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