Na'ther, 235
Non-action (nonprogressive) verbs (know,
want, belong), 17
Noncount nouns (furniture, mail),
313-315,322,324
units of measure with (two cups of tea),
324
used as count nouns (paper vs. a paper),
322
Not (SEE Negatives)
Notas ... as, 259
Noun clauses, 403-4 15
with ifwhether, 409,425
with question words (what he said),
404
reported speech, sequence of tenses, 423with that (Ithink that.. .), 414-415
Nouns:
coundnoncount (chairslfurniture),
313-327
plural forms, 12, 158, 165
possessive (Tom's), 173
as subjects and objects, 159
used as adjectives (a flower garden), 1680
Object pronouns, personal (him, them), 17 1
in adjective clauses (whom I met), 344,347
Objects:
of a preposition (on the desk), 159
of a verb (k reading a book), 166
On, as time preposition (on Monday), 16'3
One of + plural noun, 265
Or, 228
Other, 181,183,186
Ought to, 190,202
P
Parallel structure with and, but, or, 226,
228
with verbs (walks and talks, is walking
and talkin&, 76
Participial adjectives (interested vs.
interesting), 297
Particles, in phrasal verbs (put away), 432
Partitives (SEE Units of measure)
Passive (It was mailed by Bob), 276
by-phrase, use of, 276,282
modal auxiliaries (should be mailed), 288
stative (is married), 292
summary of forms, 277,287
Past habit (I used im live in.. .), 52
Past participles, defined, 32,84
as adjectives (be tired, be surprised), 292
following get (get tired), 300
vs. -ing (interested vs. interestink,,
297
of irregular verbs, list, 33
in passive, 276-277
Past perfect (had leji), 11 2-1 13
Past progressive (was eating), 39
Past time, 24-52 (SEE ALSO Tenses)
Period, 226
Personal pronouns (she, him, they), 17 1
Phrasal verbs, list, 449-452
intransitive, 443
nonseparable, 432
separable, 432
three-word, 446
Phrase, defined, 403h
Plural nouns, 12,158 (SEE ALSO Singular
and plural)
Polite questions using modals (May R
W€wldyou?), 197, 199,218
Possessive:
in adjective clauses (whose), 359
nouns (Tom's), 173
pronouns and adjectives (mine and my),
176
hfer, 2 18
Prepositional phrases (on the desk), 161
Prepositions (ar,f/om, under):
combinations with verbs and adjectives,
453
followed by gerunds, 381
list, 161,463- 464
objects of, 161
as particle in phrasal verbs (put off,put
on), 432
of place, 162fn, 164
vs. time, word order, 164
placement in adjective clauses, 355
placement in information questions,
l26fn
in stative passive (be married to), 292
of time (in, on, aZ), 163INDEX 5