Collins Cobuild

Collins
COBUILD Active English Grammar
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CONTENTS
List of Units
Units 1–102
Glossary of Grammar Terms
Irregular Verb Tables

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LIST OF UNITS
BASIC SENTENCE STRUCTURE
1 Clauses and sentences
2 The noun group
3 The verb group
4 The imperative and ‘let’
QUESTIONS
5 Questions
6 ‘Wh’- questions
7 Question tags: forms
8 Question tags: uses
9 Indirect questions
10 Short answers
NEGATIVES
11 Sentences with ‘not’
12 Negative words
NOUNS
13 Count nouns
14 Singular and plural: singular, plural and collective nouns

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15 Uncount nouns
PRONOUNS AND POSSESSIVES
16 Personal pronouns
17 Impersonal subject ‘it’
18 Impersonal subject ‘there’
19 Demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those, one, ones
20 Reflexive pronouns
21 Indefinite pronouns
22 Possession
DETERMINERS
23 Determiners
24 Main uses of ‘the’
25 Other uses of ‘the’
26 ‘A’ and ‘an’
27 All, most, no, none
28 Both, either, neither
29 Quantity 1: much, little, many, few, more, less, fewer
30 Quantity 2: some, any, another, other, each, every
ADJECTIVES
31 Position of adjectives
32 Order of adjectives

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33 Adjectives with ‘to’-infinitive or ‘that’- clauses
34 ‘-ing’ and ‘-ed’ adjectives
COMPARISON
35 Comparison: basic forms
36 Comparison: uses
37 Other ways of comparing
ADVERBIALS
38 Adverbials
39 Adverbials of manner
40 Adverbials of time
41 Frequency and probability
42 Adverbials of duration: already, yet, still
43 Adverbials of degree