Canadian Grammar Spectrum is a series of grammar reference and practice books for ESL students. The books are set up in two-page spreads: a brief grammar explanation followed by exercises. The books are suitable as in-class resources, homework tools, or self-study aids.
Sentences
Linking verbs
Compound and complex sentences
Tenses
Present perfect or simple past?
Past perfect or simple past?
Future
Modal verbs
Complex modals
Modals of prediction, willingness, habits, and preferences
Modals of deduction,
obligation, and advice
Negatives and questions
Negatives and questions
Negative questions and question tags
Negative words
Question words
Other question types
The passive
Passives with modals, infinitives, and gerunds
Passives with by-phrases and
get
Nouns and articles
Possessive and compound nouns
Articles and nouns in speech
Determiners and quantifiers
All and both, half and whole, each and every, either and neither
(A) few and (a) little, fewer/fewest and less/least, and other
quantifiers
Pronouns and substitution
Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns
Empty subjects it and there
Substitution: one and ones, so and do so
Ellipsis
Adjectives and adverbs
Participle adjectives, compound adjectives, and adjectives as nouns
Adverbs of
degree, manner, viewpoint, and comment
Equatives, comparatives, and superlatives
Prepositions
Prepositions of movement and place: from, across, along, etc.
Prepositions used for connections or exceptions
Phrasal verbs
Infinitives and gerunds
Complex
infinitives and gerunds
Adjectives, nouns, and pronouns with infinitives and gerunds
Reporting
Reporting statements and questions
Reporting orders, requests, advice, and opinions
Noun clauses
Noun clauses with adjectives, the subjunctive, and should
Uses of
noun clauses
Relative clauses
Reduced relative clauses
Relative clauses with possessives, pronouns, and prepositions
Relative clauses with where, what, whatever, etc.
Conditionals
Mixed conditionals; order and punctuation in conditionals
Only if, even if,
unless, whether, if so, etc.
Adverbial clauses
Purpose clauses and result clauses
Contrast clauses and reduced adverbial clauses
Connectors and focus structures
Adding and contrasting connectors
Result and time connectors; listing connectors
Focus
structures
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George Yule has worked as an English teacher in Britain, Canada, Jamaica, and Saudi Arabia. He has also taught Applied Linguistics in the Universities of Edinburgh, Hawaii, Louisiana State, and Minnesota.
