Real Grammar - Susan Conrad, Douglas Biber 2009
Unit 1 Did you want more coffee?
Simple Past Tense in Polite Offers
Unit 2 He's looking at me…
Progressive Verbs vs. Simple Verbs
Unit 3 Studies have shown…
Discovery Verbs and Existence Verbs
Unit 4 I didn’t get a chance…
Unit 5 Did you have fun today?
Meanings of Have + Noun Phrase
Unit 6 It really made a difference…
Meanings of Make + Noun Phrase
Unit 7 Let’s take a look at it
Meanings of Take + Noun Phrase
Unit 8 I felt good about it
Unit 9 Tell me that story
Unit 10 Reports suggest that…
Action Verbs with inanimate Subjects
Unit 11 I might go to Japan
Unit 12 A compromise must be reached
Unit 13 Come on!
Unit 14 I can’t think of his name now
Unit 15 I have to get out of here
Unit 16 No significant difference was found
Unit 17 The accident was caused by failure of…
Unit 18 Further details can be found in…
Unit 19 That’s an important thing to know
Unit 20 I love fitness and stuff like that
Unit 21 The chair of the committee
Unit 22 The introduction of technology
Unit 23 Yeah, that’s right!
Unit 24 He did a nice job
Unit 25 Do this quick
Unit 26 That’s pretty weird
Unit 27 Women are different from men
Unit 28 It looks pretty awful though
Unit 29 Finally, on the negative side…
Unit 30 It would thus appear that…
Unit 31 I don’t think it will be a problem
Verb + Noun Clause for Uncertainty
Unit 32 I think I can find it
Deletion of That in Noun Clauses
Unit 33 She seemed to like him a lot
Unit 34 We couldn’t stop laughing
Unit 35 This is what happens
Unit 36 It is possible that…
That-Clauses or infinitive Phrases for Attitudes
Unit 37 … and she goes oh don’t worry
Unit 38 The authors argue that…
Unit 39 Evidence for life on Mars
Unit 40 Voter registration procedures
Adjectives and Nouns to Modify a Noun
Unit 41 A question which is often asked
Adjective Clauses and Relative Pronoun Choice
Unit 42 That’s the way I look at it
Adjective Clauses with Adverb Meanings
Unit 43 Is there anything I can do?
Pronouns Modified by Adjective Clauses
Unit 44 I’ve got a lot to do
Unit 45 The approach used in nursing
Unit 46 A number of reasons
Prepositional Phrases Modifying Nouns
Unit 47 He saluted me, which I enjoyed
Adjective Clauses That Modify Sentences
Unit 48 Well, I better get going
Unit 49 Me too
Unit 50 The stuff thought you could use