Oxford Practice Grammar Advanced
1st Edition
Published on 3. August 2015
288 pages
978-0-19-450504-8 (ISBN)
Description
Oxford Practice Grammar knows that students need different types of explanation and practice at each stage of their study. Advanced gives challenging practice activities and in-depth explanations. Great for classroom or self-study and it helps you prepare for standard exam questions asked in CAE, CPE, TOEFL, IELTS and other advanced-level exams.
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Content
- Cover
- Book Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Sentences
- Simple sentences and verbs
- Subjects and verbs
- Verbs and objects
- Verbs with indirect objects and clauses
- Linking verbs
- Compound and complex sentences
- Tests
- 2. Tenses
- Verbs, auxiliary verbs and tenses
- Present and present perfect
- Past and past perfect
- Present perfect or past simple?
- Past perfect or past simple?
- Future
- Tests
- 3. Modals
- Modals and phrasal modals
- Complex modals
- Prediction: will, would, be going to, shall
- Willingness, habits and preferences: will and would
- Ability: can, could, be able to
- Permission: can, could, may, might, be allowed to
- Possibility: may, might, can, could
- Necessity: must, have to, have got to, need to, needn't
- Deduction: must, have to, have got to, can't andcouldn't
- Obligation and advice: should, ought to,be supposed to, had better
- Tests
- 4. Negatives and questions
- Word order in negatives and questions
- Negative questions and question tags
- Negative words
- Question words
- Other question types
- Tests
- 5. The passive
- Active and passive
- Passives with modals, infinitives and gerunds
- Passive verbs
- The uses of the passive
- Passives with by-phrases and ergatives
- Passives with get
- Tests
- 6. Articles and nouns
- Types of articles and nouns
- Articles: a/an or the
- A/an or one, a/an or no article, the or no article
- Nouns: countable and uncountable
- Nouns: generic, pair, group, plural and singular (+s)
- Possessive and compound nouns
- Articles and nouns in discourse
- Tests
- 7. Determiners and quantifiers
- Determiners
- Quantifiers
- Some and any, no and none
- All and both, half and whole
- Each and every, either and neither
- Many, much and a lot (of), more and most
- (A) few and (a) little, fewer/fewest and less/least
- Multipliers, fractions and percentages
- Tests
- 8. Pronouns, substitution andellipsis
- Personal, generic and possessive pronouns
- Demonstrative and indefinite pronouns
- Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns
- Empty subject it
- Empty subject there
- Substitution: one and ones
- Substitution: so and do so
- Ellipsis
- Tests
- 9. Adjectives and adverbs
- Adjectives: emphasizing, describing, classifying
- Adjectives: position and punctuation
- Participle adjectives, compound adjectives andadjectives as nouns
- Position of adverbs
- adverbs of place, time,frequency, expectation, focus
- Adverbs: degree, manner, viewpoint, comment
- Equatives, comparatives and superlatives
- Tests
- 10. Prepositions
- Prepositions and prepositional phrases
- Prepositions of time: at, in, on, etc.
- Prepositions of time: during, for, since, etc.
- Prepositions of place: at, in, on
- Prepositions of place: above, below, between, etc.
- Prepositions of movement and place: from, across,along, etc.
- Prepositions used for connections: of, with, by
- Prepositions used for exceptions: except (for),besides, without, etc.
- Phrasal verbs
- Tests
- 11. Infinitives and gerunds
- Simple infinitives and gerunds
- Complex infinitives and gerunds
- Verbs with infinitives and gerunds
- Adjectives with infinitives and gerunds
- Nouns and pronouns with infinitives and gerunds
- Tests
- 12. Reporting
- Direct speech
- Indirect speech
- Reporting verbs
- Reporting statements and questions
- Reporting orders, requests, advice and opinions
- Tests
- 13. Noun clauses
- That-clauses and wh-clauses
- Noun clauses as subjects and objects
- Nouns with noun clauses
- Adjectives with noun clauses
- The subjunctive or should in noun clauses
- Uses of noun clauses
- Tests
- 14. Relative clauses
- Relative clauses and relative pronouns
- Defining and non-defining relative clauses
- Reduced relative clauses
- Possessives and pronouns with relative clauses
- Prepositions in relative clauses
- Relative clauses with where, what, whatever, etc.
- Tests
- 15. Conditionals
- Real conditionals
- Unreal conditionals
- Mixed conditionals
- Order and punctuation in conditionals
- The uses of conditionals
- Only if, even if, unless, whether, if so, etc.
- Tests
- 16. Adverbial clauses
- Adverbial clauses and conjunctions
- Time clauses with when, while, as
- Time clauses with after, before, until, since, etc.
- Manner clauses with as, as if, as though, etc.
- Reason clauses with because, as, since, etc.
- Purpose clauses with so that, in order that,in order to, etc.
- Result clauses with so, so . that, such . that
- Contrast clauses with although, though,even though, etc.
- Reduced adverbial clauses
- Tests
- 17. Connectors and focusstructures
- Types of connectors and focus structures
- Connectors, prepositions and conjunctions
- Adding and contrasting connectors
- Result and time connectors
- Listing connectors
- Focus structures: fronting and inversion
- Focus structures: cleft sentences
- Tests
- Answer key
- Exit Test
- Key to the exit test
- Appendix: regular and irregular verbs
- Glossary
- Index
