Real Grammar

Introduction

How to Use This Book

Timelines

Descriptive Grammar

About Answers

Basic Building Blocks

Constructing Basic Sentences

Word Order

Do

Don't

Adding a Place

Adding a Time

Adding a Place and Time

Where and When

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Basic Verbs

Be

Have

Be (Am, Are, Is)

Adding S to Verbs

Who and What

Go

Get

One or More

A/An

Adding S to Nouns

Things We Sometimes Don't Count

Things We Don't Count

Some and Any

Here and There

The

Names

Other Basic Words

's

Her, His, Its, My, Our, Their, Your

Hers, His, Its, Mine, Ours, Theirs, Yours

One

Simplifying Sentences

And

Or

But

Review of Basic Building Blocks

Quiz

Verb Forms

Tenses

Introduction to Verb Forms

Present Form

Past Form

Unfinished Actions

-ing Form

Unfinished in the Past

-ing Form as a Subject

-ing Form as an Object

Go + -ing Form

Results of Actions

-en Form

Adding a Length of Time

Ever and Never

Already and Yet

Results of Actions 2

Have Got / Have

Have Done / Have to Do

Adding To

To or -ing?

Results in the Past

Shifting Focus

Be + -en Form

With Other Sentence Patterns

Get + -en Form

Feelings

Putting It Together

Have + Been + -ing

Had + Been + -ing

Review of Verb Forms

Examples

Quiz

Options and Possibilities

The Verbs

The Past Form Isn't Just for the Past

Can / Could

Real or Hypothetical?

Could Have Done

Will

Would

Will Be Doing

Will Have Done

Would Like

Would Have Done

Shall

Should

Should Have Done

Ought

May

Might

May Have Done / Might Have Done

Permission: Can, Could and May

Must

Must Have Done

Must / Have To

Mustn't / Don't Have To

Making Deductions

Had Better

If

Would Have ... If ...

If: Polite Expressions

Review of Options and Possibilities

Examples

Quiz

Future and Past

Ways of Talking About the Future

Am/Are/Is + -ing Form

Present Form

Will and Be Going To

Which One Should I Use?

Before and After a Time in the Future

Ways of Talking About the Past

Past Form

Have + -en Form

Used To and Would

Which One Should I Use?

Used To / Be Used To

Before and After a Time in the Past

Review of Future and Past

Examples

Quiz

Think and Say

Say

Said About the Past

Said About the Future

Said About Options and Possibilities

Time and Place

Think and Know

Ask

The Meaning

Telling People What to Do

About

Hopes and Wishes

Review of Think and Say

Examples

Quiz

Adding Information

Where and When

Adding a Place

Adding a Time

Who, What, Why and How

Adding a Recipient

To: Adding a Destination

For: Making Connections

By: Adding a Method

With: Adding a Part

Describing Nouns

Of

Adding Information After Nouns

Adjectives

Other Ways to Describe Nouns

Adverbs

Saying Where, When and How

Adding Information to Verbs

Linking and Emphasis

Start, Middle or End?

Saying How Often

Negative Sentences

More Than One Verb

...

And more!