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Unit Theme Grammar Topics Avoid Common Mistakes
PART 1 The Present
UNIT 1 Are You Often Simple Simple Present (p. 4) Avoiding amn’t;
page 2 Online? Present Time Clauses and Factual remembering a comma
Conditionals (p. 9) after a time clause at the
beginning of a sentence
UNIT 2 Brainpower Present Present Progressive (p. 16) Remembering a form of be
page 14 Progressive Simple Present and Present with the present progressive;
and Simple Progressive Compared remembering -ing for the
Present (p. 19) present progressive
UNIT 3 What’s Imperatives Imperatives (p. 26) Avoiding No in imperatives;
page 24 Appropriate? Let’s . . . (p. 30) remembering an apostrophe
in Don’t and Let’s
PART 2 The Past
UNIT 4 Entrepreneurs Simple Past Simple Past (p. 36) Avoiding the past form after
page 34 Simple Past of Be and did not and didn’t; avoiding
There Was / There Were putting a time expression
(p. 42) between the subject and the
verb
UNIT 5 Science and Simple Past, Time Clauses and the Order Remembering a subject in
page 46 Society Time Clauses, of Past Events (p. 48) time clauses; remembering
Used To, and Past with Used To and the -d in used to for
Would Would (p. 51) affirmative statements
UNIT 6 Memorable Past Past Progressive (p. 60) Avoiding a time clause
page 58 Events Progressive Using When and While with as a complete sentence;
Past Progressive (p. 64) remembering a comma when
the time clause comes first in
a sentence
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PART 3 Nouns, Determiners, and Pronouns
UNIT 7 Privacy Count and Count Nouns and Noncount Remembering a determiner
page 68 Matters Noncount Nouns (p. 70) with a singular count
Nouns Noncount Nouns: noun; avoiding a/an with a
Determiners and noncount noun; avoiding
Measurement Words (p. 75) plural noncount nouns
UNIT 8 The Media Articles Articles (p. 82) Remembering a/an the
page 80 Generalizing: More About first time you mention a
Articles (p. 86) new idea; avoiding the with
generalizations
UNIT 9 Challenging Pronouns; Pronouns (p. 90) Remembering to or for
page 88 Ourselves Direct and Direct and Indirect Objects with certain verbs; avoiding
Indirect (p. 95) double pronouns
Objects
PART 4 The Present Perfect
UNIT 10 Discoveries Present Present Perfect (p. 102) Remembering when
page 100 Perfect Present Perfect or Simple to use the simple past;
Past? (p. 106) remembering when to use
the present perfect
UNIT 11 Unsolved Adverbs Adverbs with Present Avoiding never in negative
page 110 Mysteries with Present Perfect (p. 112) statements; avoiding ever in
Perfect; For Present Perfect with For and affirmative statements
and Since Since (p. 116)
UNIT 12 Cities Present Present Perfect Progressive Remembering have with the
page 120 Perfect (p. 122) present perfect progressive;
Progressive Present Perfect Progressive avoiding the present
or Present Perfect? (p. 126) progressive with for and since
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PART 5 Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions
UNIT 13 A Good Adjectives Adjectives (p. 132) Avoiding misspelling
page 130 Workplace More About Adjectives adjectives ending in -ful;
(p. 135) remembering to put opinion
adjectives first
UNIT 14 Learn Quickly! Adverbs of Adverbs of Manner (p. 142) Remembering to use adverbs
page 140 Manner and Adverbs of Degree (p. 145) to describe how something
Degree happened; avoiding putting
an adverb between the verb
and the object; remembering
that some adverbs have the
same form as adjectives
UNIT 15 Food on the Prepositions Prepositions of Place and Using prepositions correctly
page 150 Table Time (p. 152)
Prepositions of Direction
and Manner (p. 156)
Phrasal Prepositions
and Prepositions After
Adjectives (p. 160)
PART 6 The Future
UNIT 16 Life Lists Future (1) Be Going To, Present Remembering be with going
page 166 Progressive, and Simple to; remembering be before
Present for Future Events the subject in Wh- questions
(p. 168) with be going to
UNIT 17 Getting Older Future (2) Future with Will (p. 176) Remembering will before the
page 174 Future with Will, Be Going main verb with the future;
To, and Present Progressive remembering the base form
(p. 180) of the verb after will
UNIT 18 Learning to Future Time Future Time Clauses (p. 188) Avoiding will in the
page 186 Communicate Clauses Future Conditionals; conditional clause; avoiding
and Future Questions with Time will in the time clause
Conditionals Clauses and Conditional
Clauses (p. 192)
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PART 7 Modal Verbs and Modal-like Expressions
UNIT 19 Amazing Ability Ability with Can and Could Remembering to spell cannot
page 198 Science (p. 200) as one word; remembering
Be Able To (p. 204) the be and to in be able to
UNIT 20 Good Causes Requests and Permission (p. 212) Avoiding could in short
page 210 Offers Requests and Offers (p. 216) answers to requests for
permission; avoiding could
or would in responses to
requests to do things
UNIT 21 The Right Job Advice and Advice (p. 224) Remembering had in
page 222 Suggestions Suggestions (p. 228) had better; avoiding could
not in negative suggestions
UNIT 22 How to Sell It Necessity, Necessity and Prohibition Avoiding an infinitive with
page 232 Prohibition, (p. 234) would rather; remembering
and Preference (p. 238) would before rather
Preference
UNIT 23 Life Today, Present Present Probability (p. 244) Avoiding can for present or
page 242 Life Tomorrow and Future Modals of Future Probability future probability; avoiding
Probability (p. 247) couldn’t for uncertainty
PART 8 Verbs + Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs
UNIT 24 Getting Along Transitive and Transitive and Intransitive Remembering the object
page 252 at Work Intransitive Verbs (p. 254) with a transitive verb; using
Verbs; Verb + Object + Preposition prepositions with verbs
Verbs and Combinations (p. 256)
Prepositions Verb + Preposition
Combinations (p. 258)
UNIT 25 Money, Phrasal Verbs Intransitive Phrasal Verbs Remembering a particle
page 262 Money, (p. 264) in phrasal verbs; avoiding
Money Transitive Phrasal Verbs putting an object pronoun
(p. 267) after a particle
PART 9 Comparatives and Superlatives
UNIT 26 We Are All Comparatives Comparative Adjectives and Avoiding using more and
page 272 Different Adverbs (p. 274) -er together; remembering
Comparisons with As . . . As the second as in as . . . as
(p. 279) comparisons
UNIT 27 The Best and Superlative Superlative Adjectives and Remembering irregular
page 284 the Worst Adjectives Adverbs (p. 286) superlative forms; avoiding
and Adverbs an object pronoun before a
superlative
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PART 10 Gerunds and Infinitives
UNIT 28 Managing Gerunds and Verbs Followed by Gerunds Using infinitives and gerunds
page 292 Time Infinitives (1) or Infinitives (p. 294) after verbs; remembering to
Verbs Followed by Gerunds in infinitives
and Infinitives (p. 297)
UNIT 29 Civil Rights Gerunds and More About Gerunds Avoiding plural verbs with
page 302 Infinitives (2) (p. 304) gerund subjects; avoiding
More About Infinitives infinitives after prepositions;
(p. 307) remembering It and to in It
sentences
PART 11 Clauses and Conjunctions
UNIT 30 Sleep Subject Subject Relative Clauses Avoiding a subject pronoun
page 312 Relative (p. 314) after a subject relative
Clauses More About Subject pronoun; remembering the
(Adjective Relative Clauses (p. 318) relative pronoun in a subject
Clauses relative clause
with Subject
Relative
Pronouns)
UNIT 31 Viruses Object Object Relative Clauses Avoiding who in possessives;
page 322 Relative (p. 324) avoiding whom in subject
Clauses More About Object Relative relative clauses; avoiding an
(Adjective Clauses (p. 328) object pronoun at the end of
Clauses an object relative clause
with Object
Relative
Pronouns)
UNIT 32 Special Days Conjunctions Conjunctions (p. 334) Remembering a comma after
page 332 and Adverb Adverb Clauses (p. 338) the adverb clause when it is
Clauses first
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