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The Grammar Builder series comprises five books for beginner to upper-intermediate level learners of British English. The books are designed to help learners master key concepts in English grammar easily and quickly. Students who need to take written exams as well as anyone who wishes to write well will find the books useful. Books 1 and 2 are intended for learners who need to acquire the basics of grammar. Books 3 to 5 are for learners who need to strengthen their proficiency in grammar and improve their written English. Key features of the books: a simple but effective three-step approach (error identification, correction, and practice) to help learners master English grammar examples of correct and incorrect usage show how slight differences in expression can result in grammatical errors suitable for use in the classroom and for self-study clear and concise explanations up to three pages of grammar practice in each unit carefully graded exercises with model answers tests to evaluate learner competence Contents UNIT 1.1 Articles: a and an with singular nouns 1.2 Articles: a, an, the with singular nouns 1.3 Articles: the with proper nouns 1.4 Articles: with countable and uncountable nouns UNIT 2 Possessives: apostrophe ( ), apostrophe s ( s), of UNIT 3.1 Personal pronouns as subjects and objects 3,2 Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns 3.3 Demonstrative adjectives and demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those 3.4 Reflexive pronouns as objects 3.5 Reflexive pronouns for emphasis UNIT 4.1 Adjectives: before nouns and after verbs 42 Adjectives: word order, use of comma and and 4.3 Adjectives of comparison 4.4 Adjectives: irregular adjectives, ed and ing endings 4.5 Adjectives of quantity: a few, a little, many, much, some UNIT 5.1 Adverbs of manner 5.2 Adverbs of time and place 5.3 Adverbs of comparison UNIT 6.1 Subject-verb agreement: positive statements 6.2 Subject-verb agreement: negative statements 6.3 Subject-verb agreement: positive questions UNIT 7.1 Present tense: simple and continuous 7.2 Simple past tense: regular an irregular verbs 7.3 Past continuous tense 7.4 Present perfect tense 7.5 Simple future tense 7.6 Future continuous tense UNIT 8.1 Active and passive voice 8.2 Active and passive voice: tense and number UNIT 9 Subject and predicate: finite non-finite verbs UNIT 10 Question tags: isn t, aren t, doesn t, don t UNIT 11.1 Wh-questions 11.2 Wh-questions: who 11.3 Wh-questions: what 11.4 Wh-questions: answering Who and What questions main verbs and the verb to be 11.5 Wh-questions: answering Who and What questions main verbs and the verb to do 11.6 Wh-questions: where and when 11.7 Wh-questions: which and whose 11.8 Wh-questions: how, how many, how much 11.9 Wh-questions: why UNIT 12.1 Modals: can and may 12.2 Modals: must 78 UNIT 13.1 Prepositions of position 13.2 Prepositions of time UNIT 14 Punctuation: apostrophe, comma, exclamation mark, full stop, question mark UNIT 15.1 Direct speech 15.2 Indirect speech UNIT 16.1 Sentence structure: joining two or more sentences with and, but, or 16.2 Sentence structure: relative clauses with who 16.3 Sentence structure: relative clauses with which and that 16.4 Sentence structure: adverbial clauses with because 16.5 Sentence structure: adverbial clauses with when and while 16.6 Sentence structure: noun clauses with who and what 16.7 Sentence structure: adjectival phrases with prepositions 16.8 Sentence structure: adverbial phrases with because of 16.9 Sentence structure: noun phrases with to and ing TEST 1 Units 1 - 5 TEST 2 Units 6 - 11 TEST 3 Units 12 16 TEST 4 TEST 5 TEST 6 Answers