Grammar Dimensions 3B (Paperback)

A Word from Diane Larsen-Freeman
Welcome to Grammar Dimensions, Foruth Edition
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Acknowledgments from the Series Directior
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Unit 1 Overview of the English Verb System : Time and Tense
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of the English Verb System (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Keeping Tenses in the Same Time Frame (Meaning / Use)
Focus 3 Changing the Time Frame Within a Passage (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 2 Overview of the English Verb System : Aspect
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Aspect (Meaning)
Focus 2 Simple Tenses (Use)
Focus 3 Progressive Aspect (Use)
Focus 4 Perfect Aspect (Use)
Focus 5 Perfect Progressive Aspect (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 3 Adverbial Pharases and Clauses
Opening Task
Focus 1 Indentifying Pharses and Clauses (Form)
Focus 2 Basic Adverbial Position (Form)
Focus 3 Position and Order of Adverbial Phrases (Form)
Focus 4 Putting Adverbial Phrases at the Beginning of a Sentence (Form/Use)
Focus 5 Position of Adverbial Clauses (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 4 Passive Verbs
Opening Task
Focus 1 Review of Passive Verb Forms (Form)
Focus 2 Passive Meaning : Agent Versus Receiver (Meaning)
Focus 3 When to Include the Agent (Use)
Focus 4 The Get Passive (Form/Use)
Focus 5 Special Cases : Verbs with No Passive Forms and Other Verbs with No Active Forms (Form / Meaning)
Focus 6 Choosing Passive Versus Active (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 5 One-Word and Phrasal Modals
Opening Task
Focus 1 Review of Modal Forms (Form)
Focus 2 Social Uses of One-Word and Phrasal Modals (Use)
Focus 3 Common One-Word and Phrasal Modal Meaning (Meaning)
Focus 4 Choosing One-Word Versus Phrasal Modals (Use)
Focus 5 Formal AND Informal Use Of Modals (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 6 Infinitives
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Infinitives and Gerunds (Form)
Focus 2 Infinitives (Form / Meaning)
Focus 3 Noun or Pronoun Plus Infinitive (Form / Meaning)
Focus 4 Verbs Followed by Infinitives : Pattern 1 (Form)
Focus 5 Verbs Followed by Infinitives : Pattern 2 (Form)
Focus 6 Verbs Followed by Infinitives : Pattern 3 (Form)
Focus 7 Using Infinitives with Passive Verbs (Form)
Focus 8 Infinitives as Subjects of a Sentence (Form)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 7 Gerunds
Opening Task
Focus 1 Gerunds (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Noun or Pronoun Plaus Gerund (Form)
Focus 3 Verbs Followed by Gerunds : Pattern 1 (Form)
Focus 4 Verbs Followed by Gerunds : Pattern 2 (Form)
Focus 5 Verbs Followed by Gerunds : Pattern 3 (Form)
Focus 6 Gerunds in Other Positions in a Sentence (Form)
Focus 7 Choosing Infinitives Versus Gerunds (Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 8 Intensifiers and Degree Complements
Opening Task
Focus 1 Describing How Much or To What Degree (Meaning)
Focus 2 Intensifiers (Form / Meaning / Use)
Focus 3 Too Versus Very (Meaning)
Focus 4 Using Intensifiers with Too (Meaning)
Focus 5 Using Intensifiers with Not (Use)
Focus 6 Degree Complements with Too and Enough (Form)
Focus 7 Implied Meanings of Too and Not Enough (Meaning)
Focus 8 Degree Complements with So and SUCH (Form)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 9 Modifying Moun Phrases : Adjectives and Participles
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Word Order in Noun Phrases (Form)
Focus 2 Order of Descriptive Adjectives (Form)
Focus 3 Participle Modifiers (Form)
Focus 4 Meanings of Present and Past Participles (Meaning)
Focus 5 Adding Information to Participles (Form / Meaning)
Focus 6 Modifiers That Follow Noun Phrases (Form)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 10 Comparatives
Opening Task
Focus 1 Comparisons of Degree : Adjectives and Adverbs (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Comparisons of Amount : Noun Phrases (Form / Meaning)
Focus 3 Comparisons of Similarity and Difference : Noun Phrases (Form / Meaning)
Focus 4 Comparisons of Similarity and Difference : Verb Phrases (Form / Meaning)
Focus 5 Informal Usage of Comparisons (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 11 Connectors
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Connectors (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Using Coordinating Conjunctions to Connect Parallel Forms (Form)
Focus 3 Problems Using Coordinating Conjunctions (Form/Use)
Focus 4 Problems Using Sentence Connectors (Form)
Focus 5 Problems Using Subordinationg Conjunctions (Form)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 12 Sentence Connectors
Opening Task
Focus 1 Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses (Meaning)
Focus 2 Forming Restrictive Relative Clauses (Form)
Focus 3 Relative Pronouns (Meaning / Use)
Focus 4 Deleting Relative Pronouns (Form)
Focus 5 Whos in Relative Clauses (Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 13 Present Time Frame
Opening Task
Focus 1 Using Simple Present Versus Present Progressive (Use)
Focus 2 Nondynamic (Stative) Verbs (Meaning) (Meaning)
Focus 3 Verbs with Both Nondynamic and Action Meanings (Meaning)
Focus 4 Uses of the Present Time (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 14 Present Perfect : Describing Past Events in Relation to the Present
Opening Task
Focus 1 Choosing Past Time Frame or Present Time Frame (Use)
Focus 2 Relationship to the Present : Still True (Present Perfect Tense) Versus No Longer True (Past Tense) (Use)
Focus 3 Relationship to the Present : Until Now (Use)
Focus 4 Relationship to the Present : Present Result (Present Perfect Tense) (Use)
Focus 5 Present Perfect Progressive Tense (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 15 Future Time : Using Present Tenses, Using Will Versus Be Going To Versus Shall ; Adverbial Clauses in Future
Opening Task
Focus 1 Recognizing Future Time (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Present Tenses for Future Planned Events (Use)
Focus 3 Will Versus Be Going To (Use)
Focus 4 Using Shall (Use)
Focus 5 Other Modals in Future Time (Meaning)
Focus 6 Future-Time Adverbial Clauses (Form)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 16 Modals of Prediction and Inference
Opening Task
Focus 1 Modals of Prediction and Inference (Meaning / Use)
Focus 2 Modals of Inference (Meaning)
Focus 3 Modals of Prediction and Inference in Past Time (Form)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 17 Hypothetical Statements
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Hypothetical Meaning (Meaning)
Focus 2 Actual Versus Hypothetical Conditionals (Meaning)
Focus 3 Hypothetical Conditionals in Present and Future Time Frames (Form)
Focus 4 Hypothetical Conditionals in Past Time Frame (Form)
Focus 5 Mixing Hypothetical and Actual Statements (Use)
Focus 6 Using Hypotheticals for Unlikely Possibility and for Sensitive Topics (Use)
Focus 7 Using Hypotheticals to Imply that the Opposite is True (Use)
Focus 8 Using Hypotheticals with Wish and Verbs of Imagination (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 18 Sensory Verbs, Causative Verbs, and Verbs that Take Subjunctive
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview (Form)
Focus 2 Sensory Verbs (Meaning)
Focus 3 Causative Verbs (Form / Meaning)
Focus 4 Passive Causative Verbs (Form/Use)
Focus 5 Verbs of Urging Followed by Subjunctive that Clauses (Form)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 19 Articles in Discourse
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Determiners (Form)
Focus 2 Overview of Articles (Form / Meaning)
Focus 3 Using Articles in Generic and Particular Statements (Use)
Focus 4 Specific Versus Nonspecific Nouns (Meaning)
Focus 5 Using Articles in Discourse (Use)
Focus 6 Repeating the Indefinite Artice (Use)
Focus 7 Unique Nouns (Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 20 Reference Forms in Discourse
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Demonstratives (Form / Meaning / Use)
Focus 2 Demonstratives for Reference (Use)
Focus 3 This/That Versus It (Meaning)
Focus 4 That/Those with Forward-Pointing Reference (Use)
Focus 5 Special Uses of Demonstratives (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 21 Possessives
Opening Task
Focus 1 Possessives Forms (Form)
Focus 2 Possesive Nouns Versus Possessive Phrases (Use)
Focus 3 Meanings of Possessive Forms (Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 22 Quantifiers, Collective Nouns, and Collective Adjectives
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Quantifiers in English (Form / Meaning)
Focus 2 Affirmative and Negative Quantifiers (Meaning)
Focus 3 Singular and Plural Quantifiers (Form)
Focus 4 Using Quantifiers with Of (Use)
Focus 5 Quantifiers : Special Cases (Use)
Focus 6 Collective Nouns (Form)
Focus 7 Collective Adjectives (Form / Meaning)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 23 Past Time Frame : Using Adverbs and Aspect to Indicate Time Relationships
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Time Relationships in Past Time Frame (Use)
Focus 2 When, While, and Progressive Aspect in Past Time (Use)
Focus 3 Other Uses of Progressive Aspect (Use)
Focus 4 Using Perfect Aspect in Pst Time Frame (Use)
Focus 5 Perfect Progressive Aspect in Pst Time Frame (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 24 Modals in Past Time
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Modals in Past Time Frame (Form / Meaning / Use)
Focus 2 Expressing Necessity, Permission, and Advisability in the Past Time (Form/Use)
Focus 3 Ability in Past Time : Could Versus Was Able To (Meaning)
Focus 4 Habitual Actions in Past Time : Would Versus Used To (Use)
Focus 5 Future in Past Time Frame (Meaning / Use)
Use Your English Activities

Unit 25 Indirect Quotation
Opening Task
Focus 1 Overview of Direct Versus Indirect Quotation (Form / Meaning / Use)
Focus 2 Indirect Quotation and Change of Time Frame (Meaning / Use)
Focus 3 Other Reference Changes in Indirect Quotation (Form / Meaning)
Focus 4 When Noe Tense Changes Are Required in Indirect Quotation (Form)
Focus 5 Reporting Verbs and Indirect Quotation (Form)
Focus 6 Word Order and Indirect Qoutation (Form)
Focus 7 Commands and Requests in Indirect Quotation (Use)
Use Your English Activities

Appendices
Answer key
Credits
Index