English grammar in use

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 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 For and since When ...? and How long ...
• 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 got and have
• 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 ifModals
• 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 Have to and must
• 32 Must mustn't needn't
• 33 Should (1)
• 34 Should (2)
• 35 Had better It's time ...
• 36 Would
• 37 Can/Could/Would you ...? etc. (Requests, offers, permission and invitations)Conditionals and 'wish'
• 38 If I do ... If I did ...
• 39 If I knew ... I wish I knew ...
• 40 If I had known ... I wish I'd known ...
• 41 WishPassive
• 42 Passive (1) (is done / was done)
• 43 Passive (2) (be/been/being done)
• 44 Passive (3)
• 45 It is said that ... He is said to ... (be) supposed to
• 46 Have something doneReported speech
• 47 Reported speech (1) (He said that ...)
• 48 Reported speech (2)Questions and auxiliary verbs
• 49 Questions (1)
• 50 Questions (2) (Do you know where ...? / She asked me where ...)
• 51 Auxiliary verbs (have/do/can etc.) I think so / I hope so etc.
• 52 Question tags (do you? isn't it? etc.)-ing and the infinitive
• 53 Verb + -ing (enjoy doing / stop doing etc.)
• 54 Verb + to ... (decide to do / forget to do etc.)
• 55 Verb (+ object) + to ... (I want to do / I want you to do)
• 56 Verb + -ing or to ... (1) (remember/regret etc.)
• 57 Verb + -ing or to ... (2) (try/need/help)
• 58 Verb + -ing or to ... (3) (like / would like etc.)
• 59 Prefer and would rather
• 60 Preposition (in/for/about etc.) + -ing
• 61 Be/get used to something (I'm used to ...)
• 62 Verb + preposition + -ing (succeed in -ing / accuse somebody of -ing etc.)
• 63 Expressions + -ing
• 64 To ..., for ..., and so that ... (purpose)
• 65 Adjective + to ...
• 66 To ... and preposition + -ing (afraid/interested/sorry)
• 67 See somebody do and see somebody doing
• 68 -ing clauses (Feeling tired, I went to bed early.)Articles and nouns
• 69 Countable and uncountable (1)
• 70 Countable and uncountable (2)
• 71 Countable nouns with a/an and some
• 72 A/an and the
• 73 The (1)
• 74 The (2) (School / the school)
• 75 The (3) (Children / the children)
• 76 The (4) (The giraffe / the telephone / the piano etc., the + adjective)
• 77 Names with and without the (1)
• 78 Names with and without the (2)
• 79 Singular and plural
• 80 Noun + noun (a tennis ball / a headache etc.)
• 81 -'s (your sister's name) and of ... (the name of the book)Pronouns and determiners
• 82 Myself/yourself/themselves etc.
• 83 A friend of mine My own house On my own / by myself
• 84 There ... and it ...
• 85 Some and any
• 86 No/none/any Nothing/nobody
• 87 Much, many, little, few, a lot, plenty
• 88 All / all of most / most of no / none of etc.
• 89 Both / both of neither / neither of either / either of
• 90 All, every and whole
• 91 Each and everyRelative clauses
• 92 Relative clauses (1): clauses with who/that/which
• 93 Relative clauses (2): clauses with or without who/that/which
• 94 Relative clauses (3): whose/whom/where
• 95 Relative clauses (4): extra information clauses 1
• 96 Relative clauses (5): extra information clauses 2
• 97 -ing and -ed clauses (the woman talking to Tom, the boy injured in the accident)