Table of Contents

Preface

1 The sentence
Noun phrases
Verb phrases
Modifiers

2 The verb phrase

3 The verb
Linking verbs
Irregular verbs
Tenses

4 The progressive tenses
The present progressive
The past progressive
The future progressive

5. The perfect tenses
The present perfect
The past perfect
The future perfect

6 Modal auxiliaries
Shades of meaning
Special auxiliaries

7 The progressive forms of modal auxiliaries

8 The auxiliary do
Using do in questions
Using do in negative sentences

9 The passive voice
Using the passive

10 The passive form of modal auxiliaries
The future tense
The past tense

11 The stative passive
Adjectives and participles
The progressive form vs. the stative passive
Prepositions

12 Past participles with get

13 Participal adjectives
Present participles
Past participles

14 Subject-verb agreement
Third-person singular and plural
The verb be
Expressions of quantity
Collective nouns
Auxiliary verbs
Complex sentences

15 Agreement with nouns
Personal pronouns and collective nouns
Indefinite pronouns
Complex nouns

16 Using other
Adjectives Pronouns

17 Gerunds
Distinguishing gerunds from present participles
The possessive

18 Conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions
Conjunctions and their meaning
Correlative conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions
Adverbs that act as conjunctions

19 Prepositions
Compound prepositions
Noun and pronoun objects
More than one prepositional phrase

20 Adjectives and adverbs
Adjectives
Adverbs

21 Filler subjects and impersonal subjects
Filler subjects
Impersonal subjects

22 Clauses
Independent clauses
Dependent clauses
Relative clauses

23 Punctuation
The period
The comma
The semicolon
The colon
The question mark
The exclamation point
The apostrophe
Quotation marks
The hyphen and the dash
Parentheses and brackets

24 Capitalization, numbers, and italics
Capitalization
Numbers
Italics

Appendix: Review exercises
Answer key

McGraw-Hill Language Lab app:
240 Progress Checks and Review Quizzes (unique to app)

About the Author

Robin Torres-Gouzerh is a project manager for the department of Extended Education at the University of Texas in Austin and is the author of a number of ESL manuals.