Advanced grammar in use : a self-study reference and practice book for advanced learners of English ; with answers / Martin Hewings.

Includes indexes.

Tenses -- 1. Present continuous and present simple (1) -- 2. Present continuous and present simple (2) -- 3. Past simple and present perfect -- 4. Past continuous and past simple -- 5. Past perfect and past simple -- 6. Present perfect continuous and present perfect -- 7. Past perfect continuous, past perfect and past continuous -- 8. Present and past time: review -- The future -- 9. Will and be going to -- 10. Present simple and present continuous for the future -- 11. Future continuous and future perfect (continuous) -- 12. Be to + infinitive -- 13. Other ways of talking about the future -- 14. The future seen from the past -- Modals and semi-modals -- 15. Can, could, be able to and be allowed to -- 16. Will, would and used to -- 17. May and might: possibility -- 18. Must and have (got) to -- 19. Need(n't), don't need to and don't have to -- 20. Should, ought to and had better -- Linking verbs, passives, questions -- 21. Linking verbs: be, appear, seem, become, get, etc -- 22. Forming passive sentences (1) -- 23. Forming passive sentences (2): verb + -ing or to-infinitive -- 24. Using passives -- 25. Reporting with passive verbs, It is said that -- 26. Wh-questions with who, whom, which, how and whose -- 27. Negative questions, echo questions, questions with that-clauses -- Verb complementation: what follows verbs -- 28. Verbs, objects and complements -- 29. Verb + two objects -- 30. Verb + -ing forms and infinitives (1) -- 31. Verb + -ing forms and infinitives (2) -- Reporting -- 32. Reporting people's words and thoughts -- 33. Reporting statements: that-clauses -- 34. Verb + wh-clause -- 35. Tense choice in reporting -- 36. Reporting offers, suggestions, orders, intentions, etc -- 37. Modal verbs in reporting -- 38. Reporting what people say using nouns and adjectives -- 39. Should in that-clauses, the present subjunctive -- Nouns -- 40. Agreement between subject and verb (1) -- 41. Agreement between subject and verb (2) -- 42. Agreement between subject and verb (3) -- 43. Compound nouns and noun phrases -- Articles, determiners and quantifiers -- 44. A /an and one -- 45. A /an, the and zero article (1) -- 46. A /an, the and zero article (2) -- 47. A /an, the and zero article (3) -- 48. Some and any -- 49. No, none (of) and not any -- 50. Much (of), many (of) a lot of, lots (of), etc -- 51. All (of), whole, every, each -- 52. Few, little, less, fewer -- Relative clauses and other types of clause -- 53. Relative pronouns -- 54. Other relative words: whose, when, whereby, etc -- 55. Prepositions in relative clauses -- 56. Other ways of adding information to noun phrases (1): additional noun phrases, etc -- 57. Other ways of adding information to noun phrases (2): prepositional phrases, etc -- 58. Participle clauses with adverbial meaning (1) -- 59. Participle clauses with adverbial meaning (2) -- Pronouns, substitution and leaving out words -- 60. Reflexive pronouns: herself, himself, themselves, etc -- 61. One and ones -- 62. So and not as substitutes for clauses, etc -- 63. Do so, such -- 64. More on leaving out words after auxiliary verbs -- 65. Leaving out to-infinitives -- Adjectives and adverbs -- 66. Position of adjectives -- 67. Gradable and non-gradable adjectives (1) -- 68. Gradable and non-gradable adjectives (2) -- 69. Participle adjectives and compound adjectives -- 70. Adjectives + to-infinitive, -ing, that-clause, wh-clause -- 71. Adjectives and adverbs -- 72. Adjectives and adverbs: comparative and superlative forms -- 73. Comparative phrases and clauses -- 74. Position of adverbs (1) -- 75. Position of adverbs (2) -- 76. Adverbs of place, direction, indefinite frequency, and time -- 77. Degree adverbs and focus adverbs -- 78. Comment adverbs and viewpoint adverbs -- Adverbial clauses and conjunctions -- 79. Adverbial clauses of time -- 80. Giving reasons: as, because, etc., for and with -- 81. Purposes and results: in order to, so as to, etc -- 82. Contrasts: although and though, even though /if, while, whilst and whereas -- 83. If (1) -- 84. If (2) -- 85. If I were you., imagine he were to win -- 86. If - not and unless, if and whether, etc -- 87. Connecting ideas in a sentence and between sentences -- Prepositions -- 88. Prepositions of position and movement -- 89. Between and among -- 90. Prepositions of time -- 91. Talking about exceptions -- 92. Prepositions after verbs -- 93. Prepositions after nouns -- 94. Two- and three-word verbs: word order -- Organising information -- 95. There is, there was, etc -- 96. It. (1) -- 97. It. (2) -- 98. Focusing: it-clauses and what-clauses -- 99. Inversion (1) -- 100. Inversion (2) -- Grammar review -- Appendix 1. Passive verb forms -- Appendix 2. Basic question forms -- Appendix 3. Quoting what people think or what they have said -- Appendix 4. Irregular verbs.

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