Basic English Grammar is a classic developmental skills text for beginning students of English as a second or foreign language. It uses a grammar-based approach integrated with communicative methodologies to prmote the development of all language skills.While keeping the same basic approach and materials as in earlier edtions, the fourth edition continues to build on the foundation of understanding form and meaning by engaging students in meaningful communication about real actions, real things, and their own lives in classroom context.Several of the new features are: Information in the grammar charts highlighting differences between spoken and written EnglishStep-by-step writing activities with models for students to followInnovative warm-up exercises that precede the grammar charts and introduce points to be taughtNewly created exercises to give students more incremental grammar practiceStructure-based listening exercises that introduce students to relaxed, reduced speech
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2014-04-14
- Mått100 x 100 x 100 mm
- Vikt100 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- Upplaga4
- FörlagPearson Education (US)
- ISBN9780132942270
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- Preface to the Fourth EditionNOTE: The titles listed below, for example, Singular pronouns + be, refer to section names, not practice titles. In general, one section has multiple exercises.The chart numbers refer to the grammar explanations in the Basic English Grammar Student Book.Chapter 1 USING BESingular pronouns + be (Chart 1-1)Plural pronouns + be (Chart 1-2)Singular nouns: a/an (Chart 1-3)Plural nouns + be (Chart 1-4)Contractions with be (Chart 1-5)Negative with be (Chart 1-6)Be + adjective (Chart 1-7)Be + a place (Chart 1-8)Summary: Basic sentence patterns with be (Chart 1-9)Chapter 2 USING BE AND HAVEYes/no questions with be (Chart 2-1)Short answers to yes/no questions (Chart 2-2)Questions with be: using where (Chart 2-3)Have and has (Chart 2-4)Possessive adjectives: my, your, her, his, our, their (Chart 2-5)This or that (Chart 2-6)These or those (Chart 2-7)Questions with what/who + be (Chart 2-8)ReviewChapter 3 USING THE SIMPLE PRESENTForm of the simple present tense (Chart 3-1)Frequency adverbs (Chart 3-2)Position of frequency adverbs (Chart 3-3)Final s/—es (Chart 3-4)Spelling of verbs ending in —y (Chart 3-5)Irregular singular verbs: has, does, goes (Chart 3-6)Want to, need to, like to (Chart 3-7)Simple present tense: negative (Chart 3-8)Yes/no questions (Chart 3-9)Questions with where and what (Chart 3-10)Questions with when and what time (Chart 3-11)ReviewChapter 4 USING THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVEBe + -ing: the present progressive (Chart 4-1)Spelling of -ing (Chart 4-2)Present progressive: negatives (Chart 4-3)Present progressive: questions (Chart 4-4)Simple present vs. the present progressive (Chart 4-5)Non-action verbs not used in the present progressive (Chart 4-6)See, look at, watch, hear, and listen to (Chart 4-7)Think about and think that (Chart 4-8)ReviewChapter 5 TALKING ABOUT THE PRESENTUsing it to talk about time and dates (Chart 5-1)Prepositions of time (Chart 5-2)Talking about the weather (Chart 5-3)There + be (Chart 5-4)There + be: yes/no questions (Chart 5-5)There + be: questions with how many (Chart 5-6)Prepositions of place (Chart 5-7)More prepositions of place: a list (Chart 5-8)Would like (Chart 5-9)Would like vs. like (Chart 5-10)ReviewChapter 6 NOUNS AND PRONOUNSIdentifying nouns: subjects, and objects (Chart 6-1)Nouns as objects of prepositions (Chart 6-2)Adjectives with nouns (Chart 6-3)Subject and object pronouns (Chart 6-4)Singular and plural nouns (Chart 6-5)Irregular singular and plural nouns (Chart 6-6)Possessive pronouns and adjectives (Chart 6-7)Possessive nouns (Chart 6-8)Whose and who’s (Chart 6-9)Regular and irregular possessive nouns (Chart 6-10)ReviewChapter 7 COUNT AND NONCOUNT NOUNSNouns: singular/plural; count/noncount (Chart 7-1)A vs. an (Chart 7-2)A/an vs. some (Chart 7-3)Units of measure with noncount nouns (Chart 7-4)Many, much, a few, a little (Chart 7-5)The: first mention vs. second mention (Chart 7-6)Using Ø (no article) to make generalizations (Chart 7-7)Some and any (Chart 7-8)ReviewChapter 8 EXPRESSING PAST TIME, PART 1Be: past forms (Chart 8-1)Simple past tense of be: negative (Chart 8-2)Past of be: questions (Chart 8-3)Simple past tense: —ed (Chart 8-4)Spelling Rules: —ed verbsYesterday, last, and ago (Chart 8-5)Irregular verbs: Group 1 (Chart 8-6)Simple past tense: negative (Chart 8-7)Simple past tense: yes/no questions (Chart 8-8)Irregular verbs: Group 2 (Chart 8-9)Irregular verbs: Group 3 (Chart 8-10)Irregular verbs: Group 4 (Chart 8-11)ReviewChapter 9 EXPRESSING PAST TIME, PART 2Simple past tense: where, why, when, and what time (Chart 9-1)Questions with what (Chart 9-2)Questions with who (Chart 9-3)Irregular verbs: Group 5 (Chart 9-4)Irregular verbs: Group 6 (Chart 9-5)Irregular verbs: Group 7 (Chart 9-6)Before and after in time clauses (Chart 9-7)When in questions and time clauses (Chart 9-8)Past and present progressive forms (Chart 9-9)While with past progressive (Chart 9-10)Simple past tense vs. past progressive: when/while (Chart 9-11)ReviewChapter 10 EXPRESSING FUTURE TIME, PART 1Be going to (Chart 10-1)Using present progressive for future time (Chart 10-2)Yesterday, last, tomorrow, next, in, ago (Chart 10-3)A couple of or a few with ago (past) and in (future) (Chart 10-4)Today, tonight, and this + morning, afternoon, evening, week, month, year (Chart 10-5)Will (Chart 10-6)Questions with will (Chart 10-7)Verb review: present, past, and future (Chart 10-8)Verb review: forms of be (Chart 10-9)Review (Charts 10-8 and 10-9)Chapter 11 EXPRESSING FUTURE TIME, PART 2May, might, or will (Chart 11-1)Maybe vs. may be (Chart 11-2)Future time clauses with before, after, and when (Chart 11-3)Clauses with if (Chart 11-4)Habitual present (Chart 11-5)What + do (Chart 11-6)ReviewChapter 12 MODALS, PART 1: EXPRESSING ABILITYCan/can’t (Chart 12-1)Can: questions (Chart 12-3)Know how to (Chart 12-4)Could: past of can (Chart 12-5)Be able to (Chart 12-6)Very or too (Chart 12-7)ReviewChapter 13 MODALS, PART 2: ADVICE, NECESSITY, REQUESTS, SUGGESTIONSShould (Chart 13-1)Forms of have to (Chart 13-2)Must, must not, and should (Chart 13-3)Polite questions: May I, Could I, and Can I (Chart 13-4)Polite questions: Could you and Would you (Chart 13-5)Imperative sentences (Chart 13-6)Modal auxiliaries (Chart 13-7)Modal review (Chart 13-8)Using Let’s (Chart 13-9)ReviewChapter 14 NOUNS AND MODIFIERSNouns and adjectives (Chart 14-1)Word order of adjectives (Chart 14-2)Linking verbs + adjectives (Chart 14-3)Adverbs (Chart 14-4)All of, most of, some of, almost all of (Chart 14-5)Subject-verb agreement with expression of quantity (Chart 14-6)Subject-verb agreement with every and all (Chart 14-7)Indefinite pronouns: something, someone, somebody, anything, anyone, anybody (Chart 14-8)Chapter 15 MAKING COMPARISONSComparatives: -er and more (Chart 15-1)Superlatives: -est and most (Chart 15-2)One of + superlative + plural noun (Chart 15-3)Comparisons with adverbs (Chart 15-4)The same (as ), similar (to ), and different (from ) (Chart 15-5)Like and alike (Chart 15-6)Using but (Chart 15-7)Verbs after but (Chart 15-8)ReviewAppendix 1 Irregular VerbsAppendix 2 English HandwritingAppendix 3 NumbersAppendix 4 Days/Months/SeasonsAppendix 5 Two-Syllable Verbs: Spelling of -ed and —ingIndexAnswer Key