Advanced grammar in use Martin Hewings

CONTENTS

Thanks vii To the student viii To the teacher ix

 

Tenses

 

1 Present simple (I do) and present continuous (I am doing) (1)

 

2 Present simple (I do) and present continuous (I am doing) (2)

 

3 Present perfect (I have done) and past simple (I did) (1)

 

4 Present perfect (I have done) and past simple (I did) (2)

 

5 Present perfect (I have done) and past simple {I did) (3): adverbs used with these tenses

 

6 Past continuous (I was doing) and past simple (I did)

 

7 Present perfect continuous (I have been doing)

 

8 Present perfect continuous (I have been doing) and present perfect (I have done)

 

9 Past perfect (I had done) and past simple (I did)

 

10 Past perfect continuous (I had been doing) and past perfect (I had done)

 

The future

 

11 Will and going to; shall

 

12 Present continuous (I am doing) for the future and going to

 

13 Present simple (I do) for the future

 

14 Future continuous (will be doing)

 

15 Be to + infinitive (I am to do), future perfect (I will have done), and future perfect continuous (I will have been doing)

 

16 The future seen from the past (was going to, etc.)

 

Modals

 

17 Should and ought to

 

18 Will and would: willingness, likelihood and certainty

 

19 Will and would: habits; used to

 

20 May, might, can and could: possibility (1)

 

21 May, might, can and could: possibility (2)

 

22 Can, could, and be able to: ability

 

23 Must and have (got) to

 

24 Need(n’t), don’t have to and mustn’t

 

25 Permission, offers, etc.

 

Be, have, do, make, etc.

 

26 Linking verbs: be, appear, seem; become, get, etc.

 

27 Have and have got; have and take

 

28 Do and make

 

Passives

 

29 Forming passive sentences

 

30 Using passives

 

31 Verb + -ing or to-infinitive: passive forms

 

32 Reporting with passive verbs

 

Questions

 

33 Forming questions; reporting questions

 

34 Asking and answering negative questions

 

35 Wh-questions with how, what, which and who

Verbs: infinitives, -ing forms, etc. -w-_——

 

36 Verbs with and without objects

 

37 Verb + to-infinitive or bare infinitive 3 8 Verb + to-infinitive or -ing?

 

39 Verb + -ing

 

40 Verb + wh-clause

 

41 Have/get something done; want something done, etc.

 

42 Verb + two objects

 

Reporting

 

43 Reporting people’s words and thoughts

 

44 Reporting statements (1): that-clauses

 

45 Reporting statements (2): verb tense in that-clauses

 

46 Reporting statements (3): verb tense in the reporting clause; say and tell; etc.

 

47 Reporting offers, suggestions, orders, intentions, etc.

 

48 Should in that-clauses

 

49 Modal verbs in reporting

 

Nouns and compounds

 

50 Countable and uncountable nouns

 

51 Agreement between subject and verb (1)

 

52 Agreement between subject and verb (2)

 

53 The possessive form of nouns (Jane’s mother)

 

54 Compound nouns (1)

 

55 Compound nouns (2)

 

Articles

 

56 A/an and one

 

57 The and a/an (1): ‘the only one’

 

58 The and a/an (2): ‘things already known’, etc.

 

59 Some and zero article with plural and uncountable nouns

 

60 The, zero article and a/an: ‘things m general’

 

61 People and places

 

62 Holidays, times of the day, meals, etc.

 

Determiners and quantifiers

 

63 Some and any; something, somebody, etc.

 

64 Much (of), many (of), a lot of, lots (of), etc.

 

65 All (of), the whole (of), both (of)

 

66 Each (of), every, and all

 

67 No, none (of), and not any

 

68 Few, a few (of), little, a little (of), etc.

 

69 Quantifiers with and without ‘of’ (some/some of; any/any of; etc.)

 

Relative clauses and other types of clause

 

70 Relative clauses (1) (The girl who I was talking about.)

 

71 Relative clauses (2) (Tom, who is only six, can speak three languages.)

 

72 Relative clauses (3): other relative pronouns

 

73 Relative clauses (4): prepositions in relative clauses

 

74 Participle clauses (-ing, -ed and being + -ed)

 

75 Participle clauses with adverbial meaning

Pronouns, substitution and leaving out words

 

76 Reflexive pronouns: herself, himself, themselves, etc.

 

77 One and ones (There’s my car - the green one.)

 

78 So (I think so; so 1 hear)

 

79 Do so; such

 

80 Leaving out words after auxiliary verbs

 

81 Leaving out to-infinitives (She didn’t want to (go).)

 

Adjectives

 

• 82 Adjectives: position (1)

 

83 Gradable and ungradable adjectives; position (2)

 

84 Adjectives and adverbs

 

85 Participle adjectives (the losing ticket; the selected winners)

 

86 Prepositions after adjectives: afraid of/for, etc.

 

87 Adjectives + that-clause or to-infinitive

 

88 Comparison with adjectives (lb -er/more...; enough, sufficiently, too; etc.

 

89 Comparison with adjectives (2): as...as; so...as to; etc.

 

Adverbs and conjunctions

 

90 Position of adverbs

 

91 Adverbs of place, indefinite frequency, and time

 

92 Degree adverbs: very, too, extremely, quite, etc.

 

93 Comment adverbs; viewpoint adverbs; focus adverbs

 

- 94 Adverbial clauses of time (1): verb tense; before and until; hardly, etc.

 

95 Adverbial clauses of time (2): as, when and while

 

96 Giving reasons: as, because, because of, etc.; for and with

 

97 Purposes and results: in order to, so as to, etc.

 

98 Contrasts: although and though; even though/if; in spite of and despite

 

99 -Conditional sentences (1): verb tenses

 

100 Conditional sentences (2)

 

101 If...not and unless; if and whether, etc.

 

102 After waiting..., before leaving..,, besides owning..., etc.

 

103 Connecting ideas between and within sentences

 

Prepositions

 

104 At, in and on: prepositions of place

 

105 Across, along, over and through; above, over, below and under

 

106 Between, among; by, beside, etc.

 

107 At, in and on: prepositions of time

 

108 During, for, in, over, and throughout; by and until

 

109 Except (for), besides, apart from and but for

 

110 About and on; by and with

 

111 Prepositions after verbs ( 1 )

 

112 Prepositions after verbs (2)

 

113 Prepositions after verbs (3)

 

114 Two-and three-word verbs: word order