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Contents

Welcome to Focus on Grammar xi

Tour of a Unit and Myfocusongrammarlab Tour xv

Scope and Sequence xv

Getting Started xxvii

P A R T I Be: Present and Past

UnIT 1 Present of Be: Statements 2

UnIT 2 Present of Be: Yes / No Questions and Wh- Questions 13

UnIT 3 Past of Be: Statements, Yes / No Questions, Wh- Questions 25

From Grammar to Writing 36

P A R T I I nouns, Adjectives, Prepositions

UnIT 4 Count nouns and Proper nouns 40

UnIT 5 Descriptive Adjectives 51

UnIT 6 Prepositions of Place 60

From Grammar to Writing 70

P A R T I I I Imperatives and the Simple Present

UnIT 7 Imperatives; Suggestions with Let’s, Why don’t we 72

UnIT 8 Simple Present: Affirmative and negative Statements 81

UnIT 9 Simple Present: Yes / No Questions and Short Answers 91

UnIT 10 Simple Present: Wh- Questions 102

From Grammar to Writing 114

P A R T I V There Is / There Are; Possessives; Modals: Ability and Permission

UnIT 11 There is / There are 116

UnIT 12 Possessives: nouns, Adjectives, Pronouns, Object Pronouns, 130

Questions with Whose

UnIT 13 Ability: Can or Could 143

UnIT 14 Permission: Can or May 153

From Grammar to Writing 163

P A R T V Present Progressive

UnIT 15 Present Progressive: Affirmative and negative Statements 166

UnIT 16 Present Progressive: Yes / No Questions and Wh- Questions 174

UnIT 17 Simple Present and Present Progressive; non-Action Verbs 185

From Grammar to Writing 195

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P A R T V I Simple Past

UnIT 18 Simple Past: Affirmative and negative Statements with Regular Verbs 198

UnIT 19 Simple Past: Affirmative and negative Statements with Irregular Verbs 204

UnIT 20 Simple Past: Yes / No Questions and Wh- Questions 219

From Grammar to Writing 231

P A R T V I I Verb Review and Contrast and Expansion

UnIT 21 Simple Past Review 234

UnIT 22 Gerunds and Infinitives 248

UnIT 23 Simple Present, Present Progressive, and Simple Past 258

From Grammar to Writing 268

P A R T V I I I The Future

UnIT 24 Be Going to for the Future 270

UnIT 25 Will for the Future; Future Time Markers 283

UnIT 26 May or Might for Possibility 294

From Grammar to Writing 304

P A R T I x Count / non-Count nouns, Much / Many, Quantifiers

UnIT 27 Count and non-Count nouns, Quantifiers, Articles 308

UnIT 28 How much / How many, Quantifiers, Enough, Adverbs of Frequency 321

UnIT 29 Too Much / Too Many, Too + Adjective 334

From Grammar to Writing 344

P A R T x Modals: Requests, Advice, necessity

UnIT 30 Advice: Should, Ought to, Had Better 348

UnIT 31 Requests, Desires, and Offers: Would you please, I’d like, Would you like 360

UnIT 32 necessity: Have to, Don’t Have to, Must, Mustn’t 370

From Grammar to Writing 382

P A R T x I Comparisons

UnIT 33 The Comparative 386

UnIT 34 Adverbs of Manner 399

UnIT 35 Enough, Too / Very, As + Adjective + As, Same / Different 408

UnIT 36 The Superlative 421

From Grammar to Writing 433

Appendices A-1

Glossary of Grammar Terms G-1

Unit Review Answer Key UR-1

Credits C-1

Index i-1

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