John Eastwood -- Oxford Practice Grammar with Answers

1 Second edition Oxford Practice Grammar with Answers John Eastwood Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Thanks Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP. The author and publisher would like to thank: Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai all the teachers in the United Kingdom and Italy who Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi discussed this book in the early stages of its Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico development;. City Mumbai Nairobi Sao Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto the teachers and students of the following schools who used and commented on the pilot units of the with an associated company in Berlin first edition: The Bell School of Languages, Bowthorpe Hall, Oxford and Oxford English Norwich are trade marks of Oxford University Press.

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4 Illustrated by Richard Coggan Designed by Richard Morris, Stonesfield Design Typeset by Tradespools Ltd., Frome, Somerset Printed in China Contents Introduction page vi 28 Will be doing 70. Key to symbols vii 29 Will have done and was going to 72. Starting test viii 30 Review of the future 74. Test 7: The future 76. Words and sentences 31 The verb have 78. 1 Word classes: nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc 2 32 Short forms, it's, don't 80. 2 Sentence structure: subject, verb , object, etc 4 33 Emphatic do 82. 3 Direct and indirect objects 6. Questions, negatives and Answers Verbs 34 Yes/no questions 84. 4 The present continuous 8 35 Short Answers , Yes, it is. 86. 5 The present simple 10 36 Wh-questions 88. 6 Present continuous or simple? 12 37 Subject/object questions 90. 7 State verbs and action verbs 14 38 Prepositions in wh-questions 92.

5 Test 1: Present tenses 16 39 Who, what or which? 94. Test 8: Questions 96. 8 The past simple 18. 9 The past continuous 20 40 Negative statements 98. 10 Past continuous or simple? 22 41 Negative questions 100. Test 2: Past simple and past continuous 24 42 Question tags, isn't it? 102. 43 So/Neither do I and I think so 104. 11 The present perfect (1) 26. Test 9: Questions, negatives and Answers 106. 12 The present perfect (2): just, already, yet;. for and since 28. 13 The present perfect (3): ever, this week, etc 30 Modal verbs 14 Present perfect or past simple? (1) 32 44 Ability: can, could and be able to 108. 15 Present perfect or past simple? (2) 34 45 Permission: can, may, could and Test 3: Present perfect and past simple 36 be allowed to 110. 46 Possibility and certainty: may, might, could, 16 The present perfect continuous 38.

6 Must, etc 112. 17 Present perfect continuous or simple? 40. 47 Necessity: must and have to 114. 18 The past perfect 42. 48 Necessity: mustn't, needn't, etc 116. 19 Review of the past simple, continuous and 49 Should, ought to, had better and perfect 44. be supposed to 118. 20 The past perfect continuous 46. 50 Asking people to do things 120. Test 4: Past and perfect tenses 48. 51 Suggestions, offers and invitations 122. 21 Review of present and past tenses 50 52 Will, would, shall and should 124. Test 5: Present and past tenses 54 53 It may/could/must have been, etc 126. Test 10: Modal verbs 128. 22 Introduction to the future 56. 23 Will and shall 58. 24 Be going to 60 The passive 25 Will and be going to 62 54 Passive verb forms 130. 26 Present tenses for the future 64 55 Active and passive (1) 132.

7 27 When I get there, before you leave, etc 66 56 Active and passive (2) 134. Test 6: The future with will, be going to 57 Special passive structures 136. and present tenses 68 58 Have something done 73$. 59 To be done and being done 140. Test 11: The passive 142. The infinitive and the ing-form This, my, some, a lot of, all, etc 60 verb + to-infinitive 144 91 This, that, these and those 216. 61 verb + ing-form 146 92 My, your, etc and mine, yours, etc 218. 62 verb + to-infinitive or verb + ing-form? 148 93 The possessive form and of 220. 63 Like, start, etc 150 94 Some and any 222. 64 Remember, regret, try, etc 152 95 A lot of, many, much, (a) few Test 12: verb + to-infinitive or ing-form 154 and (a) little 224. 96 All, half, most, some, no and none 226. 65 verb + object + to-infinitive or ing-form 156.

8 97 Every, each, whole, both, either 66 Question word + to-infinitive 158. and neither 228. 67 Adjective + to-infinitive 160. Test 16: This, my, some, a lot of, all, etc 230. 68 For with the to-infinitive 162. 69 The infinitive with and without to 164. 70 verb /Adjective + preposition + ing-form 166 Pronouns 71 Afraid to do or afraid of doing? 168 98 Personal pronouns, I, you 232. 72 Used to do and be used to doing 170 99 There and it 234. 73 Preposition or linking word + ing-form 172 100 Reflexive pronouns 236. 74 See it happen or see it happening? 174 101 Emphatic pronouns and each other 238. 75 Some structures with the ing-form 176 102 The pronoun one/ones 240. Test 13: The infinitive and the ing-form 178 103 Everyone, something, etc 242. Test 17: Pronouns 244. Nouns and articles (a/an and the).

9 76 Ship and water: countable and uncountable Adjectives and adverbs nouns 180 104 Adjectives 246. 77 A carton of milk, a piece of 105 The order of adjectives 248. information, etc 182 106 The old, the rich, etc 250. 78 Nouns that can be either countable or 107 Interesting and interested 252. uncountable 184 108 Adjective or adverb? (1) 254. 79 Agreement 186 109 Adjective or adverb? (2) 256. 80 Singular or plural? 188 Test 18: Adjectives and adverbs 258. 81 Pair nouns and group nouns 190. 110 Comparative and superlative forms 260. 82 Two nouns together 192. 111 Comparative and superlative patterns (1) 264. Test 14: Nouns and agreement 194. 112 Comparative and superlative patterns (2) 266. 83 A/an and the (1) 196 Test 19: Comparative and superlative 268. 84 A/an and the (2) 198.

10 113 Adverbs and word order 270. 85 A/an, one and some 200. 114 Yet, still and already 274. 86 Cars or the cars? 202. 115 Adverbs of degree, very, quite 276. 87 Prison, school, bed, etc 204. 116 Quite and rather 278. 88 On Friday, for lunch, etc 206. 117 Too and enough 280. 89 Quite a, such a, what a, etc 208. Test 20: Adverbs and word order 282. 90 Place names and the 210. Test 15: A/an and the 214. Prepositions Conditionals and wish 118 Prepositions of place 284 144 Conditionals (1) 346. 119 In, on and at (place) 288 145 Conditionals (2) 348. 120 In, on and at (time) 290 146 Conditionals (3) 350. 121 For, since, ago and before 292 147 Review of conditionals 352. 122 During or while? By or until? As or like? 294 148 If, when, unless and in case 354. 123 Preposition + noun, on holiday 296 149 Wish and if only 356.