Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Connecting learners to structure through academic content, Grammar Connection teaches the authentic language skills learners need for academic and professional success.
Discourse-based grammar presentation through readings and conversations offers natural language instructions and prepares learners for academic success.
Authentic contexts from academic disciplines essential background for grammar presentation and practice.
Concise lessons with clear grammar charts create an easy-to-follow learning framework.
High-frequency academic vocabulary is systematically developed in Content Vocabulary sections.
Multi-skills practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking stimulates the skills learners need in academic contexts.
Connection: Putting It Together synthesizes grammar, vocabulary, and content through communicative activities. Review and Learner Logs summarize language instruction and enhance learner independence." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

A Word from the Series Editors

Guided Tour

Acknowledgments

LESSON 1 Business Administration: Developing a Business Plan
Present Time: Contrasting Present and Past -- Present Time: Shifting to Future

LESSON 2 History: Jamestown 1607-2007
Past Time: Simple Past and Past Perfect -- Past Time: Shifting to Present

LESSON 3 Food Sciences: Biotech Crops
Future Time -- Review of Progressive Aspect

LESSON 4 Journalism: Sources of the News
Review of Verb Types -- Verbs with Indirect Objects

LESSON 5 History and Musicology: The Silk Road
Articles to Express a Generic Reference -- The for Unique Reference: Definite Reference

LESSON 6 Linguistics: Spelling, Codes, and Alphabets
Academic Phrasal Modal Verbs -- Modal Verb Review: Troubleshooting

Review Lessons 1-5

LESSON 7 Social Psychology: Experiments
Modal Verbs: Past Logical Scale -- Modal Verbs: Other Perfect Meanings

LESSON 8 Economics: Microfinance
Quantifiers with Of -- Subject-Verb Agreement

LESSON 9 Criminal Science: Juvenile Court
Gerunds and Infinitives as Subjects -- Gerunds and Infinitives as Subject Complements; Gerunds Following a Preposition

LESSON 10 Environmental Chemistry: H2O
Gerunds and Infinitives: Perfect Forms -- Gerunds and Infinitives with Phrasal Modals: Review

Review Lessons 6-10

LESSON 11 Human Resources: The Multigenerational Workplace
Review of Adverbials -- Adverbs in Sentence-Initial Position

LESSON 12 Counseling: Rites of Passage
Sequential Connectors -- Connectors of Equivalence

LESSON 13 Engineering: Emergency Preparation and Management
Connectors of Causality -- Concessive Connectors

LESSON 14 Education: Service Learning
Ellipsis -- Parallelism

LESSON 15 Public Policy and Administration: NIMBY
Fronting Negative Elements -- Correlative Conjunctions

Review Lessons 11-15

LESSON 16 Cultural Anthropology: The Gullah
Review of the Passive Voice -- Passive Options with Verbs Taking Two Objects

LESSON 17 Industrial Design: Modern Wheelchairs
Gerunds and Infinitives in the Passive Voice -- Passive Voice in Other Complex Sentences

LESSON 18 History of Philosophy of Science
Restrictive vs. Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses -- Reduced and Special Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses

LESSON 19 Marketing: Packaging Strategies
Relative Adverbial Clauses -- Noun Clauses

LESSON 20 Health Sciences: Transactural Nursing
Anaphoric References -- Prepositions: Against, Among, Between, Through, Toward

Review Lessons 16-20

LESSON 21 Physics: Golf and Tennis Balls
Participles as Adjectives -- Participles in Reduced Adverbial Clauses

LESSON 22 Film Studies: Documentaries
Complements of Sensory Verbs -- Other Verbs with Participial Complements

LESSON 23 Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence
Reported Speech in Context -- Rules for and Exceptions to Backshifts in Reported Speech

LESSON 24 Art History: Symbols and Allegories
Reported Speech: Paraphrases with Infinitives and Gerunds -- Reported Speech and Thought: Passive Forms

LESSON 25 Public Health: Vaccine and Immunization
Subjunctive Complements -- Causative Verbs

Review Lessons 21-25

LESSON 26 Biology
It Clefts -- It in Subject Position with Adjective Complements

LESSON 27 Criminal Justice: Identification Documents and Technology
Conditional Clauses: Past Counterfactuals -- Conditional Clauses: Word Order

LESSON 28 Astrobiology and Marine Sciences: Exploration
Conditionals: Conjunctions -- Conditional Sentences: Verbs + That Clauses, Mixed Conditions

LESSON 29 Sociology of Sports
Noun Complements -- Appositives

LESSON 30 Political Science: Political Parties
Logical Connectors: Contrast and Review -- Complex Sentence: Review

Review Lessons 26-30

Appendices

Vocabulary Index

Index

Credits