Grammar Dimensions 4A (Paperback)

Unit 1 Verb Tesnses in Written and Spoken Communication
Opening Task
Focus 1 The English Verb System : Overview (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Moment of Focus (Meaning / Use)
Focus 3 Consistency in Tense Usage (Use)
Focus 4 Time-Frame Shifts in Written and Spoken Communication (Use)
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Unit 2 Verv - Aspect and Time Frames
Opening Task
Focus 1 Review of Simple Tenses (Use)
Focus 2 Review of Progressive Verbs (Use)
Focus 3 Review of Perfect Verbs (Use)
Focus 4 Review of Perfect Progressive Verbs (Use)
Focus 5 Summary : Present Time Frame (Form / Meaning / Use)
Focus 6 Summary : Past Time Frame (Form / Meaning / Use)
Focus 7 Summary : Future Time Frame (Form / Meaning / Use)
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Unit 3 Subject - Verb Agreement
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Subject-Verb Agreement (Form)
Focus 2 Identifying Head Nouns in Long Subjects (Form)
Focus 3 Agreement in Sentences with Correlative Conjuncions : Both… And; Either…Or; Neither..Nor (Form)
Focus 4 Agreement with Noncount Nouns, Collective Nouns, and Nouns Derived from Adjectives (Form)
Focus 5 Subjects Requiring Singular Verbs (Form)
Focus 6 Agreement with Fractions, Percentages, and Quantifiers (Form)
Focus 7 Exceptions to Traditional Agreement Rulls (Use)
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Unit 4 Passive Verbs
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Passive versus Active Verb Use (Use)
Focus 2 Review of Passive Verb Forms (Form)
Focus 3 Stative Passives in Contrast to Dynamic Passives (Use)
Focus 4 Use of Stative Passive Verbs (Use)
Focus 5 Complex Passives (Form/Use)
Focus 6 Contexts for the Use of Complex Passives (Use)
Focus 7 Using the Passive to Create Cohesion in Discourse (Use)
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Unit 5 Reference Words and Phrases
Opening Task
Focus 1 Classification versus Identification Meaning of Articles (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Special Uses of the Definite Aricle (Use)
Focus 3 Review and Special Uses of Zero Article (Use)
Focus 4 Particular versus Generic Reference of Articles (Use)
Focus 5 The Plural Nouns for General Reference (Use)
Focus 6 Abstract Generic Versus Concrete Generic (Use)
Focus 7 Definitions of Common Nouns (Form / Meaning / Use)
Focus 8 Articles with Names of Body Parts (Form)
Focus 9 Articles with Names of Illnesses (Form)
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Unit 6 Reference Words and Phrases
Opening Task
Focus 1 Review of Reference Forms (Form)
Focus 2 Reference Forms with The and Demonstractive (Form/Use)
Focus 3 Determiners (Use)
Focus 4 Using Personal Pronouns versus The Noun Phrases (Meaning / Use)
Focus 5 Demonstractive Determiners and Pronouns (Use)
Focus 6 Demonstrative Forms versus The and It/Them References (Use)
Focus 7 Reference Forms with Such (Form / Meaning)
Focus 8 Such Versus Demonstrative Determiners (Meaning)
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Unit 7 Relative Clauses Modifying Subjects
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Restrictive Relative Clauses (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Making Mouns Phrases More Specific with Relative Clauses (Meaning)
Focus 3 Review of Reduced Relative Clauses (Form)
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Unit 8 Relative Clauses Modifying Objects
Opening Task
Focus 1 Type of Relavie Clauses Modifying Objects (Form)
Focus 2 Using Relative Clauses to Modify Nouns (Meaning)
Focus 3 Multiple Relative Clauses (Use)
Focus 4 Deleting Relative Pronouns (Form)
Focus 5 Relative Clauses in Formal and Informal Communication (Use)
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Unit 9 Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
Opening Task
Focus 1 Relative versus Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses in Definitions (Use)
Focus 3 Using a Relative Clause to Comment on an Entire Idea (Use)
Focus 4 Using Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses to Quantify and Comment about Features (Form/Use)
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Unit 10 Relative Adverb Clauses
Opening Task
Focus 1 Relative Adverbs versus Relative Pronouns (Meaning)
Focus 2 Pattern 1 : Relative Adverb Clauses that Modify Nouns
Focus 3 Pattern 2 : Relative Adverbs without Head Nouns
Focus 4 Pattern 3 : Head Nouns without Relative Adverbs
Focus 5 Contexts for Relative Adverb Patterns (Use)
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Unit 11 Correlative Conjunctions
Opening Task
Focus 1 Correlative Conjunctions for Emphasis (Meaning)
Focus 2 Joining Phrases and Clauses with Correlative Conjunctions (Form)
Focus 3 Correlative Conjunctions : Parallelism ; Being Concise (Use)
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Unit 12 Sentence Connectors
Opening Task
Focus 1 Connectors (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Additional Connectors (Meaning / Use)
Focus 3 Alternative Connectors (Meaning / Use)
Focus 4 Exemplifying, Identifying, and Clarifying Connectors (Meaning / Use)
Focus 5 Simmilarity Connectors (Meaning / Use)
Focus 6 Contrast and Concession Connectors (Meaning / Use)
Focus 7 Connectors Expressing Effects/Results and Purposes (Meaning / Use)
Focus 8 Punctuation of Sentence Connectors (Form)
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Unit 13 Modal Perfect Verbs
Opening Task
Focus 1 Review of Modal Perfect Verbs (Form)
Focus 2 Expressing Judgments about Past Situations : Should Have, Could Have, Might Have (Meaning / Use)
Focus 3 Expressing Obligations and Expectations : Be Supposed to Have, Be to Have (Meaning / Use)
Focus 4 Inferring/Making Deductions from Past Evidence : Must (Not) Have, Can't Have, Should (Not) Have, Would (Not) Have (Meaning / Use)
Focus 5 Expressing Guesses about Past Situations : May Have, Might Have, Could Have, Can Have (Meaning)
Focus 6 Expressing Results of Unreal Conditions : Would Have, Could Have, Might Have (Meaning)
Focus 7 Predictiong the Completion of a Future Event : Will Have, Shall Have (Meaning / Use)
Focus 8 Summary of Modal Perfect Verbs (Form / Meaning / Use)
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Unit 14 Discourse Organizer
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Discourse Organizers (Form/Use)
Focus 2 Sequential Connectors : Choronological and Logical (Meaning / Use)
Focus 3 There + Be as a Topic Introducer (Use)
Focus 4 Summary Connectors (Use)
Focus 5 Rhetorical Questions to Introduce and Shift Topics (Form/Use)
Focus 6 Rhetorical Questions to Focus on Main Points (Use)
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Unit 15 Conditionals : if, Only if, Unless, Even Though, Even if
Opening Task
Focus 1 Review of Conditional Sentences with If (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Exclusive Conditions : Only if and Unless (Meaning)
Focus 3 Fronted Only If and Not Unless Clauses (Form/Use)
Focus 4 If…Not versus Unless (Meaning)
Focus 5 Even Though and Even If (Meaning)
Focus 6 Giving Advice (Use)
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Unit 16 Reducing Adverb Clauses
Opening Task
Focus 1 Reducing Adverb Clauses of Time (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Reducing Adverb Clauses That Show Cause (Form / Meaning)
Focus 3 Position and Punctuation of Reduced Adverb Clauses (Form / Meaning)
Focus 4 Reduced Adverbial Clauses with Emotive Verbs (Meaning)
Focus 5 Avoiding Dangling Participles (Meaning)
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Unit 17 Preposition Clusters
Opening Task
Focus 1 Verb + Preposition Clusters (Form)
Focus 2 Verb + With Clusters (Meaning)
Focus 3 Verb + From Clusters (Meaning)
Focus 4 Verb + For Clusters (Meaning)
Focus 5 Adjective + Prepoisition Clusters (Form)
Focus 6 Multiword Preposition Clusters (Form)
Focus 7 Preposition Clusters : Introducing a Topic/Identifying a Source (Use)
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Unit 18 Gerunds and Infinitives
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Gerunds and Infinitives (Form)
Focus 2 Infinitives and Gerunds in Perfective, Progressive, and Passive (Form)
Focus 3 Gerunds versus Infinitives (Meaning)
Focus 4 Gerunds and Infinitives as Direct Object (Form)
Focus 5 For with Infinitives and 's with Gerunds (Form)
Focus 6 Gerunds as Object of Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs (Form)
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Unit 19 Perfective Infinitives
Opening Task
Focus 1 Review of Perfective Infinitive Structures (Form)
Focus 2 Expressing Past Events (Meaning)
Focus 3 Progressive and Passive Forms of Perfective Infinitives (Form)
Focus 4 Negatice Forms of Perfective Infinitives (Form/Use)
Focus 5 Expressing Likes, Preferences, and Dislikes Contrary to Past Fact (Use)
Focus 6 Expressing Other Emotions and Attitudes with Perfective Infinitives (Form/Use)
Focus 7 Expressing Uncertainty aobut Past Events (Use)
Focus 8 Expressing Obligations, Intentions, and Future Plans (Use)
Focus 9 Perfective Infinitives with Enough and Too (Use)
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Unit 20 Adjective Complements in Subject and Predicate Position
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Adjective Complements (Form)
Focus 2 Adjective Complements in Subject and Predicate Position (Form/Use)
Focus 3 Infinitives, Gerund, and That Clauses (Meaning)
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Unit 21 Noun Complements Taking That Clauses
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Noun Complements (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 That Clause Noun Complements versus Restrictive Relative Clauses (Meaning)
Focus 3 That Clause Noun Complements in Subject Position (Use)
Focus 4 The Fact That… (Use)
Focus 5 That Clause Noun Complements Following Transitive Adjectives and Phrasal Verbs (Form)
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Unit 22 Subjunctive Verbs in That Clauses
Opening Task
Focus 1 Subjunctive Verbs in That Clauses (Form/Use)
Focus 2 Subjunctive Verbs in Noun Complements (Form)
Focus 3 Subjunctive Verbs in Adjective Complements (Form)
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Unit 23 Emphatic Structures : Emphatic Do, No versus Not
Opening Task
Focus 1 Emphatic Structures (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Some Ways to Use Emphatic (Use)
Focus 3 Not versus No (Form / Meaning)
Focus 4 When to Use No for Emphasis (Use)
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Unit 24 Fronting Structures for Emphasis and Focus
Opening Task
Focus 1 Fronted Structures (Form)
Focus 2 Order of Subjects and Auxiliaries (Form)
Focus 3 Patterns of Inversion with Fronted Structures (Form)
Focus 4 Fronted Negative Forms : Adverbials (Form)
Focus 5 Fronted Negative Forms : Objects and Conjunctions (Form)
Focus 6 Fronted Structures : Emphasizing, Contrasting, and Focusing on Unexpected Information (Use)
Focus 7 Fronted Structures : Creating Cohesion in Discourse (Use)
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Unit 25 Focusing and Emphasizing Structures : It-Clefts and Wh-Clefts
Opening Task
Focus 1 Structure of It-Cleft Sentences (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Focus Elements in Cleft Sentences (Form)
Focus 3 It-Clefts in Spoken and Written Communication (Meaning)
Focus 4 It-Clefts : Emphasizing Time, Place, and Characters (Meaning)
Focus 5 Other Forms of Cleft Sentences (Form / Meaning)
Focus 6 Wh-Clefts (Use)
Focus 7 Using Wh-Clefts for Emphasis (Use)
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Appendices
Answer key
Exercises
Credits
Index