A practical english grammar - Vyssaja skola 1978

A practical english grammar - Vyssaja skola 1978

Preface

Sound symbols

Used in this book

Chapter 1 - The Sentence

Nouns

Some noun determiners

Exercises

Chapter 2 - Adjectives

Pronouns

The verb BE

Statements and Questions

Negation

The dummy subject THERE

Exercises

Chapter 3 - Present tense of ordinary verbs

Linking verbs

Transitive verbs with direct objects

Possessive pronouns

Exercises

Chapter 4 - Prepositions

Coordinating conjunctions

Past tense

Exercises

Chapter 5 - The progressive verb phrase

Exercises

Chapter 6 - The present perfect verb phrase

The past perfect verb phrase

Contractions of HAVE with the subject pronouns

HAVE as a full verb

Echo verbs

Tag questions

Patterns with SO, TOO, NEITHER, EITHER

Exercises

Chapter 7 - The question words

Structures that take the place of nouns

Noun clauses in indirect speech

Indirect questions

Exercises

Chapter 8 - The modals

The modal CAN

The modal COULD

The modal WILL

The modal WOULD

The modal MAY

The modal MIGHT

The modal SHALL

The modal SHOULD

The modal MUST

The modals in negative, interrogative, and echo construction

Special modals

Exercises

Chapter 9 - The passive voice

Complex modal verb phrases

The major sentence patterns

Indirect and direct objects

The -SELF pronouns

Exercises

Chapter 10 - Nonfinite verbs in the predicate

Verb + Infinitive

Infinitive echo with TO alone

Other verbs followed by infinitives

DARE and NEED with TO

UNKING VERB + COMPLEMENT + INFINITIVE

The idiom HAVE GOT and the verb GET

Exercises

Chapter 11 - VERB + GERUND

Gerunds after prepositions

VERB + GERUND with subject

VERB + INFINITIVE with subject

Use of FOR as marker of the subject of an infinitive

VERB + BASE FORM with subject

VERB + NOUN + PAST PARTICIPLE

SENSORY VERB + BASE FORM with subject

SENSORY VERB + ING-FORM with subject

The infinitive of purpose

Exercises

Chapter 12 - VERB + THAT-clause

VERBS of COMMANDING + THAT-cIause with BASE-FORM VERB

THAT-dauses after WISH

LINKING VERB + COMPLEMENT + THAT-dause

VERB + DIRECT OBJECT + ADJECTIVE

VERB + DIRECT OBJECT + NOUN ADJUNCT

Separable two-word verbs

Inseparable two-word verbs

Exercises

Chapter 13 - Modifiers of nouns

The noun determiners

Use of the noun determiners

Noun determiners as substitute nouns

Exercises

Chapter 14 - Adjectives

The comparison of adjectives

Noun adjuncts

Nouns in apposition

The possessive

Numbered noun modifier

Participles as modifiers

Exercises

Chapter 15 - Gerunds in noun compounds

Infinitives as modifiers of nouns

Prepositional phrases as noun modifiers

Adjective clauses

Use of relative pronouns, except THAT

Adjective clauses with WHEN, WHERE, and WHY

The use of intensifiers with adjectives

Position of noun modifiers

Order of adjectives and other modifiers before the noun

Adverbs as modifiers of nouns

Exercises

Chapter 16 - Modification of adjectives

The adverb

Adverbs of place

Adverbs of time

Adverbs of frequency

Some idiomatic adverbs

Adverbs of manner

Adverbs of degree

Exercises

Chapter 17 - Adverbs in series

Parenthetical adverbs

Adverbs modifying special elements in the sentence

Exercises

Chapter 18 - Adverbial clauses

Clauses of time

Clauses of place

Clauses of manner

Clauses of comparison

Clauses of condition

Clauses of purpose and result

Clauses of cause

Clauses of concession

Exercises

Chapter 19 - The emphatic verb phrase

The imperative

Indefinite YOU and THEY

Exclamations

Question words with infinitives

Special uses of dummy IT

Negative words at the beginning of sentences

Exercises

Chapter 20 - Devices of connected speech

Utterances that are less than grammatical sentences

Sentence, connectors

Exercises

Appendix

Reference list of irregular verbs

Key to exercises