Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners - Robin Torres-Gouzerh 2016

Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners - Robin Torres-Gouzerh 2016

Preface

1 The sentence

Noun phrases

Verb phrases

Modifiers

2 The verb phrase

Auxiliary verbs

Modal auxiliaries

3 The verb

Linking verbs

Irregular verbs

Tenses

4 The progressive tenses

The present progressive

The past progressive

The future progressive

5 The perfect tenses

The present perfect

The past perfect

The future perfect

6 Modal auxiliaries

Shades of meaning

Special auxiliaries

7 The progressive forms of modal auxiliaries

8 The auxiliary verb do

Using do in questions

Using do in negative sentences

9 The passive voice

Using the passive

10 The passive form of modal auxiliaries

The future tense

The past tense

11 The stative passive

Adjectives and participles

The progressive form vs. the stative passive

Prepositions

12 Past participles with get

13 Participial adjectives

Present participles

Past participles

14 Subject-verb agreement

Third-person singular and plural

The verb be

Expressions of quantity

Collective nouns

Auxiliary verbs

Complex sentences

15 Agreement with nouns

Personal pronouns and collective nouns

Indefinite pronouns

Complex nouns

16 Using other

Adjectives

Pronouns

17 Gerunds

Distinguishing gerunds from present participles

The possessive

18 Conjunctions

Coordinating conjunctions

Conjunctions and their meaning

Correlative conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions

Adverbs that act as conjunctions

19 Prepositions

Compound prepositions

Noun and pronoun objects

More than one prepositional phrase

20 Adjectives and adverbs

Adjectives

Adverbs

21 Filler subjects and impersonal subjects

Filler subjects

Impersonal subjects

22 Clauses

Independent clauses

Dependent clauses

Relative clauses

23 Punctuation

The period

The comma

The semicolon

The colon

The question mark

The exclamation point

The apostrophe

Quotation marks

The hyphen and the dash

Parentheses and brackets

24 Capitalization, numbers, and italics

Capitalization

Numbers

Italics

Appendix Review exercises

Answer key