CEF level: A2-B1.

Includes index.

"Grammar and Beyond Essentials is a research-based and content-rich grammar series for beginning- to advanced-level students. The series focuses on the most commonly used English grammar structures and practices all four skills in a variety of authentic and communicative contexts. It is designed for use both in the classroom and as a self-study learning tool." (Introduction, p. viii)

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

PART 2 The Present

Unit 1 Are You Often Online?
Grammar: Simple Present
Topics: Simple Present -- Time Clauses and Factual Conditionals
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding amn't; remembering a comma after a time clause at the beginning of a sentence

Unit 2 Brainpower
Grammar: Present Progressive and Simple Present
Topics: Present Progressive -- Simple Present and Present Progressive Compared
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering a form of be with the present progressive; remembering -ing for the present progressive

Unit 3 What's Appropriate?
Grammar: Imperatives
Topics: Imperatives -- Let's...
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding no in imperatives; remembering an apostrophe in don't and let's

PART 2 The Past

Unit 4 Entrepreneurs
Grammar: Simple Past
Topics: Simple Past -- Simple Past of Be and There Was / There Were
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding the past form after did not and didn't; avoiding putting a time expression between the subject and the verb

Unit 5 Science and Society Grammar: Simple Past, Time Clauses, Used To, and Would
Topics: Time Clauses and the Order of Past Events -- Past with Used To and Would
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering a subject in time clauses; remembering the -d in used to for affirmative statements

Unit 6 Memorable Events Grammar: Past Progressive
Topics: Past Progressive -- Using When and While with Past Progressive
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding a time clause as a complete sentence; remembering a comma when the time clause comes first in a sentence

PART 3 Nouns, Determiners, and Pronouns

Unit 7 Privacy Matters
Grammar: Count and Noncount Nouns
Topics: Count and Noncount Nouns -- Noncount Nouns: Determiners and Measurement Words
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering a determiner with a singular count noun; avoiding a/an with a noncount noun; avoiding plural noncount nouns

Unit 8 The Media Grammar: Articles Topics: Articles -- Generalizing: More About Articles
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering a/an the first time you mention a new idea; avoiding the with generalization

Unit 9 Challenging Ourselves Grammar: Pronouns; Direct and Indirect Objects Topics: Pronouns -- Direct and Indirect Objects Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to or for with certain verbs; avoiding double pronouns

PART 4 The Present Perfect

Unit 10 Discoveries Grammar: Present Perfect Topics: Present Perfect -- Present Perfect Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to or for with certain verbs; avoiding double pronouns

Unit 11 Unsolved Mysteries Grammar: Adverbs with Present Perfect, For and Since
Topics: Adverbs with Present Perfect -- Present Perfect with For and Since
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding never in negative statements; avoiding ever in affirmative statements

Unit 12 Cities Grammar: Present Perfect Progressive
Topics: Present Perfect Progressive -- Present Perfect Progressive or Present Perfect?
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering have with the present perfect progressive; avoiding the present progressive with for and since

PART 5 Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions

Unit 13 A Good Workplace Grammar: Adjectives
Topics: Adjectives -- More About Adjectives
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding mispelling adjectives ending in -ful; remembering to put opinion adjectives first

Unit 14 Learn Quickly! Grammar: Adverbs of Manner and Degree
Topics: Adverbs of Manner -- Adverbs of Degree
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to use adverbs to describe how something happened, avoiding putting an adverb between the verb and the object; remembering that some adverbs have the same form as adjectives

Unit 15 Food on the Table Grammar: Prepositions
Topics: Prepositions of Place and Time -- Prepositions of Direction and Manner -- Phrasal Prepositions and Prepositions After Adjectives
Avoid Common Mistakes: Using prepositions correctly

PART 6 The Future

Unit 16 Life Lists Grammar: Future (1)
Topics: Be Going To, Present Progressive, and Simple Present for Future Events
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering be with going to, remembering Be before the subject wh- questions with be going to

Unit 17 Getting Older Grammar: Future (2)
Topics: Future with Will -- Future with Will, Be Going To, and Present Progressive
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering will before the main verb with the future, remembering the base form of the verb after will

Unit 18 Learning to Communicate Grammar: Future Time Clauses and Future Conditionals
Topics: Future Time Clauses -- Future Conditionals -- Questions with Time Clauses and Conditional Clauses
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding will in the conditional clause; avoiding will in the time clause

PART 7 Modal Verbs and Modal-like Expressions

Unit 19 Amazing Science Grammar: Ability
Topics: Ability with Can and Could -- Be Able To
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to spell cannot as one word; remembering the be and to in be able to

Unit 20 Good Cause Grammar: Requests and Offers
Topics: Permission -- Requests and Offers
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding could in short answers to request for permission; avoiding could or would in responses to requests to do things

Unit 21 The Right Job Grammar: Advice and Suggestions
Topics: Advice -- Suggestions
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering had in had better; avoiding could not in negative suggestions

Unit 22 How to Sell It Grammar: Necessity, Prohibition and Preference
Topics: Necessity and Prohibition -- Preference
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding an infinitive with would rather, remembering would before rather

Unit 23 Life Today, Life Tomorrow Grammar: Present and Future Probability
Topics: Present Probability -- Modals of Future Probability
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding Can for present or future probability; avoiding could't for uncertainty

PART 8 Verbs + Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs Grammar: Adverbs of Manner and Degree
Topics: Adverbs of Manner -- Adverbs of Degree
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to use adverbs to describe how something happened; avoiding putting an adverb between the verb and the object, remembering that some adverbs have the same form as objectives

Unit 24 Getting Along at Work Grammar: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs, Verbs and Prepositions
Topics: Transitive and Intransitive Verbs -- Verb + Object + Preposition Combinations -- Verb + Preposition Combinations
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering the object with a transitive verb; using prepositions with verbs

Unit 25 Money, Money, Money Grammar: Phrasal Verbs
Topics: Intransitive Phrasal Verbs -- Transitive Phrasal Verbs
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering a particle in phrasal verbs; avoiding putting an object pronoun after a particle

PART 9 Comparative and Superlatives

Unit 26 We Are All Different Grammar: Comparatives
Topics: Comparative Adjectives and Adverbs -- Comparisons with As...As
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding using more and -er together; remembering the second as in as...as comparisons

Unit 27 The Best and the Worst Grammar: Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs

Topics: Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering irregular superlative forms; avoiding an object pronoun before a superlative

PART 10 Gerunds and Infinitives

Unit 28 Managing Time Grammar: Gerund and Infinitives (1)
Topics: Verbs Followed by Gerunds or Infinitives -- Verbs Followed by Gerunds and Infinitives

Avoid Common Mistakes: Using infinitives and gerunds after verbs, remembering to in infinitives

Unit 29 Civil Rights Grammar: Gerunds and Infinitives (2)

Topics: More About Gerunds -- More About Infinitives
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding plural verbs with gerund subjects; avoiding infinitives after prepositions; remembering It and To in It sentences

PART 11 Clauses and Conjunctions

Unit 30 Sleep Grammar: Subject Relative Clauses (Adjective Clauses with Subject Relative Pronouns)
Topics: Subject Relative Clauses -- More About Subject Relative Clauses
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding a subject pronoun after a subject relative pronoun; remembering the relative pronoun in a subject relative clause

Unit 31 Viruses Grammar: Object Relative Clauses (Adjective Clauses with Object Relative Pronouns)
Topics: Object Relative Clauses -- More About Object Relative Clauses
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding Who in possessives; avoiding Whom in subject relative clauses; avoiding an object pronoun at the end of an object relative clause

Unit 32 Special Days Grammar: Conjunctions and Adverb Clauses
Topics: Conjunctions -- Adverb Clauses
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering a coma after the adverb clause when it is first