Communicate What You Mean

Preface

PART 1: TENSE REVIEW

Lesson One

1-1 Present Time

1-2 Non-continuous Verbs

1-3 Past Time to Present Time

1-4 Past Time

1-5 Future Time

1-6 Adverbial Time Expressions

Lesson Two

2-1 Past Perfect

2-2 Past Perfect Continuous

Lesson Three

3-1 Future Continuous

3-2 Future Perfect and Future Perfect continuous

Practice Exam

PART 2: COORDINATION

Lesson Four

4-1 Coordinating Conjunctions and Parallel Structure

4-2 Connecting Complete Sentences

4-3 Connecting more Than Two Sentences

Lesson Five

5-1 Correlative Conjunctions: Either ... Or

5-2 Correlative Conjunctions: Neither ... Nor

5-3 Correlative Conjunctions: Not only ... But also

5-4 Correlative Conjunctions: Both ... And

Lesson Six

6-1 Conjunctive Adverbs

6-2 Position and Punctuation of Conjunctive Adverbs

Practice Exam

Part 3: INDIRECT SPEECH

Lesson Seven

7-1 Basics of Indirect Speech

7-2 Reporting Statements

7-3 Reporting Questions and Answers

7-4 Reporting Commands and Requests

7-5 Reporting Exclamations

Practice Exam

PART 4: SUBORDINATION

Lesson Eight

8-1 Adverbial Clauses

8-2 Sequence of Tenses

8-3 Building Sentences with Adverb Clauses

8-4 Reduction of Adverb Clauses

Practice Exam

Lesson Nine

9-1 Adjective Clauses

9-2 Necessary vs. Unnecessary Adjective Clauses

9-3 Grammatical Functions of Relative Pronouns

9-4 Unnecessary Adjective Clauses That Refer to Complete Sentences

9-5 Reduction of Adjective Clauses

Practice Exam

Lesson Ten

10-1 Noun Clauses

10-2 -Ever Words in Noun Clauses

10-3 Noun Clauses Beginning with That

10-4 Subjunctive form of the Verb in Noun Clauses

Practice Exam

PART 5: PASSIVE VOICE

Lesson Eleven

11-1 Forming the Passive

11-2 Using the Pressure

11-3 Indirect Objects and Direct Objects as Passive Subjects

PART 6: Modal Auxiliaries

Lesson Twelve

12-1 Advisability vs. Necessity

12-2 Past Regrets and Criticisms: Should, Ought to

12-3 Logical Conclusion vs. Expectation

12-4 Suggestions: Could

1205 Possibilities: May, Might, Could

12-6 Possibilities and Impossibilities

12-7 Degrees of Certainty

Practice Elam

PART 7: CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

Lesson Thirteen

13-1 Future Real vs. Present/Future Unreal

13-2 Past Unreal

13-3 Replacing If

13-4 Mixed Conditional Sentences

Practice Exam

PART 8: VERBALS

Lesson Fourteen

14-1 Simple Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases

14-2 Phrase Functioning as Subject and Subject Combined

14-3 Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase Functioning as Direct Object

14-4 Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase Functioning as Adjective and Adjective Complement

14-5 Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase Functioning as Adverb

14-6 Reduction with Infinitive Phrases

14-7 Infinitive/Infinitive Phrase with Enough and Too

Practice Exam

Lesson Fifteen

15-1 Gerunds

15-2 Gerund/Gerund Phrase Functioning as Subject and Subject Complement

15-3 Gerund/Gerund Phrase Functioning as Direct Order

15-4 Gerund as Direct Object vs. Infinitive as Direct Object

15-5 Gerund/Gerund Phrase Functioning as Object of a preposition

Practice Exam

Appendix 1: Irregular Verbs

Appendix 2 Modal Auxiliaries

Appendix 3: Verbs Followed by infinitives

Appendix 4: Verbs Followed by Gerunds

Appendix 5: Verbs Followed by Gerunds or Infinitives

Index