Grammar Practice New Edition

Contents

To the Student
NOUNS, ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

countable and uncountable nouns 1, 3 the article 4-6

attributive and predicative adjectives 9 order of adjectives 10 participles as adjectives 12 suffixes and prefixes 13, 15 non-gradable adjectives 15 comparison of adjectives 16-17 adverbs and adverbial phrases 20 position of adverbs 21-22 comparison of adverbs 24

VERBS

simple and continuous aspects 27 stative and dynamic verbs 29 perfect aspect 31

The present tense

present simple and continuous 33-34 The past tense

past simple and continuous 37-39, 46

Tenses with the perfect aspect

present perfect simple 42-44, 46 present perfect continuous 43-44 past perfect simple 49-50 past perfect continuous 52

Future forms

be going to future 54-55, 58-59 present continuous as future 54-55, 65 future with will 56-59, 63 present simple as future 61 future continuous 62-63, 65 future perfect 66

other ways of referring to the future 68 The passive

forms and uses of the passive 70-71 causative use of have and get 75-76

Miscellaneous

constructions after wish 77 phrasal verbs 79

CONDITIONALS

first, second and third conditional 82, 85-86

variations in tenses 85-86

the zero conditional 86

mixed conditionals 88

words other than if 91

implied conditionals 92
MODALS

Introduction 94-95 ability: can, could, be able 97 certainty, possibility, deduction: can, could, may, might, must, will, should, ought to 99-100 advice, obligation, necessity: should, ought to, must, have to, have got to, need 103-104 offers, requests, permission, suggestions: can, could, may, aught, would, must, shall, would you mind 107

habit: would, used to 109

GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

uses of the gerund 111, 113 uses of the infinitive 111-113 the bare infinitive 114-115 verbs of perception + object + mg or bare infinitive 116

verb + to-infinitive or gerund 117-119 preposition + gerund 120 be + adjective + infinitive 122 different forms of the gerund and the infinitive 126

REPORTED SPEECH

reported statements 128-130 reported questions 131-132 when not to change tense 128-130 verbs used in reporting 134 summarizing when reporting 136

SENTENCE STRUCTURE

simple, compound and complex sentences 138-139 conjunctions 139 noun clauses 140 participial constructions 143-145 adverbial clauses of time, place, manner and reason 148

defining relative clauses 151 non-defining relative clauses 154-156 relative clauses of time, place and reason 159 relative clauses after all, etc. 160 co-ordinating relative clauses 161 tag questions 162-165 echo tags 164-165 prepositions 168-170