English

Advanced
Language Practice
with key

Michael Vince
with Peter Sunderland

English Grammar and
Vocabulary
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Contents
Introduction

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Grammar 1

Present time
Basic contrasts: present simple and present continuousState verbs and event (action or dynamic) verbs
State verbs normally without a continuous form
Difference of meaning in stative and active verbs
Other uses of present continuous
Other uses of present simple

Grammar 2

Future time
Basic contrasts: will, going to, present continuous
Future continuous
Future perfect
Other ways of referring to the future
Other future references

Grammar 3Past time
Basic contrasts: past simple and past continuous
Past perfect simple and continuous
Used to and would
Unfulfilled past events
Polite forms
Contrast with present perfect

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Grammar 4

Present perfect
Present perfect simple
Present perfect continuous
Contrast of present perfect simple and present perfect continuous
Time expressions with present perfect

21Grammar 6

Passive 1
Basic uses
Using and not mentioning the agent

33

Grammar 7

Passive 2
Have and get something done, need doir,
Passive get
Reporting verbs
Verbs with prepositions
Common contexts for the passive

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ADVANCED

LANGUAGE

PRACTICE

Grammar 8

Conditionals
Basic usage: truths, real situations, hypothetical situations (present
and past)
Variations:if only, unless, and other alternatives to if, past events
with results in the present, should, were to, happen to, if it were not for,
if it hadn't been for
Other ways of making a conditional sentence: supposing, otherwise,
but for, if so, if not, colloquial omission of if, if and adjectives,
if meaning although

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Grammar 9

Unreal time and subjunctives
It's time, it's high timeWishes
I'd rather and I'd sooner, I'd prefer
As if, as though
Suppose and imagine
Formal subjunctives
Formulaic subjunctive

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Grammar 11

Grammar 12

IV

Modals: present and future
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Don't have to and must not: absence of obligation, obligation not
to do something
Should: expectation, recommendation, criticism of an action,
uncertainty with verbs of thinking, with be andadjectives describing chance
after in case to emphasise unlikelihood
Could: possibility or uncertainty, with comparative adjectives to
express possibility or impossibility, suggestions, unwillingness
Can: criticism, capability
Must and can't: certainty, present time reference only
May and might: although clauses, may/might as well, possibility or
uncertainty with try
Shall: certainty, what...