Advanced english grammar a study reference and practice book for advanced south asian students/ Martin Hewings

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) The future seen from the past (was going to, etc.)
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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
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Verbs: infinitives, -ing forms, etc. 36 Verbs with and without ohjects 37 Verb + to-infinitive or bare infinitive 38 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 R.eporting 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.
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50 Countable and uncountable nouns - j b'. 51 Agreement between subject and verb (1) ^ ' - ■ ' • 52 Agreement between subject and verb (2) . . .. . .-(...ci.-. " ..H 53 The possessive form of nouns (Jane's mother) '!■ ' . ' . ■, : , .i. ! 54 Compound nouns (1) b . . j 55 Compound nouns (2) ' ~ -t. I. " :<i, ■, . : ,ii Articles 56 A/an and one 57 The and a/an (1): 'the on^y 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 in general' ' " - T'.'' 61 People and places 62 Holidays, times of the day, meals, etc. -.i.'Ki b il d : . > . ) Oi ilOgi ICuM Determiners and quantifiers -um l.<n» oj i nol t 63 Some and any; something, somebody, etc. j.j.. .vimjol 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.) H I. y rtl.l .. VILlI
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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
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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 I 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. ,;:i. lui.. 87 Adjectives H-that-clause or to-infinitive -v / /I .;t. 88 Comparison with adjectives (1): -er/more...; enough, sufficiently, too; etc. , ^ 89 Comparison with adjectives (2): as...as; so...as to; etc. --iP
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Adverbs and conjunctions ■■■-.•90 PosTion 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
Organising information 115 There is, there was, etc. 116 It... (1) 117 It... (2) 118 Focusing: it-clauses and what-clauses 119 Inversion (1) 120 Inversion (2)
Appendix 1 Passive verb forms 242 Appendix 2 Quoting what people think or what they have said 243 Appendix 3 Irregular verbs 244 Appendix 4 Typical errors and corrections 246
Glossary 265 Additional exercises 269 Study guide 280 Key to exercises 289 Key to Additional exercises 325 Key to Study guide 329 /
Index 330