English Grammar in Use Fourth Edition

Contents

Thanks vii To the student viii To the teacher x

 

Present and past

 

1 Present continuous (I am doing)

 

2 Present simple (I do)

 

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

 

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

 

5 Past simple (I did)

 

6 Past continuous (I was doing)

 

Present perfect and past

 

7 Present perfect 1 (I have done)

 

8 Present perfect 2 (I have done)

 

9 Present perfect continuous (I have been doing)

 

10 Present perfect continuous and simple (I have been doing and I have done)

 

11 How long have you (been)... ?

 

12 For and since When ... ? and How long ... ?

 

13 Present perfect and past 1 (I have done and I did)

 

14 Present perfect and past 2 (I have done and I did)

 

15 Past perfect (I had done)

 

16 Past perfect continuous (I had been doing)

 

17 Have and have got

 

18 Used to (do)

 

Future

 

19 Present tenses (I am doing / I do) for the future

 

20 (Гт) going to (do)

 

21 Will/shalM

 

22 Will/shaU2

 

23 I will and Гт going to

 

24 Will be doing and will have done

 

25 When I do / When I've done When and if

 

Modals

 

26 Can, could and (be) able to

 

27 Could (do) and could have (done)

 

28 Must and can’t

 

29 May and might 1

 

30 May and might 2

 

31 Have to and must

 

32 Must mustn't needn't

 

33 Should 1

 

34 Should 2

 

35 Had better It's time ...

 

36 Would

 

37 Can/Could/Would you ... ? etc. (Requests, offers, permission and invitations)

If and wish

 

38 If I do ... and If I did ...

 

39 If I knew ... I wish I knew ...

 

40 If I had known ... I wish I had known ...

 

41 Wish

 

Passive

 

42 Passive 1 (is done / was done)

 

43 Passive 2 (be done / been done / being done)

 

44 Passive B

 

45 It is said that... He is said to ... He is supposed to ...

 

46 Have something done

 

Reported speech

 

47 Reported speech 1 (He said that...)

 

48 Reported speech 2

 

Questions and auxiliary verbs

 

49 Questions 1

 

50 Questions 2 (Do you know where ... ? / He asked me where ...)

 

51 Auxiliary verbs (have/do/can etc.) I think so / I hope so etc.

 

52 Question tags {do you? isn't it? etc.)

 

-ing and to...

 

53 Verb + -ing (enjoy doing / stop doing etc)

 

54 Verb + to ... (decide to ... / forget to ... etc.)

 

55 Verb (+ object) + to ... (I want you to ... etc.)

 

56 Verb + -ing or to ... 1 (remember/regret etc.)

 

57 Verb + -ing or to ... 2 (try/need/help)

 

58 Verb + -ing or to ... 3 (like / would like etc.)

 

59 Prefer and would rather

 

60 Preposition (in/for/about etc.) + -ing

 

61 Be/get used to something (Гт used to ...)

 

62 Verb + preposition + -ing (succeed in -ing / accuse somebody of -ing etc.)

 

63 Expressions + -ing

 

64 To ..., for... and so that...

 

65 Adjective + to ...

 

66 To ... (afraid to do) and preposition + -ing (afraid of -ing)

 

67 See somebody do and see somebody doing

 

68 -ing clauses (Feeling tired, I went to bed early.)

 

Articles and nouns

 

69 Countable and uncountable 1

 

70 Countable and uncountable 2

 

71 Countable nouns with a/an and some

 

72 A/an and the

 

73 The 1

 

74 The 2 (school / the school etc.)

 

75 The 3 (children / the children)

 

76 The 4 (the giraffe / the telephone / the piano etc., the + adjective)

 

77 Names with and without the 1

 

78 Names with and without the 2

79 Singular and plural

 

80 Noun + noun (a tennis ball / a headache)

 

81 -*s (your sister(s name) and of... (the name of the book)

Pronouns and determiners

 

82 MyseLf/yourself/themselves etc.

 

83 A friend of mine My own house On my own / by myself

 

84 There ... and it...

 

85 Some and any

 

86 No/none/any Nothing/nobody etc.

 

87 Much, many, little, few, a lot, plenty

 

88 All / all of most / most of no / none of etc.

 

89 Both / both of neither / neither of either / either of

 

90 All, every and whole

 

91 Each and every

 

Relative clauses

 

92 Relative clauses 1: clauses with who/that/which

 

93 Relative clauses 2： clauses with and without who/that/which

 

94 Relative clauses 3: whose/whom/where

 

95 Relative dauses 4: extra information clauses (1)

 

96 Relative clauses 5: extra information clauses (2)

 

97 -ing and -ed clauses (the woman talking to Tom, the boy injured in the accident)

 

Adjectives and adverbs

 

98 Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed (boring/bored etc.)

 

99 Adjectives: a nice new house, you look tired

 

100 Adjectives and adverbs 1 (quick/quickly)

 

101 Adjectives and adverbs 2 (well/fast/late, hard/hardly)

 

102 So and such

 

103 Enough and too

 

104 Quite, pretty, rather and fairly

 

105 Comparison 1 (cheaper, more expensive etc.)

 

106 Comparison 2 (much better / any better / better and better / the sooner the better)

 

107 Comparison 3 (as ... as / than)

 

108 Superlatives (the longest, the most enjoyable etc.)

 

109 Word order 1: verb + object; place and time

 

110 Word order 2: adverbs with the verb

 

111 Still, yet and already Any more / any longer / no longer

 

112 Even

 

Conjunctions and prepositions

 

113 Although / though / even though In spite of / despite

 

114 In case

 

115 Unless As long as Provided/providing

 

116 As (As I walked along the street... / As I was hungry ...)

 

117 Like and as

 

118 Like / as if / as though

 

119 For, during and while

 

120 By and until By the time …

Prepositions

 

121 At/on/in (time)

 

122 On time and in time

 

123 ln/at/on (position) 1

 

124 ln/at/on (position) Z

 

125 ln/at/on (position) 3

 

126 To/at/in/into

 

127 ln/on/at (other uses)

 

128 By

 

129 Noun + preposition (reason for, cause of etc.)

 

130 Adjective + preposition 1

 

131 Adjective + preposition 2

 

132 Verb + preposition 1 to and at

 

133 Verb + preposition 2 about/for/of/after

 

134 Verb + preposition 3 about and of

 

135 Verb + preposition 4 of/for/from/on

 

136 Verb + preposition 5 in/into/with/to/on

Phrasal verbs

At the end and in the end

Phrasal verbs 1 Phrasal verbs 2 Phrasal verbs 3 Phrasal verbs 4 Phrasal verbs 5 Phrasal verbs 6 Phrasal verbs 7 Phrasal verbs 8 Phrasal verbs 9

General points

 

in/out

 

out

 

on/off (1) on/off (2) up/down

 

up⑴

 

up (2) away/back

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Regular and irregular verbs 292 Present and past tenses 294 The future 295

 

Modalverbs (can/could/wilL/would etc.) 296 Short forms (I’m / you’ve / didn’t etc.) 297 Spelling 298 American English 300

Additional exercises 302

 

Study guide 326

 

Key to Exercises 336

 

Key to Additional exercises 368

 

Key to Study guide 372

Index 373