CEF level: B1-B2.

Includes index.

PART 1 The Present and Past

Unit 1 First Impressions
Grammar: Simple Present and Present Progressive
Topics: Simple Present vs. Present Progressive -- Stative Verbs -- Special Meanings and Uses of Simple Present
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering the simple present with stative verbs; avoiding the base form of the verb when using the present progressive

Unit 2 Global Marketing
Grammar: Simple Past and Past Progressive; Use To, Would
Topics: Simple Past vs Past Progressive (p.18) Time Clauses with Simple Past and Past Progressive (p.20) Use To and Would (p.24)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering the base form of the verb after would and use to; remembering the simple past for specific events in the past; remembering the past progressive for background information

PART 2 The Perfect

Unit 3 Success
Grammar: Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive
Topics: Present Perfect (p.30) Present Perfect vs. Simple Past (p.34) Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Progressive (p.37) Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering correct subject-verb agreement with present perfect; remembering been for the present perfect progressive

Unit 4 Nature vs. Nurture
Grammar: Past Perfect and Past Perfect Progressive
Topics: Past Perfect (p.44) Past Perfect with Time Clauses (p.49) Past Perfect Progressive (p.52) Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering when to use the past perfect or past perfect progressive

PART 3 The Future

Unit 5 Looking Ahead of Technology
Grammar: Be Going To, Present Progressive, and Future Progressive
Topics: Be Going To, Present Progressive, and Simple Present for Future (p.58) Will and Be Going To (p.61) Future Progressive (p.64) Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering be with be going to; remembering when to use the future progressive, the simple present, or the present progressive

Unit 6 Business Practices of the Future
Grammar: Future Time Clauses, Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive Topics: Future Time Clauses (p.70) Future Perfect vs. Future Perfect Progressive (p.75)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding the future form in the time clause, remembering will with the future perfect

PART 4 Modals and Modal-like Expressions

Unit 7 Learning How to Remember
Grammar: Social Modals
Topics: Modals and Modal-like Expressions of Advice and Regret (p.82) Modals and Modal-like Expressions of Permission, Necessity, and Obligation (p.85) Modals and Modal-like Expressions of Ability (p.90)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering have + the past participle after a modal; remembering be in be allowed to and be supposed to

Unit 8 Computers and Crime
Grammar: Modals of Probability: Present, Future and Past
Topics: Modals of Present Probability (p.96) Modals of Future Probability (p.98) Modals of Past Probability
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding must with future probabilities; remembering be + verb + -ing with the progressive with modals

PART 5 Nouns and Pronouns

Unit 9 Attitudes Toward Nutrition
Grammar: Nouns and Modifying Nouns
Topics: Nouns (p.108) Noncount Nouns as Count Nouns (p.112) Modifying Nouns (p.116)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding plural nouncount nouns; remembering plural forms for count nouns

Unit 10 Color
Grammar: Articles and Quantifiers
Topics: Indefinite Article, Definite Article, and No Article (p.122) Quantifiers (p.125)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding much with plural nouns; remembering articles before singular occupations

Unit 11 Unusual Work Environment
Grammar: Pronouns
Topics: Reflexive Pronouns (p.134) Pronouns with Other / Another (p.137) Indefinite Pronouns (p.140)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to form reflexive pronouns with object pronouns; remembering to use singular verb forms with indefinite pronouns

PART 6 Gerunds and Infinitives

Unit 12 Getting an Education
Grammar: Gerunds
Topics: Gerunds as Subjects and Objects (p.146) Gerunds After Prepositions and Fixed Expressions (p.149) Gerunds After Nouns + of (p.153)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to use a gerund after a preposition; remembering to use a singular verb with a gerund subject

Unit 13 Innovative Marketing Techniques
Grammar: Infinitives
Topics: Infinitives with Verbs (p.158) Infinitives vs. Gerunds (p.161) Infinitives After Adjectives and Nouns (p.164)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding verb + that clauses after want; remembering correct word order with a negative form of an infinitive

PART 7 Questions and Noun Clauses

Unit 14 Geographic Mobility
Grammar: Negative Questions and Tag Questions
Topics: Negative Questions (p.170) Tag Questions (p.172)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering the auxiliary verb + not in negative questions; remembering an verb + a pronoun in tag questions

Unit 15 Cultural Values
Grammar: That Clauses
Topics: That Clauses (p.180) Agreement Between That Clauses and Main Clauses (p.183) That Clauses After Adjectives and Nouns (p.185)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding a comma before a that clause; remembering a complete verb in that clauses; remembering a subject in that clauses

Unit 16 Inventions They Said Would Never Work
Grammar: Noun clauses with Wh- Words and If / Whether
Topics: Noun Clauses with Wh- Words (p.192) Noun Clauses with If / Whether (p.194) Noun Clauses in Direct and Indirect Questions (p.197)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to use statement word order for a noun clause with a wh- word; avoiding using either instead of whether

PART 8 Indirect Speech

Unit 17 Human Motivation
Grammar: Direct Speech and Indirect Speech
Topics: Direct Speech (p.202) Indirect Speech (p.205) Indirect Speech Without Tense Shift (p.208) Other Reporting Verbs (p.210)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to change the form of the verb in indirect speech; remembering quotation marks with direct speech

Unit 18 Creative Problem Solving
Grammar: Indirect Questions; Indirect Imperatives, Requests, and Advice
Topics: Indirect Questions (p.216) Indirect Imperatives, Requests and Advice (p.218)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to use infinitives in indirect imperatives; remembering to use an object pronoun or noun after tell

PART 9 The Passive

Unit 19 English as a Global Language
Grammar: The Passive (1)
Topics: Active vs. Passive Sentences (p.224) Verbs and Objects with the Passive (p.228) Reasons for Using the Passive (p.230)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering a form of be in passive sentences; remembering to put be before the subject in questions

Unit 20 Food Safety
Grammar: The Passive (2) Topics: The Passive with Be Going To and Modals (p.236) Get Passives (p.239) Passive Gerunds and Infinitives (p.242)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding the base form of the verb after be in passive sentences

PART 10 Relative Clauses (Adjective Clauses)

Unit 21 Alternative Energy Sources
Grammar: Subject Relative Clauses (Adjective Clauses with Subject Relative Pronouns)
Topics: Identifying Subject Relative Clauses (p.248) Nonidentifying Subject Relative Clauses (p.251) Subject Relative Clauses with Whose (p.254)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Using which, that, and who correctly; avoiding a second subject in the relative clause

Unit 22 Biometrics
Grammar: Object Relative Clauses (Adjective Clauses with Object Relative Pronouns)
Topics: Identifying Object Relative Clauses (p.260) Nonidentifying Object Relative Clauses (p.263) Object Relative Clauses as Objects of Prepositions (p.264)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding commas for an identifying object relative clause; avoiding what in relative clauses

Unit 23 Millenials
Grammar: Relative Clauses with Where and When; Reduced Relative Clauses
Topics: Relative Clauses with Where and When (p.270) Reduced Relative Clauses (p.274)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding a prepositions before when; remembering a subject in where clauses

PART 11 Conditionals

Unit 24 Media in the United States
Grammar: Real Conditionals: Present and Future
Topics: Present Real Conditions (p.282) Future Real Conditionals (p.285) Real Conditionals with Modals, Modal-like Expressions, and Imperatives (p.288)
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering the simple present in if clauses in future real conditionals; avoiding when to describe possible future conditions

Unit 25 Natural Disasters
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PART 12 Connecting Ideas

Unit 26 Globalization of Food
Grammar:
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Unit 27 Consumerism
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Unit 28 Technology in Entertainment
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APPENDICES
1. Irregular Verbs -- 2. Stative (Non-Action) Verbs -- 3. Modals and Modal-like Expressions -- 4. Noncount Nouns and Measurement Words to Make Nouncount Nouns Countable -- 5. Order of Adjectives Before Nouns -- 6. Verbs That Can Be Used Reflexively -- 7. Verbs Followed by Gerunds Only -- 8. Verbs Followed by Infinitives Only -- 9. Verbs Followed by Gerunds or Infinitives -- 10. Expressions with Gerunds -- 11. Verbs + Objects + Infinitives -- 12. Be + Adjectives + Infinitives -- 13. Verbs + Prepositions -- 14. Adjectives + Prepositions -- 15. Verbs and Fixed Expressions that Introduce Indirect Questions -- 16. Tense Shifting in Indirect Speech -- 17. Reporting Verbs -- 18. Passive Forms -- 19. Relative Clauses -- 20. Conditionals

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"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)