Focus on Grammar: Advanced Level
| The
Focus on Grammar
software program provides extensive
grammar practice through lively reading,
listening, and writing activities.
It is available for student use in the
Language Learning Resource Center at 301
Independence Hall. Users work and move through the different sections at their own pace. The program features contextualized exercises with full reading and listening passages, not just isolated sentences. Learners also use the grammar to express their own ideas in original written passages. Special TOEFL-type review tests ready students for the TOEFL test format. Focus on Grammar provides interactive feedback to guide the learner, and includes pop-up grammar charts, notes, and appendices for easy reference. It also contains record-keeping functions for tracking individual performance. |
| Table
of contents
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| Part
1: The Verb Phrase: Selected Topics - Unit 1: Tense and Time - Unit 2: Certainty and Necessity (Modals) - Unit 3: Contrast and Emphasis (Auxiliaries) - Review Test 1 |
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2: The Noun Phrase: Selected Topics - Unit 4: Non-Count Nouns: Count and Non-Count Use - Unit 5: Definite and Indefinite Articles - Unit 6: Modification of Nouns - Quantifiers - Review Test 2 |
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3: Passive Voice - Unit 8: The Passive: Review and Expansion - Unit 9: Reporting Ideas and Facts with Passives - Review Test 3 |
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4: Gerunds and Infinitives - Unit 10: Gerunds - Unit 11: Infinitives - Review Test 4 |
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5: Adverbials and Discourse Connectors - Unit 12: Adverb Clauses - Unit 13: Adverbials: Viewpoint, Focus, and Negative - Unit 14: Other Discourse Connectors - Unit 15: Adverbial Modifying Phrases - Review Test 5 |
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6: Adjective Clauses - Unit 16: Adjective Clauses: Review and Expansion - Unit 17: Adjective Clauses with Quantifiers; Adjectival Modifying Phrases - Review Test 6 |
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7: Noun Clauses: Subject and Objects - Unit 18: Noun Clauses: Subject and Objects - Unit 19: Complementation - Review Test 7 |
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8: Nouns & Articles - Unit 20: Unreal Conditionals and Other Ways to Express Unreality - Unit 21: Inverted and Implied Conditionals; Subjunctive in Noun Clauses - Review Test 8 |
