Grammar for CAE and Proficiency.

2009. — 296 p.

Cambridge Grammar for CAE and Proficiency provides complete coverage of the grammar needed for both CAE and Proficiency with plenty of exam practice at the same time. Grammar is presented in a listening context giving students the chance to hear it being used in realistic situations and making it easier to remember. It includes the full range of exam tasks from the Reading, Writing and Listening papers and shows how grammar knowledge is tested in each of these. Informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus, grammar is presented in genuine contexts and the book covers the errors students really make.

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Contents
Introduction vii
Simple and continuous tenses; perfect tenses; present perfect continuous and past
perfect continuous 1
Will, be going to + infinitive, shall; present tenses for the future; future continuous,
future perfect and future perfect continuous; he to + infinitive; future in the past 13
Ability; possibility; conclusions, willingness, habitual events; necessity, deduction;
'not necessary'; obligation 24
Complex modal forms; dare and need; had better; be allowed to; be supposed to; other
verbs with modal meanings 34
Compound nouns and noun phrases; subject-verb agreement; countable and
uncountable nouns; articles 43
No, none, not a, not any; much, many, а Ы of, lots of; all, both, whole; every, each; (a/the)
few, little; less, fewer; much, many, etc. + (of) 53
Position of adverbs; quite, rather, already, yet, still, even, only, really, position of
adjectives; gradable adjectives; patterns after adjectives 62
Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs; comparisons
with as ...; comparisons with so ..., too ..., enough 71
Verbs with two objects; verb + object + adjective; verb + reflexive pronoun;
verb + each other I one another 81
Verb + to-infinitive / -ing; verb + (object) + bare infinitive; verb + object +
fo-infinitive / -ing; verb + object / possessive + -ing; other patterns after verbs 90
Defining and non-defining relative clauses; relative pronouns; other words
beginning relative clauses; prepositions in relative clauses 101
Participle clauses; to-infinitive clauses; adjective phrases; prepositional phrases 111
Adverbial clauses including time clauses, contrast and concession clauses, reason
clauses, purpose and result clauses 120
Real and unreal conditionals; if... not and unless; even if and even though; if only
and wish; other conditional expressions 129
Participle clauses including present participle (-ing) clauses, past participle (-ed)
clauses, participle clauses after conjunctions and prepositions, to-infinitive clauses,
reduced clauses 138
That- noun clauses; wh- noun clauses; whether and if 145
Sentence conjunctions and connectors including: before, until; hardly, no sooner,
scarcely; first (ly), at first, last(ly), at last; however; even so, even though; on the
other hand, on the contrary; as well as, apart from, because of, besides, despite I
in spite of, due to, during 153
Using the passive; active and passive verb forms; passive forms of verbs with two
objects; get + past participle; get/have + object + past participle 161
Structures in the reported clause - that- clause, to-infinitive and -ing; verb tense
in reporting; modal verbs in reporting; reporting questions; should in that- clauses;
present subjunctive 172
One/ones; so + auxiliary verb + subject; neither; nor, not... either; do so;
leaving out words after auxiliary verbs and after to 182
Fronting; cleft sentences; inversion; inversion in conditional sentences 192
Nominalised forms; do, give, have, make, take + noun 201
Introductory it as subject and object; there; common expressions with it's no
and there's no 209
Complex prepositions; verb + preposition: common patterns; phrasal verbs:
word order 218
Noun + preposition: related verbs and adjectives; noun + preposition + -ing or
noun + preposition + noun; noun + of+ -ing or noun + to-infinitive; noun + in or
noun + of; adjective + preposition 227
Key 234
Recording scripts 259
Appendices 287
CDtracklist 296

To the student
Who is this hook for?
This book is for anyone preparing for the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) or Certificate of Proficiency in English (Proficiency/CPE) exams and covers the grammar needed for these exams. You can use it to support a CAE or Proficiency coursebook, for extra grammar practice on a general English language course, or with practice tests as part of a revision programme. You can use in it class or for self-study.
How do I use this book?
There are two ways to use this book. You can either start at Unit 1 and work through to the end of the book, or you can do the online Entry test to find out which units you need most practice in and begin with those.

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