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Summary
Summary
Appropriate for low beginning level ESL courses, the first volume in the theme-based Grammar Links series offers a communicative approach with a traditional focus on form. The text offers clear, accurate, and comprehensive grammar reference material, useful to students throughout life; a strong emphasis on the pragmatics of formal versus informal language; and ample contexualized, four-skills practice.Grammar Briefings cover the structure of the English language as well as functions and meanings.Talking the Talk boxes address pragmatic concerns about grammatical choices in written and spoken English, such as levels of formality, slang, and metaphorical usage.Grammar Hotspot boxes alert students to predictable grammar problems and explain how to avoid them.
Table of Contents
| I Present Tense of Be |
| 1 New People, New Places: Statements with Be |
| 2 Getting the Facts |
| Questions with Be |
| II Nouns, Articles, and Adjectives |
| Demonstratives, Possessives, and Conjunctions |
| 3 Every Family Is Different: Count Nouns, Articles, and Adjectives |
| 4 Families and Their Activities |
| Demonstratives, Possessives, and Conjunctions |
| III Present Progressive Tense |
| 5 The Olympic Games |
| The Present Progressive Tense |
| Affirmative and Negative Statements in the Present Progressive Tense |
| 6 Academic Goals |
| The Present Progressive Tense--Yes/Noand Wh-Questions |
| IV Simple Present Tense |
| 7 Native American Celebrations |
| Simple Present Tense--Affirmative and Negative Statements |
| 8 Regional Celebrations |
| Simple Present Tense--Yes/NoQuestions and Wh-Questions |
| 9 Ethnic Celebrations |
| Simple Present Tense and Present Progressive Tense |
| Non-Action Verbs |
| V Prepositions;There+Be |
| 10 Some Unusual Houses |
| Prepositions |
| 11 City Life: There+Be |
| VI Simple Past Tense |
| 12 Some American Inventors: The Past Tense of Be |
| 13 Unusual Inventors |
| The Simple Past Tense--Affirmative and Negative Statements |
| 14 From Saving Lives to Just Having Fun |
| The Simple Past Tense:Yes/Noand Wh-Questions |
| VII More about Nouns and Pronouns; Numbers; Quantifiers |
| 15 Money and Treasure: Count and Noncount Nouns; Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers |
| 16 Gold!: Quantifiers and Measure Words |
| 17 The Good, the Bad, and Their Money: Subjects and Objects; Pronouns |
| VIII Expressing Future Time |
| 18 Yellowstone National Park, Summer to Fall: Expressing the Future Time with Be Going To;the Present Progressive Tense with Future Meaning |
| 19 Olympic National Park, Winter to Spring: Expressing Future Time with Will |
| IX Modals; Imperatives |
| 20 Job Skills and Requirements |
| Form and Function of Modals |
| Canand Couldfor Ability |
| MayandMightfor Possibility |
| 21 Getting Started in Business |
| Shouldfor Advice |
| Must and Have To for Necessity |
| 22 Communicating on the Job |
| Permission, Requests, and Offers |
| Imperatives and Let's |
| X Adjectives and Adverbs; Comparisons |
| 23 People in the Clothing Industry: Adjectives and Adverbs |
| 24 Clothes and Shopping |
| Expressing Similarities and Differences |
| 25 Clothes of Yesterday and Today |
| Comparatives and Superlatives |
| XI Verbs and Objects |
| Phrasal Verbs |
| 26 For the Thrill of It |
| Verbs with and without Direct Objects |
| Verbs with Indirect Objects |
| Verbs with Infinitives as Direct Objects |
| 27 Inspiring Men and Women |
| Phrasal Verbs |
| XII Past Progressive Tense |
| Time Clauses |
| Conditional Statements |
| 28 Ocean Adventures |
| Past Progressive Tense |
| Past Time Clauses |
| 29 Undersea Life |
| Future Time Clauses |
| Conditional Statements |
