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Exercises Image Use Accessibility features of the web version of this resource Other file formats available Known accessibility issues and areas for improvement Available Formats Tips for Using This Textbook Webbook vs. All Other Formats 1.0 What do Verbs Do? Review of Verbs 2.0 Verb Forms: Participles, Gerunds and Infinitives 1.0 What is a Verb Tense? What are Verb Tenses Used For? 2.0 Language and Culture 3.0 Western Culture and Aristotle’s Ideas of Essence and of Time 1.0 Introduction 2.0 The Simple Tense and Time 3.0 The Simple Present Tense 4.0 The Simple Past Tense 5.0 The Simple Future Tense 1.0 Introduction 1.1 How do We Use the Continuous Tense? 2.0 Compare: Simple and Continuous Verb Tenses 3.0 Using the Present Continuous Tense to Talk about the Future 4.0 How to Write Continuous Verb Forms 5.0 Past Continuous and Future Continuous 6.0 Writing Past, Present and Future Forms of the Continuous Tense 7.0 Comparing Continuous and Simple Tense Verbs 1.0 The Perfect and Perfect Continuous Tenses Compared 2.0 How to Write the Perfect Tense 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Past, Present and Future Perfect Tenses 3.0 Using Time Words and Phrases with the Perfect Tense 4.0 Other Adverbs Used with the Perfect Tense 1.0 How to Write the Perfect Continuous Verb Tenses 1.0 Comparison with the Regular Perfect Tense 2.0 The Perfect Continuous Tenses Connects Two Points of Time, Actions or Situations 3.0 Non-Action Verbs 4.0 Adverbs of Frequency 1.0 Past 2.0 Present 3.0 Future 4.0 Perfect Continuous Tense 1.0 Length of Time 2.0 Continuous vs. Repeated Action 3.0 Time Limits 4.0 Two Ways of Expressing Time and Action: Point in Time vs Period of Time 1.0 Cause/Effect Relationship 2.0 Perfect Tenses for Cause and Effect 1.0 Language and Culture: High-Context vs. Low-Context (Explicit) Languages 2.0 The Parts of a Sentence 3.0 Sentences that Describe the Subject (Someone, Something, a Place, an Animal, or an Idea) 4.0 Five Sentence Patterns 5.0 Adding to the Sentence Frame 6.0 Introduction to Combining Clauses into Compound and Complex Sentences with Adverb Clauses) 1.0 Compound Sentences: Joining Two Independent Clauses 2.0 Complex Sentences: Joining an Independent Clause to a Dependent Clause 1.0 Causes, Effects, and Control 2.0 Format: How to Write Conditionals: Independent and Dependent Clauses 3.0 Summary of Cause/Effect in Conditionals 4.0 Details: The Four Types of Conditionals 1.0 Real or Realistic Actions or Situations 2.0 Unrealistic or Impossible Situations 1.0 Structure 2.0 Comparatives for Showing Similarities and Differences 1.0 Introduction: What is a Modal? 2.0 Aspects of Modals 3.0 Modal Functions 4.0 How Do We Write Modals?: Two Forms 5.0 Verb Tenses and Modals 6.0 Other Aspects of Modals 7.0 Writing the Modal Forms 8.0 Postlude 1.0 Introduction to the Social Function of Modals 2.0 Simple Modals 3.0 Summary List of Modals of Social Interaction: Social Interactions and Negotiations 4.0 Categories of the Social Function of Modals 5.0 Phrasal Modals: An Introduction 1.0 Descriptive Function of Modals: Introduction 2.0 Descriptions from the Speaker’s Point of View (Interpretation) 3.0 Introduction to Modals of Probability (Predictions or Certainty) 4.0 Modals of Ability 5.0 Hypothetical Conditionals: Conditions in Abnormal or Hypothetical (Imaginary) Situations 6.0 Habits in the Past: Used To 1.0 Verb Tenses in Phrasal Modals of Social Obligation or Practical Necessity 2.0 Simple Modals 1.0 What do Gerunds and Infinitives Do? 2.0 Gerunds 3.0 Infinitives 4.0 Using Gerunds and Infinitives for the Past, Present, and Future and for Realistic and Unrealistic Situations 5.0 Transforming Nouns into Gerunds and Infinitives I. Verbs: Introduction and Review III. The Simple Tense IV. Continuous Tense: Expansion and Exercises I. Introduction and Overview II. Using the Perfect Tense for Time III. The Perfect Continuous Tense V. Action and Time in the Perfect Continuous Tenses: Past, Present and Future VI. Perfect Continuous Tense: In-Depth Comparison with Other Tenses VII. Cause-Effect II. Building Compound and Complex Sentences II. The Four Conditionals: Details and Exercises I. Introduction to Comparatives II. Social Function of Modals: Modals for Social Interaction and Engagement III. Descriptive/Interpretive Function of Modals: Descriptions from the Speaker’s Point of View (Opinion) I. Gerunds and Infinitives: Introduction and Review (All About Gerunds and Infinitives) 1.0 Non-Active Verbs (Verbs of ‘Being’) 2.0 Verbs with Both Active and Non-Active/Unlimited Meanings (Sometimes with Difference in Meaning) 1.0 Gerunds 2.0 Infinitives ChatGPT Version (Edited by the Author)
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