Communicate What You Mean

Now in its second edition, this book helps English learners gain an excellent foundation in English grammar through numerous exercises and discussion topics.Uses discussion topics such as pollution, politics, and cultural differences to present grammar structures and oral and written exercises.For advanced ESL learners.

Preface

vii

PART 1: TENSE REVIEW

1

(47)

Lesson One

Present Time

2

(2)

Non-Continuous Verbs

4

(3)

Past Time to Present Time

7

(4)

Past Time

11

(4)

Future Time

15

(4)

Adverbial Time Expressions

19

(8)

Lesson Two

Past Perfect

27

(4)

Past-Perfect Continuous

31

(5)

Lesson Three

Future Continuous

36

(3)

Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous

39

(9)

Practice Exam

45

(3)

PART 2: COORDINATION

48

(30)

Lesson Four

Coordinating Conjunctions and Parallel Structure

48

(3)

Connecting Complete Sentences

51

(3)

Connecting More Than Two Sentences

54

(2)

Lesson Five

Correlative Conjunctions: Either ... Or

56

(3)

Correlative Conjunctions: Neither ... Nor

59

(2)

Correlative Conjunctions: Not Only ... but Also

61

(3)

Correlative Conjunctions: Both ... And

64

(4)

Lesson Six

Conjunctive Adverbs

68

(5)

Position and Punctuation of Conjunctive Adverbs

73

(5)

Practice Exam

75

(3)

PART 3: INDIRECT SPEECH

78

(22)

Lesson Seven

Basics of Indirect Speech

79

(5)

Reporting Statements

84

(1)

Reporting Questions and Answers

85

(6)

Reporting Commands and Requests

91

(5)

Reporting Exclamations

96

(4)

Practice Exam

99

(1)

PART 4: SUBORDINATION

100

(77)

Lesson Eight

Adverb Clauses

101

(12)

Sequence of Tenses

113

(6)

Building Sentences with Adverb Clauses

119

Reduction of Adverb Clauses

112

(16)

Practice Exam

125

(3)

Lesson Nine

Adjective Clauses

128

(4)

Necessary vs. Unnecessary Adjective Clauses

132

(5)

Grammatical Functions of Relative Pronouns

137

(9)

Unnecessary Adjective Clauses That Refer to Complete Sentences

146

(3)

Reduction of Adjective Clauses

149

(6)

Practice Exam

154

(1)

Lesson Ten

Noun Clauses

155

(11)

-Ever Words in Noun Clauses

166

(3)

Noun Clauses Beginning with That

169

(1)

Subjunctive From of the Verb in Noun Clauses

170

(7)

Practice Exam

175

(2)

PART 5: PASSIVE VOICE

177

(15)

Lesson Eleven

Forming the Passive

178

(4)

Using the Passive

182

(2)

Indirect Objects and Direct Objects as Passive Subjects

184

(8)

Practice Exam

191

(1)

PART 6: MODEL AUXILIARIES

192

(34)

Lesson Twelve

Advisability vs. Necessity

193

(4)

Past Regrets and Criticisms: Should, Ought To

197

(3)

Logical Conclusion vs. Expectation

200

(8)

Suggestions: Could

208

(2)

Possibilities: May, Might, Could

210

(5)

Negative Possibilities and Impossibilities

215

(3)

Degrees of Certainty

218

(8)

Practice Exam

221

(5)

PART 7: CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

226

(17)

Lesson Thirteen

Future Real vs. Present/Future Unreal

227

(5)

Past Unreal

232

(4)

Replacing If

236

(2)

Mixed Conditional Sentences

238

(5)

Practice Exam

240

(3)

PART 8: VERBALS

243

(54)

Lesson Fourteen

Simple Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases

243

(3)

Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase Functioning as Subject and Subject Complement

246

(4)

Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase Functioning as Direct Object

250

(8)

Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase Functioning as Adjective and Adjective Complement

258

(2)

Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase Functioning as Adverb

260

(2)

Reduction with Infinitive Phrases

262

(4)

Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase Functioning with Enough and Too

266

(7)

Practice Exam

270

(3)

Lesson Fifteen

Gerunds

273

(2)

Gerund/Gerund Phrase Functioning as Subject and Subject Complement

275

(2)

Gerund/Gerund Phrase Functioning as Direct Object

277

(3)

Gerund as Direct Object vs. Infinitive as Direct Object

280

(8)

Gerund/Gerund Phrase Functioning as Object of a Preposition

288

(9)

Practice Exam

294

(3)

Appendix 1: Irregular Verbs

297

(3)

Appendix 2: Modal Auxiliaries

300

(2)

Appendix 3: Verbs Followed by Infinitives

302

(3)

Appendix 4: Verbs Followed by Gerunds

305

(1)

Appendix 5: Verbs Followed by Gerunds or Infinitives

306

(1)

Index

307

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