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31 Adverbial clauses 327 32 Conditi
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VIII Acknowledgements The author an
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PAGE 1 1 English grammar 1 Summary
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PAGE 3 4 Phrases 2 There are eight
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PAGE 5 6 English compared with othe
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PAGE 7 8 Intransitive and transitiv
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PAGE 9 9 Linking verbs 9 Linking ve
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PAGE 11 10 Give, send etc 3 Which p
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PAGE 13 13 And and or 2 We can add
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PAGE 15 Statements, questions, impe
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PAGE 21 19 The imperative 19 The im
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PAGE 23 19 The imperative 5 The imp
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PAGE 33 29 Answering questions 2 We
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PAGE 37 33 Indirect questions When
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PAGE 39 34 Question tags 2 Overview
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PAGE 41 35 Echo questions and echo
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PAGE 43 38 Leaving out words after
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PAGE 45 42 Leaving out words at the
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PAGE 47 43 Patterns with so, neithe
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PAGE 49 44 Some other ways of avoid
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PAGE 51 45 Special styles 4 Postcar
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PAGE 53 47 Word order and informati
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PAGE 55 49 Front position 48 The su
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PAGE 57 50 The empty subjects there
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PAGE 61 51 Emphasis 51 Emphasis MUS
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PAGE 63 51 Emphasis b Look at these
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PAGE 65 53 Grammar in speech and wr
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PAGE 67 54 Stress and intonation Th
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PAGE 71 56 Punctuation 3 Sub clause
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PAGE 75 8 The verb phrase 57 Summar
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PAGE 77 60 The structure of the ver
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PAGE 79 62 Action verbs and state v
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PAGE 81 62 Action verbs and state v
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PAGE 83 64 Present continuous and p
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PAGE 85 65 Present perfect and past
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PAGE 87 65 Present perfect and past
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PAGE 89 66 Past continuous With tod
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PAGE 91 67 Present perfect continuo
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PAGE 93 68 Past perfect and past pe
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PAGE 95 10 The future 70 Summary Th
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PAGE 97 72 Be going to Won't can ex
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PAGE 99 75 The future continuous: w
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PAGE 101 78 Other ways of expressin
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PAGE 103 81 Overview: the future b
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PAGE 105 84 The ordinary verb be 83
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PAGE 107 85 Have (got) Possession:
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PAGE 109 86 The ordinary verb have
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PAGE 111 88 The ordinary verb do 4
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PAGE 113 12 Modal verbs 90 Summary
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PAGE 115 92 Necessity 4 A modal ver
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PAGE 117 92 Necessity In the past s
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PAGE 119 94 Permission 2 Had better
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PAGE 121 96 Probability NOTE a In i
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PAGE 123 97 Possibility 2 Can and c
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PAGE 125 99 Unreal situations: woul
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PAGE 127 101 The verb dare 100 Habi
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PAGE 129 102 Overview: the use of m
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104 The use of the passive The pass
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PAGE 133 104 The use of the passive
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PAGE 135 105 Tenses and aspects in
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PAGE 137 108 The passive with verbs
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PAGE 139 110 Passive + to-infinitiv
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PAGE 141 112 The passive to-infinit
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PAGE 145 For and of with a to-infin
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PAGE 147 119 The to-infinitive: pur
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PAGE 149 121 To-infinitive or gerun
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PAGE 159 15 The gerund 128 Summary
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PAGE 161 131 Some patterns with the
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PAGE 163 132 Preposition + gerund W
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PAGE 167 16 Participles 134 Summary
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PAGE 169 137 Participle + noun Here
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PAGE 171 139 Participle clauses of
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PAGE 173 140 Verb + object + partic
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PAGE 175 17 Nouns and noun phrases
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PAGE 177 143 Noun phrases 143 Noun
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PAGE 179 144 Countable and uncounta
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PAGE 183 145 The plural of nouns e
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PAGE 185 146 The possessive form 2
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PAGE 187 147 Two nouns together 147
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PAGE 189 148 Phrases after a noun b
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PAGE 191 18 Agreement 150 Summary S
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PAGE 193 153 One of, a number of, e
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PAGE 195 2 Plural form - singular v
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PAGE 197 157 Number in the subject
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PAGE 199 159 The form of the articl
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PAGE 201 160 The basic use of the a
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PAGE 203 162 The article in general
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PAGE 207 169 Articles in phrases of
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8 Phrases with last and next These
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PAGE 213 20 Possessives and demonst
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174 Possessives 5 A friend of mine
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PAGE 219 21 Quantifiers 6 Summary A
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241 Tenses in sub clauses 2 Verbs a
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30 And, or, but, so etc 243 Summary
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PAGE 325 246 Words meaning 'but' 24
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2 We can use a gerund after before,
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PAGE 331 253 Other adverbial clause
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PAGE 333 32 Conditional clauses 255
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PAGE 341 33 Noun clauses 260 Summar
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PAGE 343 262 Patterns with noun cla
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PAGE 347 264 Introduction to indire
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PAGE 349 266 Tell, say and ask 3 A
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PAGE 355 2 Offers, warnings, apolog
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PAGE 361 273 Relative clauses witho
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PAGE 363 276 Participle relative cl
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PAGE 367 36 Word-building 282 Summa
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PAGE 369 284 Prefixes 284 Prefixes
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c d e PAGE 371 Verb + ant/ent: Noun
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PAGE 373 288 Nationality words The
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PAGE 379 294 Consonant + y 294 Cons
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PAGE 381 298 Irregular plural endin
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PAGE 383 300 List of irregular verb
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PAGE 385 300 List of irregular verb
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PAGE 391 303 Differences with verbs
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PAGE 397 Glossary abstract noun See
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PAGE 399 GLOSSARY finite A finite v
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PAGE 401 GLOSSARY pair noun a plura
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PAGE 403 GLOSSARY sub clause See ma
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PAGE 405 adjective summary 197 and
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PAGE 407 anticipatory it 50(5) anxi
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PAGE 409 be about to 78(1a) past 80
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PAGE 413 copula (linking verb) 9 co
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PAGE 419 after phrasal/prepositiona
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PAGE 423 intention + to -infinitive
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PAGE 427 mustn't 92(4) indirect spe
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PAGE 429 INDEX after noun 160(3), 1
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PAGE 431 past simple 65 in conditio
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PAGE 433 present perfect continuous
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PAGE 435 relationship between/with
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PAGE 437 sentence 2(3) sentence adv
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PAGE 439 with phrasal/prepositional
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