Table of Contents

          Acknowledgments	    iv		
	
          Introduction	    v

          To the Teacher	    vii	

UNIT I:  THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ENGLISH 
	
          Chapter 1.  Words	    3
 
          Chapter 2. Groups of Words	    17

UNIT II:  THE VERB
  
          Chapter 3.  The Auxiliary System	    39

          Chapter 4.  The Verb Tense System	    46

          Chapter 5.  The Negation System	    109

          Chapter 6.  The Modal System	    119

          Chapter 7.  The Question System	    136

UNIT III:  THE NOUN

          Chapter 8:  Subjects and Objects	    163

          Chapter 9:  The Pronoun System	    195

          Chapter 10:  The Determiner System	    213

          Chapter 11:  The Adjective System	    241

UNIT IV:  THE ADVERB

          Chapter 12:  The Adverbial System	    269

          Chapter 13:  The Preposition and Particle Systems	    286

UNIT V:  SENTENCE COMBINING

          Chapter 14:  The Coordination and Subordination System	    317

          Chapter 15:  The Complement System	    340

APPENDIXES

          Answer Key to Exercises	    379

          Irregular Verbs	    470

          Separable and Nonseparable Phrasal Verbs	    471
	
          Index	    473

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