NOUNS, ARTICLES, AND DETERMINERS _ Table of Contents Open Window Grammar, Second Edition Nouns 1 Articles 7 This, That, These, Those 9 weap UP Recall Game a 2 THERE + BE | PRONOUNS ‘There + Be 2 Prononus vy Possessive Forins 16 Roflesive Pronouns. a Avoiding Pronous 19 WRAP UP Describe a Celebrity: 20 5 PRESENT TENSES The Present Tenses a “The Simple Present 2 ‘The Present Progressive. 8 Simple Present vs, Present Progressive 30 WRAP UP Beliefs Survey 33 te PAST TENSES The Past Tenses MM ‘The Simple Past 34 The Past Progressive 40 Simple Past vs. Past Progressive 2 Avoiding Tense Shifts 43 WRAP UP An Important Decision 5 FUTURE TENSES ‘Will and (Be) Going, To 45 ‘Time Clauses. 48 Using the Present Tenses to Indicate the Future 49 WRAPUP Future Technology Bl PRESENT PERFECT “The Present Perfect Tense. ‘The Present Perfect Progressive WRAP UP Have You Exer? 60 7 MODALS Modal Forms 6 Polite: Requests 63 Ability andl Obligation 6 Question Forms»... i 66 ‘The Past of Should, Gould, and Would 7 WRAP UP Role Playing .70 © argnan —fegracin ied Tae of Comers aClass Exercise A: Plurals and Articles a Glass Exereise B: Pronouns 7 lass Exercise C: Present and Past Tenses 2 Ia Glass Exercise D: Past and Present Perfect Tenses Glass Exercise E: Question and Negative Forms... 74 REVIEW QUESTION FORMS Question Words 8 Present and Past Tenses, ‘ ee cede Tenses and Modals oe Wt Short Answers . veceeneee at te OO WRAPUP Question Game oe al COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES Adjectives 82 Adverbs eee on Equality: Ay... As / The Same As : 85 WRAPUP Compare tums 6a «ff 88 CONDITIONALS Possible Present and Future ie 80 Unlikely Present 90 Impossible Past. 92 WRAPUP IFT Could . 5 COMBINING SENTENCES Sentence Types sai : 96 Connecting Ideas in Compotnd Sentences one 98 Connecting Ideas in Complex Sentences 7 Common Sentence Errors: Fragments and Rumn-Ons 2 +98 PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALIZATION Common Pinetustion Marks. 102 Capitalization 104 Quotations. 105 WRAP UP Antobiographical Letter 107 CHOOSING THE RIGHT WORD ‘Commonly Confused Prepositions «0.26... : 108 Commonly Confused Words eae : : coe WORD FORM Recognizing Passive Forms 47 Choosing -ing or-ed voce I 1g WRAPUP Edit a Letter = 121 Class Exercise A: Questions... : een Glass Exercise B: Comparatives and Superlatives... 200 e cece vB Class Exercise C: Conditionals = ceeeeeee BB Glass Exercise D: Combining Sentences, Punctuation, and Capitalization... 133 Class Exercise E: Word Choice and Word Form . ; i 21 Appendis 1: hyegular Verb List. Seep aeaneceatd a 125 Appendix 2: Identify the Past Perfect Tense... 137 Appendix 3: Spelling and Grammar Loy ete ad 168) Index eveiie 1B wv ‘Table of Contents {© tergman — Roproetion probitWrite the singular or plural form of each noun below: Example: toy tae SGU PLURAL eR PLURAL 1 box a ‘women 2 lady Se child ae polities {8 life # foot He church > person Ee company & ‘coth Be course a habbies Me news Using Singular and Plural Forms Generally, if there is more than one of something, you use the plural form. However, sometimes the correct form is not obvious. Review the following rules. Singular + Use the singular form of nouns that follow each and every. ach js impertant.| study Engih everyday * Use the singular form of adjectives. Only the final noun should have a plaral form: Sie has beauifl diamond earings. Be careful—sometimes nouns act as adjectives. right dollars. BUT ‘She has a twenly-dollar coat. Dalfaris a novn ad kes ans Dolla is aetng as un adjective to desrbe coat Plural + Use the plural form after the expression one of the... That was one of the best shows I've ever seen, Underline the appropriate nouns or adjectives below. Example: Each isiudent / students} should read the novel. 2+ Each (generation / generations) has unique characteristics. Douglas Coupland ‘wrote one of his (best / bests) (novel / novels) about his generation. Several (tough / toughs) (critic /caitics) liked Coupland’s book Generation X. ‘The book discusses the (lifes / lives) of people wha were born between 1961 and 1979. ‘UNIT Nos, rice, ana Detarninets (© terpran~egredcin rid