> Advanced » With answers George Yule Oxfo rd Practice Grammar Supplementary Exercises Ideal for self-study tit Sa OXFORDContents Introduction Sentences Simple sentences and verbs Subjects and verbs Verbs and objects Verbs with indirect objects and clauses Linking verbs ‘Compound and complex sentences Tenses Verbs, auxiliary verbs and tenses Present and present perfect Past and past perfect Present perfect or past simple or past perfect? Fature Modals Modals and phrasal modals Complex modals Prediction, willingness, habits and preferences: will, would, etc. Ability and permission: can, could, ete. Possibility: may, inight, etc. Necessity: must, have to, etc. Deduction and obligation: must, cart, should, etc, Negatives and questions Word order in negatives and questions Negative questions and question tags Negative words Question words Other question types ‘The passive Active and passive Passives with modals, infinitives and gerunds Passive verbs ‘The uses of the passive Passives with by-phrases and ergatives; passives with get NaueeNnn oo 10 2 B B 4 15 16 7 18 19 20 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Articles and nouns ‘Types of articles and nouns Articles: a/an or the A/an or one, a/an or no article, the or noarticle Nouns: countable and uncountable Nouns: generic, pair, group, plural and singular (+s) Possessive and compound nouns Articles and nouns in discourse Determiners and quantifiers Determiners Quantifiers Someand any, no and none All, both, half, whole, each, every, either and neither ‘Many, much and a lot (of), moreand most (A) few, (a) little, etc., muultipliers, fractions and percentages Pronouns, substitution and ellipsis Personal, generic and possessive pronouns Demonstrative and indefinite pronouns Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns Empty subjects itand there Substitution: one, ones, so and do so Ellipsis Adjectives and adverbs Adjectives: emphasizing, describing, classifying Adjectives: position and punctuation Participle adjectives, compound adjectives and adjectives as nouns Position of adverbs; adverbs of place, time, frequency, expectation, focus Adverbs: degree, manner, viewpoint, comment Equatives, comparatives and superlatives 30 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 37 38 39 44 45 46 48 49 49 50, 51 52 53 a10 2 1B 4 15 Wv Prepositions Prepositions and prepositional phrases Prepositions of time: af, in, on, during, for, since, etc. Prepositions of place: at, in, on, above, below, between, etc. Prepositions of movement and place: from, across, along, etc. Prepositions used for connections and exceptions: of with, except, etc. Phrasal verbs Infinitives and gerunds Simple infinitives and gerunds Verbs with infinitives and gerunds ‘Adjectives, nouns and pronouns with infinitives and gerunds Reporting, Direct speech Indirect speech Reporting verbs Reporting statements and questions Reporting orders, requests, advice and opinions Noun clauses ‘That-clauses and wh-clauses Noun clauses as subjects and objects Nouns with noun clauses Adjectives with noun clauses; the subjunctive or should Uses of noun clauses Relative clauses Relative clauses and relative pronouns Defining and non-defining relative clauses Reduced relative clauses Possessives, pronouns and prepositions in relative clauses Relative clauses with where, what, whatever, etc. Conditionals Real conditionals Unreal conditionals Mixed conditionals, order and punctuation ‘The uses of conditionals Only if, even if, unless, whether, ifs, etc. 355 355 37 58 59 60 6 61 62 63 64 65 65 66 67 68 69 70 70 n 72 73 74 75 75 76 77 78 79 80 80 81 83 84 16 7 ‘Adverbial clauses Adverbial clauses and conjunctions Time clauses Manner clauses and reason clauses Purpose clauses and result clauses, Contrast clauses and reduced adverbial clauses Connectors and focus structures Connectors Connectors, prepositions and conjunctions Adding and contrasting connectors Result, time and listing connectors Focus structures Answer key 85 85 87 88 89 90 90 92 93 94 95