本书是美国汤姆森学习出版集团献给本世纪的一大礼物。作者Diane Larsen-Freeman以独特的视角,把语法的作用从FORM、MEANING和USE三个不同维度以全新的理念,深入浅出地加以解释,使学生更深刻地理解语法、提高他们的语言分析能力;使教师打破传统的语法,发展全新的、建立在FORM、MEANING和USE上的三维语法教学法。
本书使教师在教语法时更轻松、更有效、更清晰;丰富的练习、真实的交际活动使学生对原以为枯燥的语法从不同维度理解的更加深刻。
本书特点:练习每一种语法结构的形式、意义和运用;
情境化和“亲读者”的语法解释有助于学生理解英文;
题材丰富的交流活动帮助学生练习语法,学会流畅沟通,学会自我表达,从而展现自己的个性;
引人入胜的听力活动加深学生对英语语法结构的理解。

Unit 1 Overview of the English verb System Time and Tense
Unit 2 Overview of the English Verb System Aspect
Unit 3 Adverbial Phrases and Clauses
Unit 4 Passive Verbs
Unit 5 One-Word and Phrasal Modals
Unit 6 Infinitives
Unit 7 Gerunds
Unit 8 Intensifiers and Degree Complements
Unit 9 Modifying Noun Phrases Adjectives and Participles
Unit 10 Comparatives
Unit 11 Connectors
Unit 12 Relative Clauses
Unit 13 Present Time Frame
Unit 14 Present Perfect
Unit 15 Future Time
Unit 16 Modals of Prediction and Inference
Unit 17 Hypotheticas Statements
Unit 18 Sensory Verbs,Causative Verbs,and Verbs That Take Subjunctive
Exercises for the TOEFL Test,Unit s16-18
Unit 19 Articles in Discourse
Unit 20 Demonstratives in Discourse
Exercises for the TOEFL Test,Unit s19-20
Unit 21 Possessives
Unit 22 Quantifiers and Collective Nouns
Exercises for the TOEFL Test,Unit s21-22
Unit 23 Past Time Frame:Using Adverbs and Aspect to Indicate Time Relaionships
Unit 24 Modals in Past Time
Unit 25 Reported Speech
Exercises for the TOEFL Test,Unit s23-25
APPENDICES A-1