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Advanced Grammar in Use 4th Edition

Martin Hewings

Thanks vii

To the student viii

To the teacher x

Study planner xii

Tenses

1 Present continuous and present simple: state verbs and performatives

2 Using present continuous and present simple

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, future perfect and future perfect continuous

12 Be to + infinitive; be about to + infinitive

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 Using passives

23 Forming passive sentences: objects, complements and multi-word verbs

24 Forming passive sentences: verb + -ing or to-infinitive

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 infinitives 1

31 Verb + -ing forms and infinitives 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 ellipsis after auxiliary verbs

65 Ellipsis of to-infinitives

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