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Grammar
Grammar 1 Introduction 1 Understanding grammar words - Thinking about language in context -Other ways of learning - Which English?
Grammar 2 Present time 1 3 Present simple: form, meaning, pronunciation - Present continuous: form, meaning
Grammar 3 Present time 2 7 Present simple: frequency adverbs - State verbs and action verbs - Present simple or continuous? - Present continuous: future meanings - Other problems
Grammar 4 Past time 1 11 Past simple: form, meaning - Past continuous: form, meaning - Time expressions
Grammar 5 Past time 2 15 Past perfect: form, meaning - Common uses - used to - would - Past perfect and past simple - Past forms used in conditionals
Grammar 6 Present perfect 1 20 Present perfect: form, meaning - Time expressions
Grammar 7 Present perfect 2 24 Present perfect continuous: form, meaning - Time expressions -Present perfect or present perfect continuous? - Other problems
Grammar 8 Future 1 29 Future time - will - be going to - Present continuous - Problems
Grammar 9 Future 2 34 Future continuous - Future perfect - Present simple - Functions using will and shall
Grammar 10 CONSOLIDATION 1 38
Grammar 11 Reported speech 1 42 Reported speech - Tense changes - No tense changes - Speakers in reported speech - People, places, times - Summarizing - say, tell, speak
Grammar 12 Reported speech 2 46 Reporting questions - Reporting commands and requests - Other reporting verbs
Grammar 13 Conditionals 1 50 Conditions and results - Zero conditional: If + present simple, ... present simple - First conditional: If + present simple, ... will/won't - Second conditional: If + past simple, ... would/wouldn't - unless - Other uses of would
Grammar 14 Conditionals 2 55 Third conditional: If+ past perfect, ... would/wouldn't + have + past participle - Modal verbs in conditional sentences - Conditionals without if - If I were you, I...
Grammar 15 Wishes 58 Wishes about the present - Wishes about the past - hope - If only
Grammar 16 Passive 1 61 Passive: form, use - Using by and with - Sentences without an agent -Transitive and intransitive verbs
Grammar 17 Passive 2 66 Verbs with two objects - to be born - have something done - Passive + infinitive
Grammar 18 Modals 1: present and future 69 Modal verbs: form and meaning - Ability - Certainty and uncertainty -Obligation - Opinions and advice
Grammar 19 Modals 2: past 75 Ability - Certainty and uncertainty - Obligation - Opinions and advice
Grammar 20 CONSOLIDATION 2 78
Grammar 21 Purpose 83 Purpose: to and for - Purpose: so that
Grammar 22 Reason and result 86 Reason and result - so and such for emphasis - too and not enough for a difficulty - so and too - Result phrases: as a result, in the end, eventually -Linking words
Grammar 23 Contrast 91 but, yet and although - even though and though - while and whereas -despite and in spite of - however and on the other hand - Linking words
Grammar 24 Functions 94 What is a function? - Asking for information - Offers - Permission -Promising - Requests - Requests with mind - Suggesting and advising
Grammar 25 Relative clauses 1 99 Relative clauses - Relative pronouns - Leaving out the relative pronouns
Grammar 26 Relative clauses 2 103 Combining sentences - Relative clauses with an -ing form - What as a relative pronoun
Grammar 27 Questions 1 106 Yes/No questions - Wh- questions - Question words as the subject -Negative questions - Short answers
Grammar 28 Questions 2 109 Tag questions: form, use - Problems with tags - Reply questions - Indirect questions
Grammar 29 it and there 114 Introducing new information - Referring back - Referring to a place -it's and its - they're and there
Grammar 30 Place and position 116 in, inside, out, outside - Expressions with in - on - Expressions with on -at, in or to - Expressions with at - above/below, over/under - next to/beside, near/by - opposite
Grammar 31 CONSOLIDATION 3 120
Grammar 32 Time expressions 125 in, on and at - Relation to today - Parts of yesterday, today and tomorrow - Calendar references - for, since and ago - during or for? -by or until? - on time or in time? - once and one day, - now and nowadays -then, afterwards, after and later - at the end, in the end and at last
Grammar 33 Countable and uncountable nouns 129 Countable and uncountable - Countable and uncountable: grammar -some or any? - many and much - Change of meaning - Other problems
Grammar 34 Articles 1 133 Indefinite article: a/an - Zero article (no article)
Grammar 35 Articles 2 136 Definite article: the
Grammar 36 Determiners and pronouns 141 all, some - no, none - each, every - both, either, neither
Grammar 37 Adjectives and adverbs 146 Adjectives - Order of adjectives - Gradable adjectives - Adjectives ending -ing and -ed - Adjectives with be, become, feel, look - one -Adverbs - Adverbs of degree (intensifiers)
Grammar 38 Making comparisons 151 Comparatives and superlatives: meaning, form - Irregular forms -Adverbs - Making comparisons - Intensifiers
Grammar 39 Phrasal verbs 1 156 Understanding phrasal verbs - Verbs with three parts - Verbs with two parts: transitive and inseparable
Grammar 40 Phrasal verbs 2 161 Verbs with two parts: transitive and separable - Verbs with two parts: intransitive
Grammar 41 CONSOLIDATION 4 165
Grammar 42 Verbs followed by -ing or infinitive 1 170 Verbs followed by -ing or infinitive: little or no change of meaning - Verbs followed by to + infinitive - Verbs followed by to + infinitive, or fW-clause
Grammar 43 Verbs followed by -ing or infinitive 2 175 Verbs followed by -ing or infinitive: change of meaning - Verbs followed by -ing or infinitive without to: change of meaning - Verbs followed by -ing or noun - Verbs followed by -ing, or noun, or ffzaf-clause
Grammar 44 Verbs followed by prepositions 179 Verbs + preposition - be + adjective + preposition
Grammar 45 Pronouns 184 Indefinite pronouns - someone, anyone etc. - everyone, no one etc. -Reflexive pronouns: myself etc. - Impersonal one
Grammar 46 Possession .189 's (apostrophes) - ofand compound nouns - Possessive adjectives -Possessive pronouns - Double possessive
Grammar 47 Linking words 194 and, both, too, as well, also - for example, such as - first (of all), secondly etc., finally - as well as this, besides this - in fact, actually - in my view, personally - either, or - instead (of) - except - even - Time words with other meanings
Grammar 48 Capital letters and punctuation 199 Capital letters - Full stop (.) - Comma (,) - Semi colon (;) - Colon (:) -Speech marks (") ("") - Question mark (?) and exclamation mark (!)
Grammar 49 Spelling and pronunciation 1 203 Adding -ing to verbs - Words ending in -ful - -ie or -ei? - Silent letters
Grammar 50 Spelling and pronunciation 2 206 Same sound, different spelling - Same pronunciation, different spelling and meaning - Words which look similar - Words with a syllable which is not pronounced - Nouns and verbs with c and s - How to improve spelling