目錄
導語
About the author
About the series
Foreword
Introduction
Key grammatical terminology
The sounds of British English
1 Singular and plural
2 Countable and uncountable nouns
3 Containers, quantities and pieces
4 Subject and object pronouns
5 Reflexive pronouns
6 Possessives
7 This, that, these, those
8 Articles
9 Some and any
10 Much, many, a lot of, lots of, plenty of, a great deal of
11 Few and a few; little and a little
12 Other quantifiers
13 Adjective order
14 Comparatives
15 Superlatives
16 Comparisons: as... as, not as... as, the same as, like
17 Comparisons: too and enough
18 Prepositions of place
19 Prepositions of movement
20 Prepositions of time
21 Have and have got
22 Present simple: be
23 Present simple: affirmative
24 Present simple: negative
25 Present simple: questions
26 Imperatives
27 Adverbs of frequency
28 Present progressive: affirmative ('now' meaning)
29 Present progressive: negative and questions
30 Present progressive contrasted with present simple
31 Past simple: be
32 Past simple: regular verbs
33 Past simple: irregular verbs
34 Past simple: questions and short answers
35 Past simple: negative
36 Past progressive: 'in progress'
37 Past progressive: 'interrupted actions'
38 Present perfect: Haveyou ever...?
39 Present perfect:just
40 Present perfect: 'up to now'
41 Time words: already, yet and always
42 Time words: for and since
43 Present perfect progressive
44 Past perfect simple
45 Past perfect progressive
46 Will
47 Going to
48 Will contrasted with going to
49 Present progressive: 'future arrangements'
50 Future progressive and future perfect
51 Requests, orders, offers, permission: can, could, will, would, may, might
52 Ability: can, can't, could, couldn't, be able to
53 Obligation and compulsion: must, have to, should, ought
54 Possibility and certainty: may, might, could, must, must have, can't,
can't have
55 Modal verbs: an overview
56 Zero conditional
57 First conditional
58 Second conditional
59 Third conditional
60 Passives
61 Causatives
62 Multi-word verbs
63 Direct and reported speech
64 Used to
65 Question tags
66 Relative pronouns (adverbs) and relative clauses
67 Defining and non-defining relative clauses
68 'd better / had better
69 Two-verb structures: -ing or infinitive?
70 In case
Further reading
Author acknowledgements
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