Cambridge Advanced Grammar in Use – Martin Hewings – 3rd Edition

Thanks vii

To the student viii

To the teacher ix

Tenses

1 Present continuous and present simple 1

2 Present continuous and present simple 2

3 Past simple and present perfect

4 Past continuous and past simple

5 Past perfect and past simple

6 Present perfect continuous and present perfect

7 Past perfect continuous, past perfect and past continuous

8 Present and past time: review

The future

9 Will and be going to

10 Present simple and present continuous for the future

11 Future continuous and future perfect (continuous)

12 Be to + infi nitive, be about to + infi nitive

13 Other ways of talking about the future

14 The future seen from the past

Modals and semi-modals

15 Can, could, be able to and be allowed to

16 Will, would and used to

17 May and might

18 Must and have (got) to

19 Need(n't), don't need to and don't have to

20 Should, ought to and had better

Linking verbs, passives, questions

21 Linking verbs: be, appear, seem, become, get, etc.

22 Forming passive sentences 1

23 Forming passive sentences 2: verb + -ing or to-infi nitive

24 Using passives

25 Reporting with passives, It is said that ...

26 Wh-questions with who, whom, which, how and whose

27 Negative questions, echo questions, questions with that-clauses

Verb complementation: what follows verbs

28 Verbs, objects and complements

29 Verb + two objects

30 Verb + -ing forms and infi nitives 1

31 Verb + -ing forms and infi nitives 2

Reporting

32 Reporting people's words and thoughts

33 Reporting statements: that-clauses

34 Verb + wh-clause

35 Tense choice in reporting

36 Reporting offers, suggestions, orders, intentions, etc.

37 Modal verbs in reporting

38 Reporting what people say using nouns and adjectives

39 Should in that-clauses, the present subjunctive

Nouns

40 Agreement between subject and verb 1

41 Agreement between subject and verb 2

42 Agreement between subject and verb 3

43 Compound nouns and noun phrases

Articles, determiners and quantifiers

44 A / an and one

45 A / an, the and zero article 1

46 A / an, the and zero article 2

47 A / an, the and zero article 3

48 Some and any

49 No, none (of) and not any

50 Much (of), many (of), a lot of, lots (of), etc.

51 All (of), whole, every, each

52 Few, little, less, fewer

Relative clauses and other types of clause

53 Relative pronouns

54 Other relative words: whose, when, whereby, etc.

55 Prepositions in relative clauses

56 Other ways of adding information to noun phrases 1: additional noun phrases, etc.

57 Other ways of adding information to noun phrases 2: prepositional phrases, etc.

58 Participle clauses with adverbial meaning 1

59 Participle clauses with adverbial meaning 2

Pronouns, substitution and leaving out words

60 Reflexive pronouns: herself, himself, themselves, etc.

61 One and ones

62 So and not as substitutes for clauses, etc.

63 Do so, such

64 More on leaving out words after auxiliary verbs

65 Leaving out to-infinitives

Adjectives and adverbs

66 Position of adjectives

67 Gradable and non-gradable adjectives 1

68 Gradable and non-gradable adjectives 2

69 Participle adjectives and compound adjectives

70 Adjectives + to-infinitive, -ing, that-clause, wh-clause

71 Adjectives and adverbs

72 Adjectives and adverbs: comparative and superlative forms

73 Comparative phrases and clauses

74 Position of adverbs 1

75 Position of adverbs 2

76 Adverbs of place, direction, indefinite frequency, and time

77 Degree adverbs and focus adverbs

78 Comment adverbs and viewpoint adverbs

Adverbial clauses and conjunctions

79 Adverbial clauses of time

80 Giving reasons: as, because, etc., for and with

81 Purposes and results: in order to, so as to, etc.

82 Contrasts: although and though, even though / if, while, whilst and whereas

83 If 1

84 If 2

85 If I were you ..., imagine he were to win

86 If ... not and unless, if and whether, etc.

87 Connecting ideas in a sentence and between sentences

Prepositions

88 Prepositions of position and movement

89 Between and among

90 Prepositions of time

91 Talking about exceptions

92 Prepositions after verbs

93 Prepositions after nouns

94 Two- and three-word verbs: word order

Organising information

95 There is, there was, etc.

96 It 1

97 It 2

98 Focusing: it-clauses and what-clauses

99 Inversion 1

100 Inversion 2

Appendix 1 Irregular verbs 202

Appendix 2 Passive verb forms 204

Glossary 205

Study planner 210

Grammar reminder 222

Additional exercises 240

Key to Exercises 251

Key to Study planner 277

Key to Additional exercises 278

Index of grammatical items 281

Index of lexical items 287