English Grammar in Use (intermediate) (with answers) (eleventh printing)

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2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 350 p. English Grammar in Use was written as a self-study grammar book but teachers may also find it useful as additional course material in cases where further work on grammar is necessary. The book will probably be most useful at middle- and upper-intermediate levels (where all or nearly all of the material will be relevant), and can serve both as a basis for revision and as a means for practising new structures. It will also be useful for some more advanced students who have problems with grammar and need a book for reference and practice. The book is not intended to be used by elementary learners. The units are organised in grammatical categories (Present and past, Articles and nouns, Prepositions etc.). They are not ordered according to level of difficulty, so the book should not be worked through from beginning to end. It should be used selectively and flexibly in accordance with the grammar syllabus being used and the difficulties students are having. The book can be used for immediate consolidation or for later revision or remedial work. It might be used by the whole class or by individual students needing extra help. The lefthand pages (explanations and examples) are written for the student to use individually but they may of course be used by the teacher as a source of ideas and information on which to base a lesson. The student then has the left-hand page as a record of what has been taught and can refer to it in the future. The exercises can be done individually, in class or as homework. Alternatively (and additionally), individual students can be directed to study certain units of the book by themselves if they have particular difficulties not shared by other students in their class. This new edition of English Grammar in Use contains a set of Additional exercises (pages 284-300). These exercises provide ‘mixed’ practice bringing together grammar points from a number of different units. CONTENTS Thanks vii To the student viii To the teacher ix 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 When...? and How long...? For and since 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 (I’m) going to (do) 21 Will/shall (1) 22 Will/shall (2) 23 I will and I’m 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 Must and have to 32 Must mustn’t needn’t 33 Should (1) 34 Should (2) 35 Had better It’s time... 36 Can / Could / Would you...? etc. (Requests, offers, permission and invitations) Conditionals and ‘wish ’ 37 If I do... and If I did... 38 If I knew... I wish I knew... 39 If I had known... I wish I had known... 40 Would I wish...would Passive 41 Passive (1) (is done / was done) 42 Passive (2) (be/been/being done) 43 Passive (3) 44 It is said that... He is said to... (be) supposed to... 45 Have something done Reported speech 46 Reported speech (1) (He said that...) 47 Reported speech (2) Questions and auxiliary verbs 48 Questions (1) 49 Questions (2) (Do you know where...? / She asked me where...) 50 Auxiliary verbs (have/do/can etc.) I think so / I hope so etc. 51 Question tags (do you? isn’t it? etc.) -ing and the infinitive 52 Verb + -ing (enjoy doing / stop doing etc.) 53 Verb + to... (decide to do / forget to do etc.) 54 Verb + (object) + to... (I want (you) to do etc.) 55 Verb + -ing or to... (1) (remember/regret etc.) 56 Verb + -ing or to... (2) (try/need/help) 57 Verb + -ing or to... (3) (like / would like etc.) 58 Prefer and would rather 59 Preposition (in/for/about etc.) + -ing 60 Be/get used to something (I’m used to...) 61 Verb + preposition + -ing (succeed in -ing / accuse somebody of -ing etc.) 62 Expressions + -ing 63 T o ..., for... and so that... (purpose) 64 Adjective + to... 65 T o ... (afraid to do) and preposition + -ing (afraid of -ing) 66 See somebody do and see somebody doing 67 -ing clauses (Feeling tired, I went to bed early.) Articles and nouns 68 Countable and uncountable nouns (1 ) 69 Countable and uncountable nouns (2) 70 Countable nouns with a/an and some 71 A/an and the 72 The (1 ) 73 The (2) (School / the school) 74 The (3) (Children / the children) 75 The (4) (The giraffe / the telephone / the piano etc.; the + adjective) 76 Names with and without the (1) 77 Names with and without the (2) 78 Singular and plural 79 Noun + noun (a tennis ball / a headache etc.) 80 -’s (the girl’s name) and of... (the name of the book) Pronouns and determiners 81 A friend of mine My own house On my own / by myself 82 Myself/yourself/themselves etc. 83 There... and it... 84 Some and any 85 No/none/any 86 Much, many, little, few, a lot, plenty 87 All / all of most / most of no / none of etc. 88 Both / both of neither / neither of either / either of 89 All, every and whole 90 Each and every Relative clauses 91 Relative clauses (1) - clauses with who/that/which 92 Relative clauses (2) - clauses with or without who/th at/which 93 Relative clauses (3) - whose/whom/where 94 Relative clauses (4) - ‘extra information’ clauses (1) 95 Relative clauses (5) - ‘extra information’ clauses (2) 96 -ing and -ed clauses (the woman talking to Tom, the boy injured in the accident) Adjectives and adverbs 97 Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed (boring/bored etc.) 98 Adjectives: word order (a nice new house) Adjectives after verbs (You look tired) 99 Adjectives and adverbs (1) (quick/quickly) 100 Adjectives and adverbs (2) (well/fast/late, hard/hardly) 101 So and such 102 Enough and too 103 Quite and rather 104 Comparison (1) - cheaper, more expensive etc. 105 Comparison (2) 106 Comparison (3) - as...as / than 107 Superlatives - the longest / the most enjoyable etc. 108 Word order (1 ) - verb + object; place and time 109 Word order (2) - adverbs with the verb 110 Still, yet and already Any more / any longer / no longer 111 Even Conjunctions and prepositions 112 Although / though / even though In spite of / despite 113 In case 114 Unless As long as and provided/providing 115 As (reason and time) 116 Like and as 117 As if 118 For, during and while 119 By and until By the time... Prepositions 120 At/on/in (time) 121 On time / in time At the end / in the end 122 In/at/on (place) (1 ) 123 In/at/on (place) (2) 124 In/at/on (place) (3) 125 To/at/in/into 126 On/in/at (other uses) 127 By 128 Noun + preposition (reason for, cause of etc.) 129 Adjective + preposition (1 ) 130 Adjective + preposition (2) 131 Verb + preposition (1) at and to 132 Verb + preposition (2) about/for/of/after 133 Verb + preposition (3) about and of 134 Verb + preposition (4) of/for/from/on 135 Verb + preposition (5) in/into/with/to/on 136 Phrasal verbs (get up / break down / fill in etc.) Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Appendix 5 Appendix 6 Appendix 7 Regular and irregular verbs 274 Present and past tenses 276 The future 277 . Modal verbs (can/could/will/would etc.) 278 Short forms (Fm/you’ve/didn’t etc.) 279 Spelling 280 American English 282 Additional exercises 284 Study guide 301 Key to Exercises 310 Key to Additional exercises Key to Study guide 343 Index 344