Focus on Grammar An Intermediate Course For Reference And Practice Volume A

INTRODUCTION PART V: ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS: REVIEW AND EXPANSION Unit 22 ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS Transcript of a conversation between a couple visiting an apartment for rent and its owner Unit 23 ADJECTIVES: COMPARATIVES AND EQUATIVES Restaurant review: Bigger and (Often) Better Unit 24 ADJECTIVES: SUPERLATIVES Greeting cards (holidays, birthday, Valentine's Day, etc.) Unit 25 ADVERBS: EQUATIVES, COMPARATIVES, SUPERLATIVES Transcript of a TV halftime report: two sportscasters discussing a basketball game Review or SelfTest From Grammar to Writing: USING DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES Writing a descriptive paragraph PART VI: GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES Unit 26 GERUNDS: SUBJECT AND OBJECT Online bulletin board about smoking: Can't Stand Seeing Those Signs! Unit 27 GERUNDS AFTER PREPOSITIONS School bulletin board (different types of notices) Unit 28 INFINITIVES AFTER CERTAIN VERBS Advice column: Ask Annie Unit 29 INFINITIVES OF PURPOSE Ad for an electronic pocket organizer: Datalator Unit 30 INFINITIVES WITH TOO AND ENOUGH Transcript of a radio talk show about voting rights for people under age eighteen Unit 31 GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES Self-help magazine article about remembering names: Stop Forgetting Review or SelfTest From Grammar to Writing: COMBINING SENTENCES WITH AND, BUT, SO, OR Writing a personal letter PART VII: MORE MODALS AND RELATED VERBS AND EXPRESSIONS Unit 32 PREFERENCES: PREFER, WOULD PREFER, WOULD RATHER Questionnaire about preferences: Leisure Time Activities Unit 33 NECESSITY: HAVE (GOT) TO, DON'T HAVE TO, MUST, MUST NOT, CAN'T Introduction to a driver's manual: Becoming a Safe Driver Unit 34 EXPECTATIONS: BE SUPPOSED TO Excerpt from an etiquette book: Wedding Wisdom Unit 35 FUTURE POSSIBILITY: MAY, MIGHT, COULD Transcript of a TV weather report Unit 36 ASSUMPTIONS: MUST, HAVE (GOT) TO, MAY, MIGHT, COULD, CAN'T Excerpt from a Sherlock Holmes story: The Red-Headed League Review or SelfTest From Grammar to Writing: COMBINING SENTENCES WITH BECAUSE, ALTHOUGH, EVEN THOUGH Writing a business letter PART VIII: NOUNS AND ARTICLES

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