Includes index.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Present, Past, and Future Forms
Warm-Up
1.1 Useful Things to Remember about Verbs
1.2 The Simple Present
1.3 The Present Progressive
1.4 Non-Action Verbs
Usage Note : Present Progressive with "Be"
1.5 The Simple Past
1.6 The Past Progressive
1.7 Talking about the Future with "Be Going To" and "Will"
1.8 Using Present Forms to Talk about the Future
1.9 Using Present Forms in Speaking
1.10 Using Present and Past Forms in Academic Writing
Wrap-Up Demonstrate Your Knowledge
1.11 Summary of Present, Past, and Future Forms

2. Perfect Forms
Warm-Up
2.1 Overview of the Present Perfect
2.2 The Simple Past vs. the Present Perfect
Pronunciation Note : Simple Past or Present Perfect?
2.3 The Present Perfect Progressive vs. the Present Perfect
2.4 The Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Progressive
2.5 The Future Perfect and the Future Perfect Progressive
2.6 Using Perfect Forms in Speaking
2.7 Using Perfect Forms in Academic Writing
Wrap-Up Demonstrate Your Knowledge
2.8 Summary of Perfect Forms

3. Modals
Warm-Up
3.1 Overview of Simple Modals and Phrasal Modals
Usage Note: Simple Modal vs. Phrasal Modal Sentence Patterns
3.2 Willingness and Intent
3.3 Possibility with "Can" and "Could"
3.4 Degrees of Certainty about the Present and Future
3.5 Past Certainty
Usage Note: Different Uses of "Could" and "Could Have"
3.6 Advisability with "Should," "Ought to," and "Had Better"
Usage Note: Different Uses of "Should" and "Should Have"
Pronunciation Note: Modal + Have
3.7 Obligation and Prohibition
Usage Note: Other Ways to Express Obligation and Prohibition
3.8 Combining Modals
3.9 Modals with Progressive Verb Forms
3.10 Other Ways to Express Modality
3.11 Using Modals in Speaking: Modals for Social Purposes
3.12 Using Modals in Academic Writing
Wrap-Up: Demonstrate Your Knowledge
3.13 Summary of Modals

4. The Passive
Warm-Up
4.1 Comparing Active and Passive Sentences
Pronunciation Note: Sentence Rhythm
4.2 Using the Passive
4.3 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Usage Note: Understanding Linking Verbs
4.4 The Passive with Modals
4.5 Special Passive Structures
4.6 Passive Form or Be + Adjective?
4.7 Using the Passive in Speaking
4.8 Using the Passive in Academic Writing
Wrap-Up Demonstrate Your Knowledge
4.9 Summary of the Passive

5 Adverbs and Adverbials
Warm-Up
5.1 Overview of Adverbs and Adverbials
5.2 Using Adverbials to Explain When, Where, How, and Why
Usage Note: Because of vs. Because
5.3 Degree and Focusing Adverbials
Usage Note: Collocations with Degree Adverbials
Usage Note: Adverbials with Multiple Meanings
5.4 Stance Adverbials
5.5 Sentence Patterns with Linking Adverbials
5.6 Linking Adverbials That Signal a Result or Contrast
5.7 Linking Adverbials That Signal Additional Information
5.8 Linking Adverbials in Speaking and Academic Writing
Wrap-Up: Demonstrate Your Knowledge
5.10 Summary of Adverbials

6. Adverb Clauses
Warm-Up
6.1 Overview of Adverb Clauses
6.2 Adverb Clauses of Time and Reason
Usage Note: Since and As
6.3 Adverb Clauses of Contrast
Usage Note: While
Pronunciation Note: Contrasting Information
6.4 Adverb Clauses of Manner
6.5 Adverb Clauses of Purpose and Result
6.6 Reduced Adverb Clauses of Time and Contrast
6.7 Conditional Adverb Clauses (Real Conditionals)
Usage Note: Unless
6.8 Conditional Adverb Clauses (Unreal Conditionals)
Usage Note: Contrasting Real and Unreal Conditionals
Usage Note: As If and As Though
6.9 Using Adverb Clauses in Speaking
6.10 Using Adverb Clauses in Academic Writing
Wrap-Up Demonstrate Your Knowledge
6.11 Summary of Adverb Clauses

7. Nouns and Pronouns
Warm-Up
7.1 Overview of Nouns
7.2 Personal Pronouns and Possessive Determiners
Pronunciation Note: Reduced Words
Pronunciation Note: Possessive Pronouns
7.3 Indefinite Pronouns
7.4 Noun-Pronoun Agreement
7.5 It, One, Some, Any, Other, You, and They
7.6 Compound Nouns
Pronunciation Note: Compound Nouns
7.7 Forming Nouns Using Suffixes
7.8 Using This and That to Refer Back
7.9 Using Nouns and Pronouns in Speaking
7.10 Using Nouns and Pronouns in Academic Writing
Usage Note: Repeating Nouns
Wrap-Up: Demonstrate Your Knowledge
7.11 Summary of Nouns and Pronouns

8. Determiners
Warm-Up
8.1 What are Determiners?
8.2 Articles with Singular Count Nouns
8.3 Articles with Plural Count Nouns and Noncount Nouns
8.4 Articles in Generic Statements
8.5 Possessives
8.6 Quantifiers
8.7 Quantifiers with Of
8.8 Using Determiners in Speaking and Academic Writing
Wrap-Up Demonstrate Your Knowledge
8.9 Summary of Determiners

9. Nouns Phrases
Warm-Up
9.1 What are Noun Phrases?
9.2 Adding Information to a Main Noun
9.3 Adjectives
9.4 Noun + Noun
9.5 Appositives
9.6 Prepositional Phrases
9.7 Using "Of" to Show Possession
9.8 Recognizing Adjective Clauses
9.9 Subject-Verb Agreement with Long Noun Phrases
9.10 Using Noun Phrases in Speaking and Academic Writing
Language Note: Main Nouns
Wrap-Up: Demonstrate Your Knowledge
9.11 Summary of Noun Phrases

10. Adjective Clauses
Warm-Up
10.1 Overview of Adjective Clauses
10.2 Describing People and Things with Adjective Clauses
10.3 Subjects and Objects in Adjective Clauses
10.4 Adjective Clauses Describing Pronouns
10.5 Reduced Adjective Clauses
10.6 Defining and Non-defining Adjective Clauses
Usage Note: Giving Background Information
10.7 Adjective Clauses with "Whose"
10.8 Adjective Clauses with Prepositions
10.9 Using Adjective Clauses in Speaking
10.10 Using Adjective Clauses in Academic Writing
Wrap-Up: Demonstrate Your Knowledge
10.11 Summary of Adjective Clauses

11. Gerunds and To- Infinitives
Warm-Up
11.1 Overview of -ing Forms
11.2 Gerunds and Subjects; Be + Gerund
11.3 Gerunds as Objects of Verbs and Prepositions
Usage Note: Common Preposition Combinations
11.4 Passive Gerunds
11.5 Overview of To- Infinitives
11.6 To- Infinitives as Subjects; Linking Verb + To- Infinitives
11.7 To- Infinitives as Objects
11.8 Verb + Gerund or To- Infinitive
11.9 Bare Infinitives as Objects
11.10 Other Uses of To- Inifinitives
11.11 Progressive Perfect and Passive Forms of To- Infinitives
11.12 Using Gerunds and To- Infinitives in Speaking
11.13 Using Gerunds and To- Infinitives in Academic Writing
Wrap-Up Demonstrate Your Knowledge
11.14 Summary of Gerunds and To- Infinitives

12. Noun Clauses and Related Forms
Warm-Up
12.1 Overview of Noun Clauses
Usage Note: That
12.2 That Clauses as Subjects
12.3 That Clauses as Complements
12.4 That Clauses as Objects (Verb + That Clause)
12.5 Using the Base Form of a Verb in That Clauses
12.6 Wh- Noun Clauses
12.7 Noun Clauses with If or Whether
12.8 Noun Clauses in Indirect Speech
Usage Note: Changing Other Forms in Indirect Speech
12.9 Using Say, Tell, and Other Reporting Verbs
12.10 Using Noun Clauses in Speaking
12.11 Using Nouns Clauses in Academic Writing
Wrap-Up Demonstrate Your Knowledge
12.12 Summary of Noun Clauses