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A Word from Diane Larsen-Freeman
Welcome to Grammar Dimensions, Foruth Edition
Empirical and Experiential Support for the Grammar Dimensions Approcach
Acknowledgments from the Series Directior
A Special Thanks

Unit 1 Simple Present
Opening Task
Focus 1 Verbs in the Simple Present Tense (Use)
Focus 2 Simple Present Tense (Form)
Focus 3 Showing How Often Something Happens (Form / Meaning)
Focus 4 Talking About Facts (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 2 Present Progressive and Simple Present
Opening Task
Focus 1 Present Progressive : Actions in Progress (Use)
Focus 2 Present Progressive (Form)
Focus 3 Simple Present or Present Progressive? (Use)
Focus 4 Verbs Not Usually Used in the Progressive (Meaning)
Focus 5 States and Actions (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 3 Talking About the Future
Opening Task
Focus 1 Talking about the Future with Will and Be Going To (Meaning)
Focus 2 Will and Be Going To (Form)
Focus 3 Making Predictions : Will or Be Going To (Use)
Focus 4 Future Plans and Intentions : Be Going To (Use)
Focus 5 Two More Uses of Will : Making Quick Decisions and Serious Promises (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 4 Asking Questions
Opening Task
Focus 1 Review of Yes/No Questions (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Review of Wh-Questions (Form / Meaning)
Focus 3 Wh-Wuestions That Focus on the Subject (Form / Meaning)
Focus 4 Wh-Questions with Rising Intonation : Checking Information (Use)
Focus 5 Choice Questions (Form/Meaning/Use)
Focus 6 Tag Questions (Form / Meaning)
Focus 7 Tag Question Intonation (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 5 Modals of Probability and Possibility
Opening Task
Focus 1 Using Could, May, Might, Must, Couldn't and Can't to Show How Certain You Are about the Present (Meaning)
Focus 2 Modals of Probability and Possibility (Form)
Focus 3 Modals of Probability and Possibility in the Past (Form)
Focus 4 Modals of Probability and Possibility with the Progressive (Form)
Focus 5 Future Probability and Possibility with Modals (Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 6 Past Progressive and Simple Past with Time Clauses
Opening Task
Focus 1 Past Progressive and Simple Past (Use)
Focus 2 Past Progressive (Form)
Focus 3 When, While, and As Soon As (Meaning)
Focus 4 Time Clauses with When, While, As Soon As, Before, and After (Form)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 7 Similarities and Differences
Opening Task
Focus 1 Expressing Difference : Comparatives and Superlatives (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Similarities and Differences : As…As and Not As…As (Meaning)
Focus 3 Using As…As and Not As…As (Form)
Focus 4 Making Tactful Comparisons with As…As and Not As… As (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 8 Measure Words and Quantifiers
Opening Task
Focus 1 Measure Words with Food (Meaning)
Focus 2 Mesure Words with Count and Noncount Nouns (Form)
Focus 3 Common Quantifiers (Form/Meaning/Use)
Use Your English Activities Like, Want, Need

Unit 9 Degree Complements
Opening Task
Focus 1 Enough, Not Enough, Too (Meaning)
Focus 2 Enough, Not Enough, Too (Form)
Focus 3 Too Much and Too Many ; Too Little and Too Few (Form / Meaning)
Focus 4 Too versus Very (Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 10 Giving Advice and Expressing Opinions
Opening Task
Focus 1 Giving Advice with Should, Ought To, Shouldn't (Meaning)
Focus 2 Using Need To and Imperatives to Give Advice (Use)
Focus 3 Sould and Ought To versus Must (Use)
Focus 4 Sould and Ought To versus Had Better (Use)
Focus 5 Sould versus Could and Might (Use)
Focus 6 Sould and Ought To versus Might, Could, Need To, Had Better, and Must (Use)
Focus 7 Expressing Opinions with Should, Ought To, and Sould Not (Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 11 Modals of Necessity and Prohibition
Opening Task
Focus 1 Modals of Necessity, Prohibition, and Permission (Meaning)
Focus 2 Modals and Phrasal Modals : Must, Have To, and Have Got To (Form)
Focus 3 Have To versus Have Got To (Use)
Focus 4 Using Cannot and Must Not to Show Something Is Prohibited or Not Permitted (Meaning / Use)
Focus 5 Must and Have To versus Must Not, Cannot, and Do Not Have To (Meaning / Use)
Focus 6 Talking about the Present, Past, and Future with Have To and Must (Form)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 12 Expressing Likes and Dislikes
Opening Task
Focus 1 Expressing Similarity with Too and Either (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Expressing Similarity with So and Neither (Form / Meaning)
Focus 3 Expressing Similarity with So (Use)
Focus 4 Showing Agreement with Short Phrases (Use)
Focus 5 Short Phrases or Hedges and Emphatic Do (Use)
Focus 6 Likes and Dislikes with Gerunds and Infinitives (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 13 Present Perfect with Since and For
Opening Task
Focus 1 Present Perfect : Connection Past and Present (Use)
Focus 2 Forming the Present Perfect (Form)
Focus 3 For and Since (Meaning)
Focus 4 For and Since (Form)
Focus 5 Verbs Not Used with Present Perfect and For (Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 14 Present Perfect and Simple Past
Opening Task
Focus 1 Present Perfect versus Simple Past (Use)
Focus 2 Ever and Never in Questions and Statements (Meaning)
Focus 3 Present Perfect in Questions (Use)
Focus 4 Already and Yet (Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 15 Present Perfect Progressive
Opening Task
Focus 1 Present Perfect Progressive and Just : Recent Activities (Use)
Focus 2 Present Perfect Progressive (Form / Meaning)
Focus 3 Perfect Progressive : Unfinished Actions (Use)
Focus 4 Present Perfect Progressive for New Habits (Use)
Focus 5 Present Perfect versus Present Perfect Progressive (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 16 Making Offers with Would You Like
Opening Task
Focus 1 Offers with Would You Like (Form)
Focus 2 Would You Like…? Or Do You Want…? (Use)
Focus 3 Accepting and Refusing Offers (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 17 Requests and Permission
Opening Task
Focus 1 Making Polite Requests (Use)
Focus 2 Politely Refusing Requests (Use)
Focus 3 Responding to Requests (Form)
Focus 4 Asking for Permission (Use)
Focus 5 Responsing to Requests for Permission (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 18 Used To with Sill and Anymore
Opening Task
Focus 1 Comparing Past and Present with Used To (Meaning)
Focus 2 Used To (Form)
Focus 3 Anymore (Use)
Focus 4 Still (Form / Meaning)
Focus 5 Adverbs of Frequency (Form)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 19 Past Perfect
Opening Task
Focus 1 Past Perfect and Simple Past (Meaning)
Focus 2 Past Perfect (Meaning)
Focus 3 Before, After, By The Time, By (Meaning)
Focus 4 Past Perfect versus Present Perfect (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 20 Articles
Opening Task
Focus 1 Definite and Indefinite Articles : The, A/An, no articles, and Some (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Using Articles : First and Second Mention (Use)
Focus 3 Indefinite Articles with Singular, Plural, and Noncount Nouns (Form)
Focus 4 Some Instead of No Articles (Meaning)
Focus 5 The with Singular, Plural, and Noncount Nouns (Form)
Focus 6 Making General Statements with No Articles (Meaning)
Focus 7 The with Unique/Easily Identified Nouns (Meaning)
Focus 8 Using Articles : Second Mention, Related Mention, and Certain Adjectives (Meaning / Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 21 Articles with Names of Places
Opening Task
Focus 1 Articles with Names of Places (Form)
Focus 2 Articles with Names of Institutions (Form)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 22 The Passive
Opening Task
Focus 1 Active and Passive (Meaning)
Focus 2 Forming the Be Passive (Form)
Focus 3 The Passive (Use)
Focus 4 Including the Agent in Passive Sentences (Use)
Focus 5 Forming the Get-Passive (Form)
Focus 6 Be-Passive versus Get-Passive (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 23 Phrasal Verbs
Opening Task
Focus 1 Phrasal Verbs (Form)
Focus 2 When to Use Phrasal Verbs and How to Learn Them (Meaning / Use)
Focus 3 Phrasal Verbs That Take Objects (Form / Meaning)
Focus 4 Separating Pharasal Verbs (Use)
Focus 5 Inseparable Pharasal Verbs (Form / Meaning)
Focus 6 When and When Not to Separate Phrasal Vervs (Use)
Focus 7 Phrasal Verbs That Do Not Take Objects (Form / Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 24 Adjective Clauses and Participles as Adjectives
Opening Task
Focus 1 Adjective Clauses : Using Who and That to Describe People (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Which and That (Form / Use)
Focus 3 Participles as Adjectives (Form / Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 25 Conditionals
Opening Task
Focus 1 Hypothetical Conditionals (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Word Order in Conditionals (Form)
Focus 3 Past Hypothetical Conditionals (Form / Meaning)
Focus 4 Future conditionals (Form / Meaning)
Focus 5 Future conditionals or Hypothetical Conditions? (Meaning)
Focus 6 Factual Conditionals (Form / Meaning)
Focus 7 Would, Might, May, and Will in Conditionals (Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Appendices
Answer Key (Puzzles and Problems Only)
Credits
Index