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Present (1)

The Present of Ele: Statements (l am tall. I am not a good dancer.) The Present of Ele: Questions

(Are you OK? Yes, I am.)

The Present Progressive: Statements (She is talking. She is not sleeping.)

The Present Progressive: Questions (Are you sleeping? No, l'm not.)

Present (2)

The Simple Present: Statements (She usually drinks tea.)

The Simple Present: Questions (Do you laugh a lot? Yes, we do.) Non-Action Verbs

(l see the moon.)

Present Progressive and Simple Present (They're watching TV. / They watch TV every day.) The lmperative

(Open the door! Don't touch the plate!)

Past

The Past ot Be

(Were you there yesterday? Yes, lwas')

The Simple Past of Regular Verbs: Statements (He painted a picture YesterdaY.) , The Simple Past of lrregular Verbs:

(We saw the movie last night.) The Simple Past: Questions

(Did they come alone? Yes, theY did.) SelfTest lll

Future

The Future with Be going to (They are going to change soon.) The Future with W1II

(He will leave at 5:OO. He won't stay.) SelfTest lV

Word Order

Word Order: Statements

(They read the book to their children.) Word Order: Wh- Questions (Who did you ask? / Who asked you?) SelfTest V

Nouns, Articles, and Gluantifiers

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Nouns: Common/Proper, Singular/Plural (Harrods sells pianos from Japan.)

Nouns: Count/Non-Count

(Cream? Sugar? One teaspoon? Two teaspoons?) Articles: A/An and The

(lt's not a closet. lt's the kitchen!) No article (Al or The

(l love music. The music here is great!) Gluantifiers: Sorne and Any

(Did you buy any clothes?)

Gluantifiersz Many, Much, A few, A little, A lot of (He has a lot of things, but not much space.) There is, There are

(There's a fly in my soup!)

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Pronouns and Possessives

Pronouns: Subject and Object (He gave her a gift. She thanked him.) Possessives

(ls this Amber's book? lt isn't mine.) This, That, These, Those (This isn't my bag. That's my bag.) One, Ones

(The white ones or the black ones?) SelfTest Vll 1 0 8 1 1 0 114 1 1 8 122 126

Pnnr Vlll: Adjectives

and Adverbs

Adjectives

(The dog is nice. It's a nice dog.) Gomparisons: As...as (Ryoko is as short as Anne.) Gomparative Adiectives (He's older than me.) Superlative Adiectives

(lt's the longest noodle in the world.)

Adjectives with Very, Too, and Enough (ls it big enough? lt's too small.)

Adjectives and Adverbs

(The music is nice. They skate nicely.)

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Modals

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Ability: Can, Could

(He can run, but he can't flY.)

Suggestions= Why don't, Let's, How about (Let's go to the cafeteria.)

Requests= Will, Would, Can, Could (Could you open the door for me?) Permission= May, Can, Could (Can we swim here? No, You can't!) SelfTest lX

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Connectors

(We'lt arrive on Monday at 8:OO A.M.) Prepositions of Place

(tt's in the living room, on the table') Prepositions of Movement

(Go across the bridge. Walk along the river') TWo-Word Verbs: InseParable

(Let's dress uP and eat out.) TWo-Word Verbs: SeParable

(Turn off the alarm clock. / Turn it off')

Irregular Verbs

Common Non-Action Verbs

Common Verbs Followed by the Gerund (Base Form of Verb + -ing)

Common Verbs Followed by the Infrnitive (?o + Base Form of Verb)

Common Verbs Followed by the Gerund or the Infrnitive Some Verbs that Can Have Ttvo Objects

Some Common Trwo-Word Verbs

Some Common Nouns with Irregular Plural Forms Some Common Non-Count Nouns

Proper Nouns

Irregular Comparisons of Adjectives and Quantifrers Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers

Some Common Measure Words

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Gerunds and lnfinitives

Gerunds and Infinitives

(She enjoys exercising. / She wants to exercise') Infinitives of PurPose

0 use it to send e-mail') SelfTest Xl

Prepositions,

TWo-Word Verbs'

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[EFl Sentence Gonnectors= and, but, or, so, because fb1lEl fge buys the paper because he likes the cartoons')

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ices

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Glossary

Index

Ansurer Key

Some Common Abbreviations Some Common Prepositions Contractions with Verb Forms

Spelling Rules for Base Form of Verb + -ing (Present Progressive and Gerund)

Spelling Rules for the Simple Present: Third-Person Singular (he, she, it)

Spelling Rules for the Simple Past of Regular Verbs Spelling Rules for Regular Plural Nouns

Spelling Rules for the Comparative (-er) and Superlative (-est) of Adjectives

Speliing Rules for Adverbs Ending in -ly Some Capitalization and Punctuation Rules Pronunciation Table

Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Present: Third-Person Singular (he, she, it)

Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Past of Regular Verbs Pronunciation Rules for Regular Plural Nouns

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