Includes index.

''The popular Grammar practice series has been thoroughly revised and updated. With a focus on context and communication, the 3rd EDITION helps learners make the leap from practice to production more easily.

Key features: short, clear and simple grammar explanations appropriate to the level a wide variety of interesting and stimulating exercises write-in space on the page detailed contents page and grammar index

New in this edition revised syllabus linked to the Council of Europe framework vocabulary sections, including phrasal verbs and word formation regular checks to review understanding and progress further practice, Checks and tests on the interactive CD-ROM useful appendices, including spelling rules, verb patterns, lists of dependent prepositions and phrasal verbs'' (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

GRAMMAR

Nouns, pronouns and determiners

NOUNS AND DETERMINERS
1. Singular and plural nouns
2. Countable and uncountable nouns
3. Quantifiers (some, any, etc.)
4. all (of), most (of), some (of), no, none of
5. each (of), every, each/every one (of)
6. both (of), either (of), neither (of)

Check 1 Nouns and determiners

PRONOUNS AND POSSESSIVES
7. Possessive's, possessive of
8. Reflexive pronouns
9. (of/on) my own, by myself
10. something, anything, etc.
11. one, ones, another, other

Check 2 Pronouns and possessives

ARTICLES
12. Definite and indefinite article
13. Use of articles with general meaning
14. Special uses of articles

Check 3 Articles

Adjectives and adverbs, comparison

ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
15. Position and order of adjectives
16. Adjective or adverb?
17. Position and order of adverbs
18. Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
19. Modifying comparisons
20. Adverbs of degree: very, extremely, etc.

Check 4 Adjectives and adverbs

COMPARATIVE STRUCTURES
21. Making comparisons with nouns
22. as..as, the same as, similar to, different from
23. too, enough, very
24. so..that, such (a/an)..that
25 Other comparative structures

Check 5 Comparative structures

Tenses

PRESENT TENSES
26. Present simple or present continuous?
27. State verbs

PAST TENSES
28. Past simple
29. Past simple and past continuous
30. used to / would, be / get used to

Check 6 Present and past tenses

PERFECT TENSES
31. Present perfect for recent events
32. Present perfect for general experiences
33. Present perfect with stated time reference
34. Present perfect continuous
35. Present perfect, past simple or present simple?

Check 7 Present perfect (simple and continuous)
36. Past perfect
37. Past perfect and past simple
38. Past tenses in narratives

Check 8 Narrative tenses

FUTURE FORMS 39. will and be going to 40. Present simple and continuous for future 41. Future continuous 42. Future perfect 43. Future in the past

Check 9 Future forms

MODAL VERBS 44. Ability and possibility 45. Degrees of certainty (present and future) 46. Speculating about the past 47. Permission 48. Obligation and necessity 49. need (to) 50. Advice and recommendations 51. Requests, offers and suggestions

Check 10 Modal verbs

Sentence and text structure

STATEMENTS AND QUESTIONS
52. Basic sentence types and word orders
53. Direct and indirect objects
54. Making questions
55. Question words as subject or object
56. Negative questions
57. Question tags
58. Reply questions
59. Avoiding repetition: so, too, neither, etc.

Check 11 Statement and questions

-ING FORMS AND INFINITIVES
60. Verbs followed by -ing form or to -infinitive (1)
61. Verbs followed by -ing form or to -infinitive (2)
62. Verbs followed by object + (to)-infinitive
63. Infinitive of purpose, in order to, for +- ing form
64. Expression with -ing form
65. Adjectives followed by to-infinitive

Check 12 -ing forms and infinitives

THE PASSIVE
66. The passive
67. The causative: have/ get something done

Check 13 The passive

REPORTED SPEECH
68. Reported statements: tense changes
69. Reported statements: other changes
70. Reported statements with no tense change
71. Reporting verbs
72. Reported questions
73. Reported commands and requests
74. I think that..., do you know if.., I wonder why..
75. Question words + to-infinitive

Check 14 Reported speech

RELATIVE CLAUSES
76. Defining relative clauses
77. Non-defining relative clauses
78. Other ways of identifying people and things

Check 15 Relative clauses

CONDITIONALS
79. The zero and first conditionals
80. unless, provided that, as long as, in case
81. The second conditional
82. The third conditional
83. I wish

Check 16 Conditionals

LINKING WORDS AND STRUCTURES
84. Adding and listing
85. Contrast
86. Reason, cause, purpose and result
87. Manner: as if, as though, like
88. Common linking expressions in speech

Check 17 Linkers
89. Future time clauses
90. Sequence in narratives

Vocabulary

PREPOSITIONS
91. Prepositions of place and movement
92. Prepositions of time
93. as, like
94. Prepositional phrases

Check 19 Prepositions

WORDS THAT GO TOGETHER
95. Adjective / Noun + preposition
96. Verb + preposition
97. Phrasal verbs
98. Phrasal-prepositional verbs

Check 20 Words that go together

WORD FORMATION
99. Compound adjectives
100. Prefixes
101. Forming adjectives
102. Forming nouns

Check 21 Word formation

Appendices

Index

Answer key

CD-ROM