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| Introduction | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Sources | |
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| Lists of abbreviations | |
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| Interacting | |
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| Naming, greetings and congratulating | |
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| Naming | |
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| Functions: greetings and congratulating | |
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| Letter etiquette | |
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| Function: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Thanking, apologising, requesting and advising | |
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| Thanking | |
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| Apologising | |
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| Asking a third party to do something: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Giving advice: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Phone etiquette | |
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| Possession, desire and making suggestions | |
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| Expressing possession: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Expressing desire/subjunctive: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Making suggestions: modals | |
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| Verbal nouns: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Infinitive constructions: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Partitive genitive: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Seeking and giving clarification | |
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| The interrogative: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Relative clauses 1: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Softening the question | |
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| Asking questions: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Indefinite particles: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Identifying and describing people | |
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| Relative clauses 2: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| He who/whoever: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| The interrogative and conjunction: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Going places | |
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| Present tense usage of [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Present tense usage of [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Past tense usage of [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Past tense usage of [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Verbs of motion in the future: [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] | |
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| 'If' and 'when' (naming conditions): [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Narrating | |
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| Keeping a diary | |
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| The sequencing of events | |
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| Adverbs of time: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Punctuation, co-ordinating | |
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| Aspects of verbs | |
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| Expressing necessity: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Aspects and verbs of motion | |
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| Prefixed verbs of motion | |
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| Word order: subject and predicate | |
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| Memoirs | |
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| Lexis: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Prepositions denoting the sequencing of events in time | |
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| Structuring of discourse using adverbs of time | |
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| Word order: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Sequence of tenses: reported speech, thought or perception | |
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| Aspects: use of the present tense in a narrative | |
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| Figurative meanings of verbs of motion | |
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| Punctuation: parenthetic words and expressions | |
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| Naming places and objects | |
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| Adverbs of degree: [characters not reproducible], etc. | |
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| Anecdote | |
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| Adverbs of time | |
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| Aspects: use of the present tense in narrative | |
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| Prefixed verbs of motion: [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Ellipsis | |
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| Word order: subject and predicate | |
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| Punctuation: nouns in apposition | |
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| Adverbs of purpose: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| The comparative degree of adjectives | |
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| Adverbs: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Biographical sketch | |
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| Lexis: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Adverbs of time: dates | |
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| Adverbs of cause: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Aspects in biographies | |
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| Lexis: verbs commonly used to express death | |
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| Aspects: the prefixes [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Past passive participle (short form) | |
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| Adverbs used as predicates | |
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| Word order: adverbs of time | |
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| Alphabetisms | |
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| News items | |
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| Adverbs of time: telling the time | |
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| Approximation and exactitude | |
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| Adverbs: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Aspects: past imperfective | |
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| Word order: adverbs of time and adverbs of place | |
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| Punctuation in co-ordination and subordination: commas and embedded clauses | |
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| Adverbs of cause: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Lexis: figurative uses of the verb [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Narratives in the future | |
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| Establishing and maintaining a relationship with one's audience | |
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| Fractions: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Adverbs of purpose | |
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| Word building: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Adverbs of time | |
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| Aspects | |
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| Describing | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Adjectives: long and short form | |
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| Word building: verbs from adjectives | |
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| Adjectives: hard and soft | |
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| Adjectives: compound | |
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| Superlative degree of adjectives | |
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| Short form neuter adjective/adverb as predicate | |
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| Lexis: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Impersonal constructions | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Structuring discourse: linking parts of speech | |
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| The reflexive pronoun [characters not reproducible] | |
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| The reflexive possessive adjective [characters not reproducible] | |
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| The reflexive pronoun [characters not reproducible] | |
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| The reciprocal pronoun [characters not reproducible] | |
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| 'Any' ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| 'The same' ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Compound nouns and imperfective gerund | |
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| Lexis and word building: compound nouns | |
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| Imperfective gerund | |
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| Lexis and idioms: wearing and wears | |
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| Aspects and perfective gerund | |
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| Aspects in foregrounding and backgrounding | |
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| Irregular nouns | |
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| Comparative degree of adverbs | |
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| Perfective gerund | |
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| Aspects in the past tense | |
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| Negation and numerals | |
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| Negative pronouns | |
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| Negative adverbs: [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Word building [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Declension of numerals | |
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| Participles | |
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| Present active participle | |
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| Past active participle | |
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| Present participles as nouns | |
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| Present participles as adjectives | |
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| Key to exercises | |
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| Index | |