those Happy Golden Years?
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Avoiding Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices
REVIEW TEST
APPENDICES
- Irregular Verbs
- Common Non-Action Verbs
- Non-Action Verbs Sometimes Used in the Progressive
- Irregular Noun Plurals
- Common Non-Count Nouns
- Common Ways of Making Non-Count Nouns Countable
- Nouns Often Used with the Definite Article
- Countries Whose Names Contain the Definite Article
- Selected Geographical Features Whose Names Contain the Definite Article
- Verbs Used in the Passive Followed by a That Clause
- Common Stative Passive Verbs + Prepositions
- Common Verbs Followed by the Gerund
- Common Adjective + Preposition Combinations
- Common Verbs Followed by the Infinitive
- Verbs Followed by the Gerund or Infinitive Without a Significant Change in Meaning
- Verbs Followed by the Gerund or the Infinitive With a Significant Change in Meaning
- Verbs Followed by Noun / Pronoun + Infinitive
- Common Adjectives Followed by the Infinitive
- Common Sentence Adverbs
- Words That Begin Dependent Clauses
- Transitions: Sentence Connectors
- Transitions: Blocks of Text
- Reporting Verbs
- Verbs and Expressions Followed by the Subjunctive (Base Form)
GRAMMAR GLOSSARY
REVIEW TEST ANSWER KEY
INDEX