An informative, flexible, and easy-to-use grammar reference and practice book.
- Intermediate Grammar leads the student away from the beginner's concern with form and dependence on memorization, to a
new awareness of the meanings and uses of structures and a new creativity and confidence in communication.
- It introduces grammatical structures in authentic language and contexts.
- It explains each structure accurately but without overwhelming the student, pointing out differences between spoken and
written language.
- A wealth of exercises is provided for practice, ranging from controlled work on form to more communicative work on
meaning and use. The practice tasks are intellectually engaging, calling upon students' judgment, creativity, and problem-
solving skills.
- Self-study features encourage learner independence.
- Chapter Summaries facilitate review by providing useful overviews of form, meaning, and use.
- A Glossary of Grammar Terms gives a concise explanation of all the terms used in the book.
- Appendices provide essential information on verbs, spelling, and pronunciation.
- A detailed Index ensures that students can access the information in a number of ways without necessarily knowing
grammatical terms.
- A split edition in two volumes is available.
- A Teacher's Book provides presentation ideas, extension activities, photocopiable assessment quizzes, and an answer key.
1. Expressing the Present: The Simple Present, the Present Continuous, and Stative Verbs
2. Adverbs of Frequency, There Is and There Are, and Imperatives
3. Expressing Past Time: The Simple Past, Used to, and the Past Continuous
4. Expressing Future Time: Be Going to, Will, the Present Continuous, and the Simple Present; Connecting Sentences
5. Complex Sentences: Past Time Clauses, Future Time Clauses, and Real If Sentences
6. Connecting the Past and the Present: The Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous
7. Social Modals: Requests, Permission, Suggestions, Advice, Opinions, Obligations, Necessity, Lack of Necessity, and
Prohibition
8. Modals of Ability and Belief; Past Modals
9. Relative Clauses
10. Count and Noncount Nouns
etc.