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.
Author(s): Murphy R.
Edition: 2
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2001
Language: English
Commentary: Eleventh printing, 1998
Pages: 350
City: Cambridge
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
