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| SECTION ONE WORDS AND PHRASES |
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1-1 Give Me a Hand: Body Parts |
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1-2 Appearances Count: Clothing Words |
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1-3 How's the Weather?: Weather Words |
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1-4 World of Nature: Birds and Bees |
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1-5 Yum, Yum: Food and Drink |
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1-6 Pardon Me, Do You Have the Time?: Telling Time |
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1-7 Shape Up: Shapes and Lines |
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1-8 Day Before Yesterday: Time Expressions |
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1-9 He's Worth a Million Bucks: Money Words |
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1-10 Bingo: Sports and Recreations |
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1-11 Silver Blades: Sports and Recreations |
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1-12 It's a Homer: Sports and Recreations |
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1-13 Word Search: More Sports and Recreations |
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1-14 No Left Turn: Road Signs |
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1-15 Count Me In: Numbers |
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1-16 The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: Jobs and Professions |
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1-17 Yes, Your Honor: More Jobs and Professions |
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1-18 Leaky Pipe: Still More Jobs and Professions |
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1-19 Moon Walk: More Career Choices |
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1-20 All in the Family: Family Words |
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1-21 Map Rap: Geography Words |
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1-22 Double Trouble: Homonyms |
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1-23 My Aching Head: More Homonyms |
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1-24 Slim Ate Eight Hamburgers: Homophones |
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1-25 Another Way of Saying This: Synonyms |
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1-26 You Got Me Wrong: Antonyms |
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1-27 Things Aren't What They Seem: Idiom Literalized |
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1-28 What Did You Say?: Idiom and Meaning |
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1-29 A Yellow Blueblood: Color Idiom |
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1-30 It's a Piece of Cake: Partitives |
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1-31 Blind as a Bat: Animal Idiom |
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1-32 Don't Put Your Foot in Your Mouth: The Put Family |
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1-33 Don't Pull My Leg: Body Idiom |
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1-34 It Smells Fishy: Fish Idiom |
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1-35 As I Always Say: Everyday Idioms |
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1-36 Fit as a Fiddle: Common Comparisons |
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1-37 Break Down the Door: Meanings of Break |
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1-38 Come In, Please: Meanings of Come |
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1-39 Don't Do Me In: Meanings of Do |
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1-40 Don't Get in Trouble: Meanings of Get |
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1-41 I'd Like to Take Her Out: Separable Verbs |
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1-42 The Robber Got In: Non-Separable Verbs |
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1-43 I Want to Travel, But I Can't Stand Flying: Verbs with Infinitives and Gerunds |
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1-44 Pop the Question: Boy and Girl Talk |
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1-45 Potpourri: Miscellaneous Slang |
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1-46 Stone Soup: More Miscellaneous Slang |
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1-47 Besides, I Want to Sit Beside You: Besides, Beside |
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1-48 Sometimes They Think They're in Love: Sometimes, Sometime |
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| SECTION TWO GRAMMAR |
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2-1 What's Its Name: Nouns |
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2-2 Of Mice and Men: Noun Plurals |
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2-3 My Boss's Wife: Possessive Nouns |
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2-4 Run, Dick, Run: Basic Verbs |
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2-5 Hop, Skip, Jump: More Basic Verbs |
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2-6 Everybody Sing: Still More Basic Verbs |
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2-7 Slim Is Slim: Basic Adjectives |
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2-8 Fat Cat: Adjective-Noun Review |
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2-9 Thick Stick: Additional Noun-Adjective Review |
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2-10 Very Well Done: Descriptive Adverbs |
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2-11 Slim Sometimes Studies: Frequency Adverbs |
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2-12 Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire: Basic Prepositions |
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2-13 On and Off: More Basic Prepositions |
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2-14 This and That: Demonstrative Pronouns |
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2-15 You and Me: Personal Pronouns |
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2-16 A Boy, an Egg, and the Man in the Moon: Articles |
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2-17 A, An, The: More Articles |
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2-18 How Many Words Are There in Grandmother?: Parts-of-Speech Review |
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2-19 I'm a Good Egg: Subject and Verb Agreement--Be |
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2-20 To Be or Not to Be: Negative Agreement--Be |
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2-21 Stacy Has a Guy: Subject and Verb Agreement-Have |
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2-22 The Money Tree: Some Indefinite Pronouns |
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2-23 Space Savers: Pronoun Contractions |
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2-24 Guys Like Gals: Subject and Verb Agreement--Action Verbs |
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2-25 To Have or Have Not: Negative Agreement--Present Action Verbs |
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2-26 Is Slim a Big Cheese?: Questions and Short Answers |
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2-27 Where Is Slim?: Question Words with to Be |
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2-28 When Does Class Start?: Question Words with Action Verbs |
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2-29 What Do You Think?: Who and What as Subject and Object |
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2-30 Quiz Kids Only: Review of Question Patterns |
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2-31 A Box of Chocolates and a Carton of Eggs: Subject and Verb Agreement-Intervening Phrases |
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2-32 Will You, Won't You?: Future Tense--Will |
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2-33 I'm Going to Be Your Girlfriend: Future Tense--Be Going |
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2-34 What's He Doing?: Present Progressive, Yes/No, and Information Questions and Answers |
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2-35 Stranger Than Fiction: Negative Forms of Present and Present Progressive |
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2-36 I Love You: Progressive and Non-Progressive Verbs |
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2-37 Either/Or: Verbs That Are Both Progressive and Non-Progressive |
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2-38 The Roast Is Smelling Good: More Verbs That Are Both Progressive and Non-Progressive |
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2-39 No Numbers in This One: Irregular Verbs |
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2-40 Hide and Seek: More Irregular Verbs |
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2-41 Add-ons: More Practice with Irregular Verbs |
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2-42 Did You Ever See a Laughing Hyena?: Past Tense-Ever and Never |
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2-43 Were You Out with a Cute Chick Last Night?: Past Tense Questions and Answers |
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2-44 Did You, Didn't You?: More Past Tense Questions and Answers |
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2-45 I Saw a Laughing Hyena in My Yard Yesterday: Past and Present Perfect |
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2-46 I Haven't Seen You for Ages: Present Perfect--For or Since |
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2-47 Slim Had Spent All His Money: Past Perfect |
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2-48 Where Was Martin When the Lights Went Out?: Past Progressive |
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2-49 What'll You Be Doing Tonight?: Future Progressive |
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2-50 He'd Been Working All Day: Present and Past Perfect Progressive |
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2-51 Three Ugly Monsters: Comparison of Adjectives--One Syllable, Three Syllables, Y Endings |
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2-52 The "Worstest" Pie: Irregularly Compared Adjectives, Double Comparatives, and Superlatives |
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2-53 As Easy as Pie: Comparisons with As |
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2-54 A Sitting Duck: Present Participles as Adjectives |
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2-55 The Two-Headed Man: Noun Plus Ed as Adjective |
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2-56 A Worried Mom: More Noun-Plus-Ed Adjectives |
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2-57 A Broken Heart: Past Participles as Adjectives |
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2-58 Who Came Lately: Adjectives and Adverbs |
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2-59 Who Drives "Fastlier": Comparison of Adverbs |
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2-60 Dad Is Tied Up at the Office: Present and Past Passive |
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2-61 By and By: The Use of By in the Passive |
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2-62 He'll Be Spread Too Thin: Future and Present Perfect Passive |
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2-63 I "Oughta" Go Now: Modal Auxiliaries |
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2-64 He Must Have Forgotten: Three Uses of Must |
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2-65 If the Cat's Away, the Mice Will Play: Present-Future Conditional Pattern |
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2-66 A Land of Milk and Honey: More Conditional Patterns |
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2-67 Which Doctor?: Conditional Review |
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2-68 Pie in the Sky: Present Wishes |
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2-69 A Few Dollars and a Little Cash: Count and Non-Count Nouns |
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| SECTION THREE STRUCTURE |
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3-1 Ouch: One-Word Sentences |
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3-2 Love Him or Leave Him: Imperative Sentences |
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3-3 The Hyena Laughed: Subject and Verb Sentences |
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3-4 The Cat Is Fat: Subject, Be, Adjective |
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3-5 Mo Is a Monster: Subject, Be, Noun |
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3-6 Magic Wheel: Subject, Verb, Object |
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3-7 They Fight at Night: Subject, Verb, Phrase |
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3-8 A Girl and a Car: Subject, Verb, Object, Adjectival Modifier |
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3-9 Mad Mary Drove Her Car Into a Brick Wall: Subject, Verb, Object, Adverbial Modifier |
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3-10 Here and There: Verb-Subject Word Order |
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3-11 I Gave My Mother to the Pencil: Indirect Objects |
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3-12 I'd Rather Give Than Take: More Practice with Indirect Objects |
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3-13 I'd Rather Have a Cola: Expressing Preference |
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3-14 The Most Important Person in the World: Tag Questions with Auxiliaries |
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3-15 Me, Too: Affirmative Agreement |
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3-16 Count Me In: More Affirmative Agreement |
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3-17 Me Neither: Negative Agreement |
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3-18 You're Not Going to Buy That Hat, Are You?: More Negative Agreement |
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3-19 Bow-Wow: Embedded Questions |
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3-20 He's Too Sick to Go to School: Too and Enough with Infinitives |
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3-21 He Made Me Do It: Causatives--Make, Get |
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3-22 Let Me Be: Causatives--Have, Let |
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3-23 What's His Name?: Noun Clauses as Subjects |
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3-24 I Don't Know Why I Love You: Noun Clauses as Objects |
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3-25 I Think So: So Replacing Noun Clauses |
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3-26 Out of This World: Compound Sentences |
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3-27 Slim's Tall, But Stacy Isn't: Compound Sentences--Reversals |
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3-28 Until You Came: Complex Sentences--Subordinating Conjunctions |
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3-29 The Wonderful World of the Future: Complex Sentences--Present Future Pattern |
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3-30 Which Comes First?: Complex Sentences with Time Clauses |
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3-31 I'd Really Like to: Complex Sentences with Incomplete Infinitives |
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3-32 Lila Has a Car: Complex Sentences with Adjective Clauses |
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3-33 A Sad Cat: Complex Sentences with Medial Adjective Clauses |
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3-34 Do We Really Want That?: Complex Sentences--The Use of That in Adjective Clauses |
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3-35 Why Is Leona's Hair Standing on End?: Complex Sentences-Because |
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3-36 "Don't Buy That Tie": Reported Speech--Not Plus Infinitive |
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3-37 "I'm Drowning": Reported Speech--Present Tense |
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3-38 "I Cried Last Night": Reported Speech--Past Tense |
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3-39 "I Won't Hurt You": Reported Speech--Future Tense |
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3-40 "That's Silly": Reported Speech--Assorted Tenses |
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| SECTION FOUR PRONUNCIATION |
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4-1 Red Head /e/: Sounds and Symbols |
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4-2 A Bad Bed: Short /a/ and /e/ |
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4-3 A Bat in a Vat: /b/ and /v/ |
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4-4 I Hope You Enjoy Your Flight: /l/ and /r/ |
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4-5 Mr. Schick Is Very Sick: si and shi |
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4-6 Some Thumb: /s/ and /th/ |
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4-7 Two Mouths, Two Teeth: /th/ and /th/ |
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4-8 "The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly in the Plain": Long /a/ |
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4-9 The Many Faces of Eve: Long /e/ |
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4-10 Our Team's Ahead: Long and Short /e/ Sounds |
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4-11 Hi, I Want to Buy a Tie: Long /e/ |
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4-12 Hello, Joe, What Do You Know?: Long /o/ |
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4-13 Do You Know Joe Blow?: Ow as in Long /o/ |
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4-14 A Brown Owl: Ow as /ou/ or /o/ |
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4-15 Mr. Brown Went to Town: The Sounds of Ow and Ou |
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4-16 He Can't Get His Foot in the Boot: Long and Short /oo/ |
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4-17 Rice Is Nice: Soft c Sound /s/ |
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4-18 Carl Can't Come: Hard c Sound /k/ |
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4-19 Get Some Knowledge in College: Soft and Hard G Sounds |
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4-20 A Bear in the Air: R-controlled Vowels |
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4-21 A Ghastly Ghost: Silent Letters |
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4-22 "It's Rough," She Said with a Cough as She Sat on the Bough: Like and Unlike Pronunciations |
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4-23 Please Sneeze: Same Pronunciation, Different Spellings |
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4-24 The Rabbit Habit: A Short Vowel Pattern |
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4-25 I Hate Your Hat: Magic E |
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4-26 People Live Their Lives: Pronunciation of Final S as /s/ or /z/ |
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4-27 Huh?: /d/ in Unaccented Syllables |
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4-28 We Smiled, Talked, and Waited: Three Pronunciations of ed |
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4-29 Who'll Be at the Party?: Question Words Contracted with Verbs |
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| SECTION FIVE SOCIAL PHRASES |
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5-1 Hi, I'm Rosa: Making Friends |
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5-2 How Are You Doing?: Assorted Answers |
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5-3 How About a Soda?: Making Suggestions |
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5-4 Happy Talk: Looking Forward To |
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5-5 Over Easy: Restaurant Talk |
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5-6 How About You?: Assorted Meanings |
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5-7 What to Say When: Assorted Social Phrases |
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5-8 I Love Your Sweater: Clothes Compliments |
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5-9 That's Very Sweet of You: Words of Praise |
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5-10 May I Call You Tonight?: Requests and Permission |
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5-11 I'm Sorry, I Didn't Catch That: Asking People to Repeat |
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5-12 Doing Anything Saturday Night?: Planning a Date |
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5-13 May I Show You a Lovely Purple and Orange Dress?: Shopping |
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5-14 Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Apologies |
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