Preface to the Fourth Edition
NOTE: 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 BE
Singular 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 HAVE
Yes/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)
Review
Chapter 3 USING THE SIMPLE PRESENT
Form 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)
Review
Chapter 4 USING THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
Be + -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)
Review
Chapter 5 TALKING ABOUT THE PRESENT
Using 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)
Review
Chapter 6 NOUNS AND PRONOUNS
Identifying 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)
Review
Chapter 7 COUNT AND NONCOUNT NOUNS
Nouns: 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)
Review
Chapter 8 EXPRESSING PAST TIME, PART 1
Be: 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 verbs
Yesterday, 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)
Review
Chapter 9 EXPRESSING PAST TIME, PART 2
Simple 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)
Review
Chapter 10 EXPRESSING FUTURE TIME, PART 1
Be 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 2
May, 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)
Review
Chapter 12 MODALS, PART 1: EXPRESSING ABILITY
Can/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)
Review
Chapter 13 MODALS, PART 2: ADVICE, NECESSITY, REQUESTS, SUGGESTIONS
Should (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)
Review
Chapter 14 NOUNS AND MODIFIERS
Nouns 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 COMPARISONS
Comparatives: -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)
Review
Appendix 1 Irregular Verbs
Appendix 2 English Handwriting
Appendix 3 Numbers
Appendix 4 Days/Months/Seasons
Appendix 5 Two-Syllable Verbs: Spelling of -ed and —ing
Index
Answer Key
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