Teaching English grammar : what to teach and how to teach it / Jim Scrivener.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Key grammatical terminology -- The sounds of British Einglish -- 1 Singular and plural -- 2 Countable and uncountable nouns -- 3 Containers, quantities and pieces -- 4 Subject and object pronouns -- 5 Reflexive pronouns -- 6 Possessives -- 7 This, that, these, those -- 8 Articles -- 9 Some and any -- 10 Much, many, a lot of, lots of, plentv of, a great deal of -- 11 Few and a few: little and a little -- 12 Other quantifiers -- 13 Adjective order -- 14 Comparatives -- 15 Superlatives -- 16 Comparisons: as...as, not as...as, the same as, like -- 17 Comparisons: too and enough -- 18 Prepositions of place -- 19 Prepositions of movement -- 20 Prepositions of time -- 21 Have and have got -- 22 Present simple: be -- 23 Present simple: affirmative -- 24 Present simple: negative -- 25 Present simple: questions -- 26 Imperatives -- 27 Adverbs of frequency -- 28 Present progressive: affirmative ('now' meaning) -- 29 Present progressive: negative and questions -- 30 Present progressive contrasted with present simple -- 31 Past simple: be -- 32 Past simple: regular verbs -- 33 Past simple: irregular verbs -- 34 Past simple: questions and short answers -- 35 Past simple: negative -- 36 Past progressive: 'in progress' -- 37 Past progressive: 'interrupted actions' -- 38 Present perfect: Have you ever...? -- 39 Present perfect: just

40 Present perfect: 'up to now' -- 41 Time words: already, yet and always -- 42 Time words: for and since -- 43 Present perfect progressive -- 44 Past perfect simple -- 45 Past perfect progressive -- 46 Will -- 47 Going to -- 48 Will contrasted with going to -- 49 Present progressive: 'future arrangements' -- 50 Future progressive and future perfect -- 51 Requests, orders, offers, permission: can, could, will, would, may, might -- 52 Ability: can, can't, could, couldn't, be able to -- 53 Obligation and compulsion: must, have to, should, ought -- 54 Possibility and certainty: may, might, could, must, must have, can't, can't have -- 55 Modal verbs: an overview -- 56 Zero conditional -- 57 First conditional -- 58 Second conditional -- 59 Third conditional -- 60 Passives -- 61 Causatives -- 62 Multi-word verbs -- 63 Direct and reported speech -- 64 Used to -- 65 Question tags -- 66 Relative pronouns and relative clauses -- 67 Defining and non-defining relative clauses -- 68 'd better / had better -- 69 Two-verb structures: -ing or infinitive? -- 70 In case.