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Introduction 1Chapter 1: Brushing Up on the Basics 5Chapter 2: Closing the Gender Gap 19Chapter 3: It's Happening in the Present 43Chapter 4: Spicing Up Your Descriptions with Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions 67Chapter 5: Making Inquiries 89Chapter 6: Revealing the Past 103Chapter 7: Looking to the Future 121Chapter 8: Identifying Verb Moods 127Chapter 9: Ten Important Verb Distinctions 151Appendix: Verb Charts 157Index 169