NEW EDITION: Understanding and Using English Grammar with MyEnglishLab / Edition 5

by Betty S Azar, Stacy A. Hagen

Overview

For nearly forty years, Understanding and Using English Grammar has been the go-to grammar resource for students and teachers alike. Its time-tested approach blends direct grammar instruction with carefully sequenced practice to develop all language skills.

New to This Edition

• Pretests at the start of each chapter enable learners to check what they already know.
• Updated grammar charts reflect current usage and highlight differences between written and spoken English.
• A new chapter on article usage.
• A variety of high-interest readings include reviews, articles on current topics, and blogs that focus on student success.
• Additional incremental practice helps learners better grasp concepts, while thematic exercises and integrated tasks offer more contextualized language use.
• Step-by-step writing activities are supported by writing tips and pre-writing and editing tasks.

MyEnglishLab (access code provided in the book)

• Rich online practice for all skill areas: grammar, reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
• Instant feedback and remediation.
• Grammar videos.
• Bonus material not included in the Student Book, including additional expanded practice of gerunds and infinitives.
• Robust assessments.
• Gradebook and diagnostic tools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780133994599
Publisher:	Pearson Education ESL
Publication date:	12/22/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fifth Edition

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 PRESENT AND PAST; SIMPLE AND PROGRESSIVE

1-1 Simple Present and Present Progressive

1-2 Simple Present and Present Progressive: Affirmative, Negative, Question Forms

1-3 Verbs Not Usually Used in the Progressive (Stative Verbs)

1-4 Simple Past Tense

1-5 Simple Past vs. Past Progressive

1-6 Unfulfilled Intentions: Was/Were Going To

Chapter 2 PERFECT AND PERFECT PROGRESSIVE TENSES

2-1 Regular and Irregular Verbs

2-2 Irregular Verb List

2-3 Present Perfect: Since and For

2-4 Present Perfect: Unspecified Time and Repeated Events

2-5 Have and Has in Spoken English

2-6 Present Perfect vs. Simple Past

2-7 Present Perfect Progressive

2-8 Past Perfect

2-9 Hadin Spoken English

2-10 Past Perfect Progressive

Chapter 3 FUTURE TIME

3-1 Simple Future: Forms of Will and Be Going To

3-2 Will vs. Be Going To

3-3 Expressing the Future in Time Clauses

3-4 Using the Present Progressive and the Simple Present to Express Future Time

3-5 Future Progressive

3-6 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive

Chapter 4 REVIEW OF VERB TENSES

Chapter 5 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

5-1 Final -s/-es: Use and Spelling

5-2 Basic Subject-Verb Agreement

5-3 Collective Nouns

5-4 Subject-Verb Agreement: Using Expressions of Quantity

5-5 Subject-Verb Agreement: Using There + Be

5-6 Subject-Verb Agreement: Some Irregularities

Chapter 6 NOUNS

6-1 Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns

6-2 Nouns as Adjectives

6-3 Possessive Nouns

6-4 More About Expressing Possession

6-5 Count and Noncount Nouns

6-6 Noncount Nouns

6-7 Some Common Noncount Nouns

6-8 Expressions of Quantity Used with Count and Noncount Nouns

6-9 Using A Few and Few; A Little and Little

6-10 Singular Expressions of Quantity: One, Each, Every

6-11 Using Of in Expressions of Quantity

Chapter 7 ARTICLES

7-1 Articles (A, An, The) with Indefinite and Definite Nouns

7-2 Articles: Generic Nouns

7-3 Descriptive Information with Definite and Indefinite Nouns

7-4 General Guidelines for Article Usage

7-5 Using The or Ø with Titles and Geographic Names

Chapter 8 PRONOUNS

8-1 Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives

8-2 Agreement with Generic Nouns and Indefinite Pronouns

8-3 Personal Pronouns: Agreement with Collective Nouns

8-4 Reflexive Pronouns

8-5 Using You, One, and They as Impersonal Pronouns

8-6 Forms of Other

8-7 Common Expressions with Other

Chapter 9 MODALS, PART 1

9-1 Basic Modal Introduction

9-2 Expressing Necessity: Must, Have To, Have Got To

9-3 Lack of Necessity (Not Have To) and Prohibition (Must Not)

9-4 Advisability/Suggestions: Should, Ought To, Had Better, Could

9-5 Expectation: Be Supposed To/Should

9-6 Ability: Can, Know How To, and Be Able To

9-7 Possibility: Can, May, Might

9-8 Requests and Responses with Modals

9-9 Polite Requests with Would You Mind

9-10 Making Suggestions: Let’s, Why Don’t, Shall I /We

Chapter 10 MODALS, PART 2

10-1 Using Would to Express a Repeated Action in the Past

10-2 Expressing the Past: Necessity, Advice, Expectation

10-3 Expressing Past Ability

10-4 Degrees of Certainty: Present Time

10-5 Degrees of Certainty: Present Time Negative

10-6 Degrees of Certainty: Past Time

10-7 Degrees of Certainty: Future Time

10-8 Progressive Forms of Modals

10-9 Combining Modals with Phrasal Modals

10-10 Expressing Preference: Would Rather

10-11 Summary Chart of Modals and Similar Expressions

Chapter 11 THE PASSIVE

11-1 Active vs. Passive

11-2 Tense Forms of the Passive

11-3 Using the Passive

11-4 The Passive Form of Modals and Phrasal Modals

11-5 Stative (Non-Progressive) Passive

11-6 Common Stative (Non-Progressive) Passive Verbs + Prepositions

11-7 The Passive with Get

11-8 -ed/-ing Adjectives

Chapter 12 NOUN CLAUSES

12-1 Introduction

12-2 Noun Clauses with Question Words

12-3 Noun Clauses with Whether or If

12-4 Question Words Followed by Infinitives

12-5 Noun Clauses with That

12-6 Quoted Speech

12-7 Reported Speech

12-8 Reported Speech: Modal Verbs in Noun Clauses

12-9 The Subjunctive in Noun Clauses

Chapter 13 ADJECTIVE CLAUSES

13-1 Adjective Clause Pronouns Used as the Subject

13-2 Adjective Clause Pronouns Used as the Object of a Verb

13-3 Adjective Clause Pronouns Used as the Object of a Preposition

13-4 Using Whose

13-5 Using Wherein Adjective Clauses

13-6 Using Whenin Adjective Clauses

13-7 Using Adjective Clauses to Modify Pronouns

13-8 Punctuating Adjective Clauses

13-9 Using Expressions of Quantity in Adjective Clauses

13-10 Using Which to Modify a Whole Sentence

13-11 Reducing Adjective Clauses to Adjective Phrases

Chapter 14 GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES, PART 1

14-1 Gerunds and Infinitives: Introduction

14-2 Common Verbs Followed by Gerunds

14-3 Common Verbs Followed by Infinitives

14-4 Infinitives with Objects

14-5 Common Verbs Followed by Either Infinitives or Gerunds

14-6 Using Gerunds as the Objects of Prepositions

14-7 Go + Gerund

14-8 Special Expressions Followed by -ing

14-9 It + Infinitive; Gerunds and Infinitives as Subjects

14-10 Reference List of Verbs Followed by Infinitives

14-11 Reference List of Verbs Followed by Gerunds

14-12 Reference List of Preposition Combinations Followed by Gerunds

Chapter 15 GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES, PART 2

15-1 Infinitive of Purpose: In Order To

15-2 Adjectives Followed by Infinitives

15-3 Using Infinitives with Too and Enough

15-4 Passive Infinitives and Gerunds: Present

15-5 Past Forms of Infinitives and Gerunds

15-6 Using Gerunds or Passive Infinitives Following Need

15-7 Using Verbs of Perception

15-8 Using the Simple Form After Let and Help

15-9 Using Causative Verbs: Make, Have, Get

15-10 Using a Possessive to Modify a Gerund

Chapter 16 COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

16-1 Parallel Structure

16-2 Parallel Structure: Using Commas

16-3 Punctuation for Independent Clauses; Connecting Them with And and But

16-4 Paired Conjunctions: Both . . . And; Not Only . . . But Also; Either . . . Or; Neither . . . Nor

Chapter 17 ADVERB CLAUSES

17-1 Introduction

17-2 Using Adverb Clauses to Show Time Relationships

17-3 Using Adverb Clauses to Show Cause and Effect

17-4 Expressing Contrast (Unexpected Result): Using Even Though

17-5 Showing Direct Contrast: While

17-6 Expressing Conditions in Adverb Clauses: If-Clauses

17-7 Shortened If-Clauses

17-8 Adverb Clauses of Condition: Using Whether or Not and Even If

17-9 Adverb Clauses of Condition: Using In Case

17-10 Adverb Clauses of Condition: Using Unless

17-11 Adverb Clauses of Condition: Using Only If

Chapter 18 REDUCTION OF ADVERB CLAUSES TO MODIFYING ADVERBIAL PHRASES

18-1 Introduction

18-2 Changing Time Clauses to Modifying Adverbial Phrases

18-3 Expressing the Idea of “During the Same Time” in Modifying Adverbial Phrases

18-4 Expressing Cause and Effect in Modifying Adverbial Phrases

18-5 Using Upon + -ing in Modifying Adverbial Phrases

Chapter 19 CONNECTIVES THAT EXPRESS CAUSE AND EFFECT, CONTRAST, AND CONDITION

19-1 Introduction

19-2 Using Because Of and Due To

19-3 Cause and Effect: Using Therefore, Consequently, and So

19-4 Summary of Patterns and Punctuation

19-5 Other Ways of Expressing Cause and Effect: Such . . . That and So . . . That

19-6 Expressing Purpose: Using So That

19-7 Showing Contrast (Unexpected Result)

19-8 Showing Direct Contrast

19-9 Expressing Conditions: Using Otherwise and Or (Else)

Chapter 20 CONDITIONAL SENTENCES AND WISHES

20-1 Overview of Basic Verb Forms Used in Conditional Sentences

20-2 Expressing Real Conditions in the Present or Future

20-3 Unreal (Contrary to Fact) in the Present or Future

20-4 Unreal (Contrary to Fact) in the Past

20-5 Using Progressive Verb Forms in Conditional Sentences

20-6 Using “Mixed Time” in Conditional Sentences

20-7 Omitting If

20-8 Implied Conditions

20-9 Wishes About thePresent and Past

20-10 Wishes About the Future; Use of Wish + Would

 

Appendix SUPPLEMENTARY GRAMMAR CHARTS

Unit A: Basic Grammar Terminology

A-1 Subjects, Verbs, and Objects

A-2 Adjectives

A-3 Adverbs

A-4 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

A-5 Preposition Combinations with Adjectives and Adverbs

Unit B: Questions

B-1 Forms of Yes /No and Information Questions

B-2 Question Words

B-3 Shortened Yes/No Questions

B-4 Negative Questions

B-5 Tag Questions

Unit C: Contractions

Unit D: Negatives

D-1 Using Not and Other Negative Words

D-2 Avoiding Double Negatives

D-3 Beginning a Sentence with a Negative Word

Unit E: Verbs

E-1 The Verb Be

E-2 Spelling of -ing and -ed Verb Forms

E-3 Overview of Verb Tenses

E-4 Summary of Verb Tenses

E-5 Regular Verbs: Pronunciation of -ed Endings

E-6 Pronunciation of Final -s in Verbs and Nouns

E-7 Linking Verbs

E-8 Troublesome Verbs: Raise/Rise, Set/Sit, Lay/Lie

E-9 Irregular Verbs: An Alphabetical Reference List

Listening Script

Index