Teaching english grammar : What to teach and how to teach it Jim Scrivener

Contents index.

Contents.
Singular and plural.
countable and uncountable nouns.
Continers, quantities and pieces.
Subject and object pronouns.
Reflexive pronouns.
Possessives.
This, that, these, those.
Articles.
Some and any.
Much, many, a lot of, plenty of, a great deal of.
Few and a few; little and a little.
Other quantifiers.
Adjective order.
Comparatives.
Superlatives.
Comparisons: as... as, not as... as, the same as, like.
Comparisons: too and enough.
Prepositiones of place.
Prepositions of movement.
Prepositions of time.
have and have got.
Present simple: be.
Present simple: affirmative.
Presente simple: negative.
Present simple: questions.
Imperatives.
Adverbs of frecuency.
Present progressive: affirmative ("nox" meaning)
Present progressive: negative and questions.
Present progressive constrasted with present simple.
Past simple: be.
Past simple: regular verbs.
Past simple: irregular verbs.
Past simple: questions and short answers.
Past simple: negative.
Past progressive: "in progress"
Past progressive: "interrupted actions".
Present perfect: Have you ever...?
Present perfect: just.
Present perfect: "up to now".
Time words: already, yet and always.
time words: for and since.
Presente perfect progressive.
Past perfect simple.
Past perfect progressive.
Will.
Going to.
Will contrasted with going to.
Presente progressive: "futurre arrangements".
Future progressive and future perfect.
Requests, orders, offers, permission: can, could, will, would, may, might.
Ability: can, can´t, couldn´t, be able to.
Obligation and compulsion: must, have to, should, ought.
Possibility and certainty: may, might, could, must, must have, cant´t, cant´t have.
Modal verbs: an overview.
Zero conditional.
First conditional.
Third conditional.
Passives.
Causatives.
Multi-word verbs.
Direct and reported speech.
Used to.
Questions tags.
Relative pronouns and relative clauses.
Defining and non-defining relative clauses.
´d better / had better.
Two-verb structures: -ing or infinitve?
In case.
Further reading.

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