Advanced Learner’s Grammar A Self Study Reference and Practice Book With Answers

Advanced Learner’s Grammar A Self study Reference and Practice Book with Answers by Mark Foley and Diane Hall

Contents of Advanced Learner’s Grammar

Diagnostic tests
Present tenses ( Diagnostic test , page )
Present simple / make
Present continuous / am making
Verbs rarely used in the continuous believe; have; like; etc
Past tenses ( Diagnostic test , page )
Past simple I made
Past continuous / was making
Past perfect / had made
Past perfect continuous / had been making
Used to I would I used to make; I would make
Past to present tenses ( Diagnostic test , page )
Present perfect simple I have made
Present perfect and past simple – differences
Present perfect continuous / have been making
A Present perfect simple and continuous – differences
Round up (Units – ): Present and past tenses The future ( ) ( Diagnostic test , page )
Prediction he will make; he is going to make; he will be making; etc
Decisions and intentions / will make; I am going to make
Arrangements I’m meeting; I will be meeting
Other future meanings timetables; qualifying future forms; etc
The future ( ) ( Diagnostic test , page )
Expressions with future meaning be to + infinitive; be due to + infinitive; etc
Verbs with future meaning main verbs; modal verbs
Future in the past / was going to make; other forms
Round up (Units and ): The future
Negation ( Diagnostic test page )
Negative statements not; no; neither; etc
Negative questions Haven’t you seen ?
Words which carry negative meaning adverbs; quantifiers; verbs; prefixes
Questions ( Diagnostic test , page )
Closed and open questions Are you busy? Why did she leave?
Tag questions He knows, doesn’t he? He doesn’t know, does he? etc
Indirect questions Can you tell me how long ? I wonder whether
A Echo questions Are you? Has he really?
Passives, causatives and get ( Diagnostic test , page )
Passive forms it is made; he was said to be ; it got broken
Passive -ing forms and infinitives being made; to have been made; etc
have/get + object + past participle / had/got it made; I had my bag stolen
Uses of the passive information order; the ‘unimportant’ agent; etc
Reported speech ( Diagnostic test , page )
Direct and indirect speech ‘There’s a problem ’; He said there was a problem
Indirect statements reporting verbs; changes of pronoun, adverb, tense
Indirect (reported) questions reporting verbs; she asked when it started
Indirect commands and requests reporting verbs; he asked them to wait
Reporting verbs and their patterns advise; offer; threaten; etc
Conditionals ( Diagnostic test , page )
General points on conditionals sentence structures and patterns
Zero conditional If I work late, he makes the dinner
First conditional If I work late tomorrow, he’ll make the dinner
Second conditional If I worked late, he would make the dinner
Third conditional If I’d worked late, he would have made the dinner
Mixed conditionals mixed second/third and third/second conditionals
Alternatives to if unless; provided that; suppose; in case; etc
The subjunctive and ‘unreal’ uses of past forms
( Diagnostic test , page )
The subjunctive form and use; informal alternatives; fixed expressions
The ‘unreal’ past imaginary past, present and future; was or were; what if; etc wish I if only + past simple; + past perfect; + would/could
Round up (Units and ): Conditionals, subjunctive and ‘unreal’ past
Infinitives forms and uses
Verbs followed by -ing forms and infinitives patterns; differences in meaning
Participle and infinitive phrases ( Diagnostic test , page )
Participle phrases – form and use active and passive; participle subjects Types of participle phrase defining phrases; phrases of reason, result; etc
Infinitive phrases – form and use active and passive; as subject/complement
Types of infinitive phrase defining phrases; phrases of purpose and result Uses in discourse to tell the truth; generally speaking
Multi-word verbs ( Diagnostic test , page )
Form and use the four types; formal/informal use; particles
Phrasal verbs I get by I made it up
Prepositional verbs / looked for it I didn’t fall for it
Phrasal-prepositional verbs / look forward to hearing from you
Word list: common multi-word verbs break down; catch on; etc
Dependent prepositions ( Diagnostic test , page )
Word list: dependent preposition patterns belief in; good
Modal verbs ( ): can, could, may, might, be able to
( Diagnostic test , page )
Ability She can speak French I wasn’t able to fix it
Possibility, deduction and speculation There may be life on Mars
Arrangements, suggestions, offers, etc He can see you at six
Asking for and giving/refusing permission May I interrupt?
Modal verbs ( ): must, should, ought to, hove to, need to
( Diagnostic test , page )
Obligation and necessity We must leave early You need to eat something
Prohibition and criticism You mustn’t touch it
Absence of obligation or necessity You don’t have/need to pay
Recommendation and advice You’d better not wait
Logical deduction and probability He must have left
Modal verbs ( ): will, would, shall [ Diagnostic test , page )
Prediction and certainty He’ll be in London now He’ll have arrived
Characteristics, habits and routines It will hold two litres
Willingness and refusal I’ll sign it They wouldn’t change it
Other uses of will/shall/would offers; promises; suggestions; requests; etc
Hypothetical would it would be nice; it would have been a good idea
Round up (Units – ): Modal verbs
I Auxiliaries, hove (got), do ( Diagnostic test , page )
Auxiliary verbs uses; contracted forms
Emphasis It has been a long time! Did you or didn ‘t you take it?
Have and do meanings and uses
Have got for possession; meaning ‘has become/obtained’; etc
Confusing verbs ( Diagnostic test , page )
False synonyms makeldo; have/take; been/gone; speak/talk; etc
Opposite pairs borrow/lend; bringltake
Adjectives ( Diagnostic test , page )
Adjective patterns responsible parents; the person responsible
Participle (-ing or -ed) adjectives / feel frightened; a frightening film
Groups of adjectives adjective order; pairs of adjectives; etc
Comparison ( Diagnostic test , page )
Comparative and superlative adjectives form and use; irregular adjectives
Adjectives with as, so, too, enough and such not as bad as I’d expected
Other types of comparison faster and faster; like and as
Gradable and ungradable adjectives ( Diagnostic test , page )
Modifying gradable adjectives very expensive; slightly dizzy; quite nice
Modifying ungradable adjectives absolutely fabulous; practically freezing
Modifying adjectives in informal English really sorry; dead scary
A Common adverb + adjective collocations bitterly cold: deeply moving
Adverbs ( Diagnostic test , page )
Form formation and types; adverbs with two forms
Use modifying and adding information; use in comparisons
Position of adverbs in sentences front, mid and final position
Sentence adverbs viewpoint and attitude adverbs – use in discourse
Nouns and noun phrases ( Diagnostic test , page )
Basic points form and meaning; gender
Singular and plural nouns regular/irregular plurals: plural form nouns
Countable and uncountable nouns use; different meanings; a piece/bit of
Agreement plural subjects; plural form and group nouns
Nominalisation making verbs/verb phrases into nouns/noun phrases
Possessives and compound nouns ( Diagnostic test page )
Form and meaning possessive forms; rules
The genitive (’s) or of structure which form to use
Specifying or classifying possessives and compound nouns sports shop
Pronouns ( Diagnostic test , page )
Personal pronouns omission of pronouns; subject or object forms: one-, etc
Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns -selfI-selves; each other/one another
Impersonal pronouns use of you I we I they I one
A Indefinite pronouns and adverbs somebody; anything; no one; etc
Determiners ( Diagnostic test , page )
Articles althelno article for naming, describing and classifying; etc
Demonstratives this/that/these/those as adjectives and pronouns
Quantifiers no; none; half; both; some; all; etc
Prepositions ( Diagnostic test , page )
Introduction basic information; preposition or adverb?
Meaning and use prepositions of position, movement, time, reason; etc
Prepositional phrases formation; stranded prepositions
Word order and verb patterns ( Diagnostic test , page )
Word order in English subject-verb-object word order and variations
Verb patterns verb + complement; verb + prepositional phrase; etc
Linking clauses coordination; subordination
Relative clauses ( Diagnostic test , page AO)
Relative clauses subject/object relatives; defining/non-defining relatives; etc
Relative pronouns and adverbs who, etc; modifying pronouns; whichever, etc
Contrast ( Diagnostic test , page )
Conjunctions of contrast but; while; although; yet; etc
Prepositions of contrast despite; in spite of
Adverbs of contrast however; nevertheless; even so; still; etc
Introductory there and it Diagnostic test , page )
Introductory there as ‘empty’ subject; there + be
Introductory/impersonal it as ‘empty’ subject; introducing certain topics; describing impersonal/general feelings; using it in discourse
Emphatic structures and inversion ( Diagnostic test , page )
Cleft sentences lack was the guy who told us
Fronting that I disagree with; attached to the roof was an aerial
Inversion little did we realise; never have I seen; so are we
Aspects Of cohesion ( Diagnostic test , page )
Types of text reference substitution; ellipsis; anaphoric and cataphoric reference
Substitution substituting nouns, verbs, clauses
Ellipsis omitting nouns, pronouns, verbs, infinitives and wh- clauses
Features Of discourse ( Diagnostic test page )
Ordering information the information principle; the end-weight principle; etc
Discourse devices types of linking; reference; parallelism