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3-6 Irregular Singular Verbs: Has, Does, Goes ......................... 68
Jump-start your English: Expressions with Do and Make ............. 71
3-7 Like To, Want To, Need To, Would Like .......................... 72
3-8 Simple Present Tense: Negative ................................. 75
3-9 Simple Present Tense: Yes/No Questions .......................... 80
3-10 Simple Present Tense: Yes/No Questions and Information Questions
with Where and What ........................................ 85
Jump-start your English: Common Questions at a Café .............. 88
3-11 Simple Present Tense: Asking Information Questions with When
and What Time ............................................. 88
Jump-start your English: Saying the Time ........................ 89

Chapter 4 USING THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE AND THE IMPERATIVE . . . . . . . . . . . 96
4-1 Be + -ing: the Present Progressive ............................... 97
4-2 Spelling of -ing Verbs ........................................ 102
4-3 Present Progressive: Negative Forms ............................ 103
4-4 Present Progressive: Question Forms ............................ 106
Jump-start your English: Questions at Passport Control ............ 110
4-5 The Simple Present Tense vs. the Present Progressive Tense ........... 111
4-6 Non-Action Verbs Not Used in the Present Progressive .............. 117
Jump-start your English: A Job Interview ........................ 120
4-7 See, Look At, Watch, Hear, and Listen To ....................... 121
4-8 Think About and Think That ................................. 123
4-9 Imperative Sentences ........................................ 125

Chapter 5 NOUNS AND PRONOUNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
5-1 Nouns: Singular and Plural Forms .............................. 130
Jump-start your English: Shopping: At a Shoe Store ............... 133
5-2 Nouns: Irregular Plural Forms ................................. 135
5-3 Adjectives with Nouns ....................................... 138
5-4 Nouns: Subjects and Objects .................................. 141
5-5 Subject Pronouns and Object Pronouns .......................... 143
5-6 Prepositions + Object Pronouns ................................ 146
5-7 Possessive Adjectives and Possessive Pronouns ..................... 149
Jump-start your English: Useful Idioms ......................... 151
5-8 Possessive Nouns ........................................... 153
5-9 Questions with Whose ....................................... 157
5-10 Possessive: Irregular Plural Nouns .............................. 159

Chapter 6 COUNT AND NONCOUNT NOUNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
6-1 Nouns: Count and Noncount .................................. 165
6-2 Using A vs. An ............................................. 169
6-3 Using A/An vs. Some ........................................ 171

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