Welcome to Focus on Grammar v
The Focus on Grammar Unit viii
Scope and Sequence xiv
About the Author xxvi
Acknowledgments xxvii
Reviewers xxviii
Credits xxix

PART 1 Be: Present and Past 2
UNIT 1 Present of Be: Statements 4
UNIT 2 Present of Be: Questions 15
UNIT 3 Past of Be 28

PART 2 Nouns, Adjectives, and Prepositions 40
UNIT 4 Count Nouns and Proper Nouns 42
UNIT 5 Descriptive Adjectives 54
UNIT 6 Prepositions of Place 63

PART 3 Imperatives and the Simple Present 74
UNIT 7 Imperatives; Suggestions with Let’s, Why don’t we . . . ? 76
UNIT 8 Simple Present: Affirmative and Negative Statements 86
UNIT 9 Simple Present: Yes / No Questions and Short Answers 98
UNIT 10 Simple Present: Wh- Questions 109

PART 4 There Is / There Are; Possessives 120
UNIT 11 There is / There are 122
UNIT 12 Possessive Nouns and Adjectives; Pronouns; Questions with Whose 135

PART 5 Modals: Ability and Permission 148
UNIT 13 Ability: Can or Could 150
UNIT 14 Permission: Can or May 160

PART 6 Present Progressive 170
UNIT 15 Present Progressive: Affirmative and Negative Statements 172
UNIT 16 Present Progressive: Yes / No and Wh- Questions 183
UNIT 17 Simple Present and Present Progressive; Non-Action Verbs 194

PART 7 Simple Past 206
UNIT 18 Simple Past: Statements with Regular Verbs 208
UNIT 19 Simple Past: Statements with Irregular Verbs 220
UNIT 20 Simple Past: Questions 231
UNIT 21 Simple Past Review 242

PART 8 The Future 256
UNIT 22 Be going to for the Future 258
UNIT 23 Will for the Future 272
UNIT 24 May or Might for Possibility 285
UNIT 25 Gerunds and Infinitives 295

PART 9 Count / Non-Count Nouns; Much / Many; Quantifiers 306
UNIT 26 Articles with Count and Non-Count Nouns; Some / Any 308
UNIT 27 How much and How many; Quantifiers 322
UNIT 28 Too many and Too much; Enough + Noun 335

PART 10 Modals: Advice and Necessity 346
UNIT 29 Advice: Should and Had better 348
UNIT 30 Necessity: Have to and Must 361

PART 11 Comparisons 374
UNIT 31 The Comparative 376
UNIT 32 Adverbs of Manner 391
UNIT 33 Adjective + Enough; Too and Very; As + Adjective + As 401
UNIT 34 The Superlative 415

Appendices 429
Glossary of Grammar Terms 441
Unit Review Answer Key 445
Games Answer Key 453
Information Gaps, Student B 455
Index 459