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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Using Be and Have | |
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| Noun + is + Noun: Singular | |
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| Noun + are + Noun: Plural | |
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| Pronoun + be + Noun | |
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| Contractions with be | |
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| Negative with be | |
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| Be + Adjective | |
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| Be + a Location | |
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| Summary: Sentence Patterns with be | |
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| Yes/No Questions with be | |
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| Questions with be: Using where | |
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| Using have and has | |
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| Using my, your, his, her, our, their | |
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| Using this and that | |
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| Using these and those | |
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| Asking Questions with what and who + be | |
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| Expressing Present Time (Part 1) | |
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| Form and Basic Meaning of the Simple Present Tense | |
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| Using Frequency Adverbs: always, usually, often, sometimes, seldom, rarely, never | |
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| Using Frequency Adverbs with be | |
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| Pronunciation of Final -s: /z/ and /s/ | |
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| Spelling and Pronunciation of Final -es | |
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| Adding Final -s/-es to Words that End in -y | |
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| Irregular Singular Verbs: has, does, goes | |
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| Summary: Spelling and Pronunciation of -s and -es | |
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| The Simple Present: Negative | |
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| The Simple Present: Yes/No Questions | |
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| The Simple Present: Asking information Questions with Where | |
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| The Simple Present: Asking information Questions with when and what time | |
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| Summary: information Questions with be and do | |
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| Using it to Talk about Time | |
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| Prepositions of Time | |
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| Using it to Talk about the Weather | |
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| Expressing Present Time (Part 2) | |
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| be + -ing: The Present Progressive Tense | |
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| Spelling of -ing | |
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| The Present Progressive: Questions | |
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| The Simple Present vs. the Present Progressive | |
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| Nonaction Verbs not used in the Present Progressive | |
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| See, look at, watch, hear, and listen to | |
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| Need and want + a Noun or an Infinitive | |
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| Would like | |
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| Would like vs. like | |
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| Think about and think that | |
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| There + be | |
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| There + be: Yes/No Questions | |
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| There + be: Asking Questions with how many | |
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| Prepositions of Location | |
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| Nouns and Pronouns | |
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| Nouns: Subjects and objects | |
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| Adjective + Noun | |
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| Subject Pronouns and object Pronouns | |
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| Nouns: Singular and Plural | |
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| Nouns: Irregular Plural Forms | |
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| Nouns: Count and Noncount | |
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| Using an vs. a | |
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| Using a / an vs. some | |
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| Measurements with Noncount Nouns | |
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| Using the | |
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| Using ø (No Article) to Make Generalizations | |
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| Using some and any | |
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| Indefinite Pronouns: something, someone, anything, anyone | |
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| Indefinite Pronouns: nothing and no one | |
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| Expressing Past Time | |
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| Using be: Past Time | |
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| Past of be: Negative | |
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| Past of be: Questions | |
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| The Simple Past Tense: Using -ed | |
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| Past Time Words: yesterday, last, and ago | |
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| Pronunciation of -ed: /t/, /d/, and /Yd/ | |
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| Spelling of -ed: Verbs | |
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| Spelling of -ed: and ing: Two-Syllable Verbs | |
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| The Simple Past: Irregular Verbs | |
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| The Simple Past: Negative | |
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| The Simple Past: Yes/No Questions | |
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| More Irregular Verbs | |
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| The Simple Past: Using where, when, what time, and why | |
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| Questions with what | |
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| Questions with who | |
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| Asking about the Meaning of a Word | |
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| More Irregular Verbs | |
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| Before and after in Time Clauses | |
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| When in Time Clauses | |
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| The English Alphabet | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Days of the Week and Months of the Year | |
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| Ways of Saying the Time | |
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| Irregular Verbs | |
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| Index | |