Grammar Express, with Answer Key

High - Intermediate Level.

Grammar Express is a new intermediate - high-intermediate text that features short units that present and practice key grammar points. The text's concise, easy-to-follow format is organized into 76 four-page thematic units.

Grammar Express Contents Part I: Present and Imperative Unit 1: Present Progressive (I am studying.) Unit 2: Simple Present Tense (I study.) Unit 3: Non-Action Verbs (I understand.) Unit 4: Present Progressive andSimple Present Tense (I am studying. / I study.) Unit 5: Imperative (Study! / Don't Study!) SelfTest I Part II: Past Unit 6: Simple Past Tense: Affirmative Statements (I studied.) Unit 7: Simple Past Tense: Negative Statements and Questions (I didn't study. / Did you study?) Unit 8: Used to (I used to study.) Unit 9: Past Progressive (I was studying.) Unit 10: Past Progressive andSimple Past Tense (I was studying. / I studied.) SelfTest II Part III: Present Perfect and Past Perfect Unit 11: Present Perfect: Since and For (I have studied since May. / I have studied for a month.) Unit 12: Present Perfect: Already and Yet (I have already studied. /I haven't studied yet.) Unit 13: Present Perfect: Indefinite Past (I have studied.) Unit 14: Present Perfect andSimple Past Tense (I have studied. / I studied.) Unit 15: Present Perfect Progressive (I have been studying.) Unit 16: Present Perfect andPresent Perfect Progressive (I have studied. / I have been studying.) Unit 17: Past Perfect (I had studied.) Unit 18: Past Perfect Progressive (I had been studying.) SelfTest III Part IV: Future and Future Perfect Unit 19: Future: Be going to and Will (I am going to study. / I will study.) Unit 20: Future : Contrast Be going to, Will, Simple Present Tense, Present Progressive Unit 21: Future Time Clauses (I will call you after I study.) Unit 22: Future Progressive (I will be studying.) Unit 23: Future Perfect andFuture Perfect Progressive (I will have studied. / I will have been studying.) SelfTest IV Part V: Wh- Questions, Tag Questions, Additions Unit 24: Wh - Questions: Subject and Predicate (Who studied? / Who did you study?) Unit 25: Tag Questions (You studied, didn't you? / You didn't study, did you?) Unit 26: Additions with So, Too, Neither and Not either (I studied, and so did he. / I didn't study, and neither did she.) SelfTest V Part VI: Modals (I) Unit 27: Ability : Can, Could, Be able to (I can study for hours.) Unit 28: Permission : May, Can, Could, Do you mind if ... ? (May I study on my own?) Unit 29: Requests : Will, Can, Would, Could, Would you mind ... ? (Will you study with me?) Unit 30: Advice : Should, Ought to, Had better (You should study English.) Unit 31: Suggestions : Could, Why don't ... ?, Why not ... ?, Let's, How about ... ? (Why not study English?) Unit 32: Preferences : Prefer, Would prefer, Would rather (I would prefer studying Spanish.) SelfTest VI Part VII: Modals (II) Unit 33: Necessity : Have (got) to and Must (I've got to study harder. / I must study harder.) Unit 34: Choice : Don't have to; No Choice: Must not and Can't (I don't have to leave. /I must not leave.) Unit 35: Expectations : Be supposed to (I'm supposed to study.) Unit 36: Future Possibility : May, Might, Could (I may study there next year.) Unit 37: Assumptions : May, Might, Could, Must, Have (got) to, Can't (She must be a good student.) Unit 38: Advisability in the Past: Should have, Ought to have, Could have, Might have (I should have studied harder when I was young.) Unit 39: Speculations about the Past: May have, Might have, Can't have, Could have, Must have, Had to have (He may have been a good student in his youth.) SelfTest VII Part VIII: Adjectives and Adverbs Unit 40: Adjectives and Adverbs (quick / quickly) Unit 41: Participial Adjectives (interesting / interested) Unit 42: Adjectives and Adverbs: Equatives (as quick as / as quickly as) Unit 43: Adjectives: Comparatives (quicker than) Unit 44: Adjectives: Superlatives (the quickest) Unit 45: Adverbs: Comparatives and Superlatives (more quickly than / the most quickly) SelfTest VIII Part IX: Gerunds and Infinitives Unit 46: Gerunds: Subject and Object (Studying is important. / I enjoy studying.) Unit 47: Gerunds after Prepositions (interested in studying / tired of studying) Unit 48: Infinitives after Certain Verbs (I want to study.) Unit 49: Infinitives after Certain Adjectives and Certain Nouns (easy to study /time to study) Unit 50: Infinitives with Too and Enough (too late to study / early enough to study) Unit 51: Infinitives of Purpose (go home to study) Unit 52: Gerunds and Infinitives (stop studying / stop to study) Unit 53: Make , Have, Let, Help, and Get (make him study / get him to study) SelfTest IX Part X: Phrasal Verbs Unit 54: Phrasal Verbs: Inseparable (run into a classmate) Unit 55: Phrasal Verbs: Separable (look a word up) SelfTest X Part XI: Nouns, Quantifiers, Articles, Reflexive and Reciprocal Nouns Unit 56: Nouns (college, Boston College, chalk, students) Unit 57: Quantifiers (a lot of, a few, little) Unit 58: Articles: Indefinite and Definite (a / the) Unit 59: o (No Article) and The (students / the students) Unit 60: Reflexive Pronouns and Reciprocal Pronouns (ourselves / each other) SelfTest XI Part XII: The Passive Unit 61: The Passive: Overview (is done / was done / has been done) Unit 62: The Passive with Modals (must be done) Unit 63: The Passive Causative (have something done) SelfTest XII Part XIII: The Conditional Unit 64: Factual Conditionals: Present (If I study, I get good grades.) Unit 65: Factual Conditionals: Future (If I study, I will get good grades.) Unit 66: Unreal Conditionals: Present (If I studied, I would get good grades.) Unit 67: Unreal Conditionals: Future (If I had studied, I would have gotten good grades.) Unit 68: Wish: Present and Past (I wish I studied here. / I wish I had studied here.) SelfTest XIII Part XIV: Adjective Clauses Unit 69: Adjective Clauses with Subject Relative Pronouns (someone who studies) Unit 70: Adjective Clauses with Object Relative Pronouns (something that I study / the school where I study) Unit 71: Adjective Clauses: Identifying and Non-Identifying (I have a friend who studies here. / My best friend, who knows you, studies here.) SelfTest XIV Part XV: Indirect Speech Unit 72: Direct and Indirect Speech: Imperatives ("Study!" / She told me to study.) Unit 73: Indirect Speech: Statements (1) (She said that she was going to study.) Unit 74: Indirect Speech: Statements (2) (She said she had studied.) Unit 75: Indirect Questions (She asked me if I was studying.) Unit 76: Embedded Questions (She wanted to know what I studied.) SelfTest XV Appendices Appendix 1: Irregular Verbs Appendix 2: Common Non-action (Stative) Verbs Appendix 3: Common Verbs Followed by the Gerund (Base Form of Verb + -ing) Appendix 4: Common Verbs Followed by the Infinitive (To + Base Form of Verb) Appendix 5: Verbs Followed by Objects and the Infinitive Appendix 6: Common Verbs Followed by the Gerund or the Infinitive Appendix 7: Common Verb + Preposition Combinations Appendix 8: Common Adjective + Preposition Combinations Appendix 9: Common Adjectives that Can Be Followed by the Infinitive Appendix 10: Irregular Comparisons of Adjectives, Adverbs, and Quantifiers Appendix 11: Common Participial Adjectives Appendix 12: Some Adjectives that Form the Comparative and Superlative in Two Ways Appendix 13: Common Reporting Verbs Appendix 14: Common Time Word Changes in Indirect Speech Appendix 15: Common Phrases Introducing Embedded Questions Appendix 16: Verbs and Expressions Commonly Used Reflexively Appendix 17: Some Common Phrasal Verbs Appendix 18: Some Common Irregular Plural Nouns Appendix 19: Spelling Rules for the Present Progressive Appendix 20: Spelling Rules for the Simple Present Tense: Third-Person Singular (he, she, it) Appendix 21: Spelling Rules for the Simple Past Tense of Regular Verbs Appendix 22: Spelling Rules for the Comparative (-er) and Superlative (-est) of Adjectives Appendix 23: Spelling Rules for Adverbs Ending in -ly Appendix 24: Contractions with Verb Forms Appendix 25: Punctuation Rules for Direct Speech Appendix 26: Pronunciation Table Appendix 27: Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Present Tense: Third-Person Singular (he, she, it) Appendix 28: Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Past Tense of Regular Verbs