1 Short answers (Yes,it is;No,it isn't,etc.) 1
2 ONE and SOME 4
3 Agreements and disagreements with affirmtive statements 6
4 Agreements and disagreements with negative statements 9
5 'MADE OF' construction 11
6 'COME FROM' construction 13
7 Simple present third person singular and plural 15
8 Simple present,continuous present,immediate future,'going to' future 20
9 Quantities 22
10 Restrictive adverbial-adjectival phrases 25
11 Adjectives of appreciation or criticism 28
12 Pure future statements as answers to 'Conditional' questions 31
13 Invitations:'WOULD YOU LIKE TO?' 34
14 Commands and requests 37
15 Asking permission 40
16 Refusals to comply with commands or requests (because the student does not want to do so) 43
17 Past tenses 45
18 Prepositions,etc.denoting time 48
19 Prepositions of place 51
20 Direct questions 54
21 Questions (to which the answers are yes or no) 56
22 Short answers extended 58
23 Differentiating betwene 'WOULD YOU LIKE TO?' and 'DO YOU LIKEING?' 61
24 Three ways of expressing preference 64
25 Re-assuring answers to apologies 66
26 Question tags 68
27 Question tags to negative statements 72
28 Question tags with 'WILL' and 'WON't' 73
29 Exclamations 76
30 Completing sentences of contrast 80
31 Verbs followed by the infinitive 82
32 Verbs followed by the gerund 84
33 Answers that can be made when extraordinary things are pointed out 86
34 Protesting answers to unjust commands 88
35 Advice as to obligations 92
36 Answers to 'WHY' questions - 'BECAUSE' 95
37 Answers with final prepositions 96
38 Prepositions following verbs and verbal phrases 98
39 Verbs followed by 'HOW TO' 102
40 Observatioons of probability 104
41 SHOULDN'T HAVE and NEEDN'T HAVE 106
42 Answers to 'WHICH' questions 107
43 Slightly doubtful answers 110
44 Future possibilities 113
45 Answers about habitual actions in the past 118
46 Indirect commands 119
47 THAT'S WHYand THAT AS WHY 122
48 Moral obligations which are contrary to the actuality 124
49 'I WISH' construction 126
50 'Reserved' intonation,indicating that the speaker is talking of a part,not the whole,of a class of things,or that he wishes to correct exaggeration 128
51 Echoed questions 131
52 Repeated and emphatic questions which denote incredulity 133
53 'LIKELY' construction 135
54 Verbs denoting sense impressions 137
APPENDIX 141
Ⅰ WANT x object x infinitive 141
Ⅱ Distinguish between:'WHO's THAT?','WHOSE IS THAT?' and 'WHOSE (noun) IS THAT?' 141
Ⅲ Adjective - noun rhythm 142
Ⅳ Positions of 'ONLY' and varying intonations 144
Ⅴ Movable stresses 146
Ⅵ 'ANY' with different intonations 147
Ⅶ Two kinds of 'BECAUSE' clause 148