Preface to the Fourth Edition
NOTE: The titles listed below, for example, Singular pronouns + be , refer to section names, not practice titles. In general, one section has multiple exercises.
The chart numbers refer to the grammar explanations in the Basic English Grammar Student Book.
Volume A Contents
Chapter 1 USING BE
Singular pronouns + be (Chart 1-1)
Plural pronouns + be (Chart 1-2)
Singular nouns: a / an (Chart 1-3)
Plural nouns + be (Chart 1-4)
Contractions with be (Chart 1-5)
Negative with be (Chart 1-6)
Be + adjective (Chart 1-7)
Be + a place (Chart 1-8)
Summary: Basic sentence patterns with be (Chart 1-9)
Chapter 2 USING BE AND HAVE
Yes/no questions with be (Chart 2-1)
Short answers to yes/no questions (Chart 2-2)
Questions with be : using where (Chart 2-3)
Have and has (Chart 2-4)
Possessive adjectives: my, your, her, his, our, their (Chart 2-5)
This or that (Chart 2-6)
These or those (Chart 2-7)
Questions with what/who + be (Chart 2-8)
Review
Chapter 3 USING THE SIMPLE PRESENT
Form of the simple present tense (Chart 3-1)
Frequency adverbs (Chart 3-2)
Position of frequency adverbs (Chart 3-3)
Final s/—es (Chart 3-4)
Spelling of verbs ending in —y (Chart 3-5)
Irregular singular verbs: has, does, goes (Chart 3-6)
Want to, need to, like to (Chart 3-7)
Simple present tense: negative (Chart 3-8)
Yes/no questions (Chart 3-9)
Questions with where and what (Chart 3-10)
Questions with when and what time (Chart 3-11)
Review
Chapter 4 USING THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
Be + -ing : the present progressive (Chart 4-1)
Spelling of -ing (Chart 4-2)
Present progressive: negatives (Chart 4-3)
Present progressive: questions (Chart 4-4)
Simple present vs. the present progressive (Chart 4-5)
Non-action verbs not used in the present progressive (Chart 4-6)
See, look at, watch, hear, and listen to (Chart 4-7)
Think about and think that (Chart 4-8)
Review
Chapter 5 TALKING ABOUT THE PRESENT
Using it to talk about time and dates (Chart 5-1)
Prepositions of time (Chart 5-2)
Talking about the weather (Chart 5-3)
There + be (Chart 5-4)
There + be : yes/no questions (Chart 5-5)
There + be : questions with how many (Chart 5-6)
Prepositions of place (Chart 5-7)
More prepositions of place: a list (Chart 5-8)
Would like (Chart 5-9)
Would like vs. like (Chart 5-10)
Review
Chapter 6 NOUNS AND PRONOUNS
Identifying nouns: subjects, and objects (Chart 6-1)
Nouns as objects of prepositions (Chart 6-2)
Adjectives with nouns (Chart 6-3)
Subject and object pronouns (Chart 6-4)
Singular and plural nouns (Chart 6-5)
Irregular singular and plural nouns (Chart 6-6)
Possessive pronouns and adjectives (Chart 6-7)
Possessive nouns (Chart 6-8)
Whose and who’s (Chart 6-9)
Regular and irregular possessive nouns (Chart 6-10)
Review
Chapter 7 COUNT AND NONCOUNT NOUNS
Nouns: singular/plural; count/noncount (Chart 7-1)
A vs. an (Chart 7-2)
A/an vs. some (Chart 7-3)
Units of measure with noncount nouns (Chart 7-4)
Many, much, a few, a little (Chart 7-5)
The : first mention vs. second mention (Chart 7-6)
Using Ø (no article) to make generalizations (Chart 7-7)
Some and any (Chart 7-8)
Review
Chapter 8 EXPRESSING PAST TIME, PART 1
Be : past forms (Chart 8-1)
Simple past tense of be : negative (Chart 8-2)
Past of be : questions (Chart 8-3)
Simple past tense: —ed (Chart 8-4)
Spelling Rules: —ed verbs
Yesterday, last, and ago (Chart 8-5)
Irregular verbs: Group 1 (Chart 8-6)
Simple past tense: negative (Chart 8-7)
Simple past tense: yes/no questions (Chart 8-8)
Irregular verbs: Group 2 (Chart 8-9)
Irregular verbs: Group 3 (Chart 8-10)
Irregular verbs: Group 4 (Chart 8-11)
Review
Appendix 1 Irregular Verbs
Appendix 2 English Handwriting
Appendix 3 Numbers
Appendix 4 Days/Months/Seasons
Appendix 5 Two-Syllable Verbs: Spelling of -ed and —ing
Index
Answer Key