Table of contents : Cover Contents Introduction Section one The fundamentals of grammar General review of tenses and verb forms Modal auxiliary verbs Introduction to the verb forms of English The 'simple' verb forms The 'progressive' verb forms The 'perfect' verb forms Conditional sentences The passive voice Relative clauses Verb patterns with -ing forms, infinitives, and 'that' clauses Particples and gerunds The position of adverbs Reported speech Section two Sentence structure and synthesis Adjectival clauses Adverbial clauses Noun clauses Non-finite clauses (adjectival, adverbial and noun) Section three Vocabulary work Words Phrasal and prepositonal verbs Compound words derived from phrasal verbs Section four Composition work Appendix: Notes on clauses Key to exercises Construction of verb forms in English Back Cover