Advanced grammar in use : a self-study reference and practice book for advanced learners of English /
Advanced grammar in use: A reference and practice book for advanced students of English.
Martin Hewings.
- Second edition.
- ix, 264 pages ; 27 cm
Tenses -- Present continuous and present simple (1) -- Present continuous and present simple (2) -- Past simple and present perfect -- Past continuous and past simple -- Past perfect and past simple -- Present perfect continuous and present perfect -- Past perfect continuous, past perfect and past continuous -- Present and past time: review -- The future -- Will and be going to -- Present simple and present continuous for the future -- Future continuous and future perfect (continuous) -- Be to + infinitive -- Other ways of talking about the future -- The future seen from the past -- Modals and semi-modals -- Can, could, be able to and be allowed to -- Will, would and used to -- May and might: possibility -- Must and have (got) to -- Need(n't), don't need to and don't have to -- Should, ought to and had better -- Linking verbs, passives, questions -- Linking verbs: be, appear, seem -- become, get, etc -- Forming passive sentences (1) -- Forming passive sentences (2): verb + -ing or to-infinitive -- Using passives -- Reporting with passive verbs -- It is said that -- Wh-questions with who, whom, which, how and whose -- Negative questions -- echo questions -- questions with that-clauses -- Verb complementation: what follows verbs -- Verbs, objects and complements -- Verb + two objects -- Verb + -ing forms and infinitives (1) -- Verb + -ing forms and infinitives (2) -- Reporting -- Reporting people's words and thoughts -- Reporting statements: that-clauses -- Verb + wh-clause -- Tense choice in reporting -- Reporting offers, suggestions, orders, intentions, etc -- Modal verbs in reporting -- Reporting what people say using nouns and adjectives -- Should in that-clauses -- the present subjunctive -- Nouns -- Agreement between subject and verb (1) -- Agreement between subject and verb (2) -- Agreement between subject and verb (3) -- Compound nouns and noun phrases -- Articles, determiners and quantifiers -- A /an and one -- A /an, the and zero article (1) -- A /an, the and zero article (2) -- A /an, the and zero article (3) -- Some and any -- No, none (of) and not any -- Much (of), many (of), a lot of, lots (of), etc -- All (of), whole, every, each -- Few, little, less, fewer -- Relative clauses and other types of clause -- Relative pronouns -- Other relative words: whose, when, whereby, etc -- Prepositions in relative clauses -- Other ways of adding information to noun phrases (1): additional noun phrases, etc -- Other ways of adding information to noun phrases (2): prepositional phrases, etc -- Participle clauses with adverbial meaning (1) -- Participle clauses with adverbial meaning (2) -- Pronouns, substitution and leaving out words -- Reflexive pronouns: herself, himself, themselves, etc -- One and ones -- So and not as substitutes for clauses, etc -- Do so -- such -- More on leaving out words after auxiliary verbs -- Leaving out to-infinitives -- Adjectives and adverbs -- Position of adjectives -- Gradable and non-gradable adjectives (1) -- Gradable and non-gradable adjectives (2) -- Participle adjectives and compound adjectives -- Adjectives + to-infinitive, -ing, that-clause, wh-clause -- Adjectives and adverbs -- Adjectives and adverbs: comparative and superlative forms -- Comparative phrases and clauses -- Position of adverbs (1) -- Position of adverbs (2) -- Adverbs of place, direction, indefinite frequency, and time -- Degree adverbs and focus adverbs -- Comment adverbs and viewpoint adverbs -- Adverbial clauses and conjunctions -- Adverbial clauses of time -- Giving reasons: as, because, etc -- for and with -- Purposes and results: in order to, so as to, etc -- Contrasts: although and though -- even though /if -- while, whilst and whereas -- If (1) -- If (2) -- If I were you -- imagine he were to win -- If.not and unless -- if and whether -- etc -- Connecting ideas in a sentence and between sentences -- Prepositions -- Prepositions of position and movement -- Between and among -- Prepositions of time -- Talking about exceptions -- Prepositions after verbs -- Prepositions after nouns -- Two- and three-word verbs: word order -- Organising information -- There is, there was, etc -- It ... (1) -- It ... (2) -- Focusing: it-clauses and what-clauses -- Inversion (1) -- Inversion (2) -- Grammar review -- Passive verb forms -- Basic question forms -- Quoting what people think or what they have said -- Irregular verbs. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Appendix 1. Appendix 2. Appendix 3. Appendix 4.
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