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
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- 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