(Contents) English Grammar in Use
Raymond Murphy, Fifth Edition 2019, Cambridge University Press
Table of Contents
Present and past
- 1 Present continuous (I am doing)
- 2 Present simple (I do)
- 3 Present continuous and present simple 1 (I am doing and I do)
- 4 Present continuous and present simple 2 (I am doing and I do)
- 5 Past simple (I did)
- 6 Past continuous (I was doing)
Present perfect and past
- 7 Present perfect 1 (I have done)
- 8 Present perfect 2 (I have done)
- 9 Present perfect continuous (I have been doing)
- 10 Present perfect continuous and simple (I have been doing and I have done)
- 11 how long have you (been) … ?
- 12 for and since when … ? and how long … ?
- 13 Present perfect and past 1 (I have done and I did)
- 14 Present perfect and past 2 (I have done and I did)
- 15 Past perfect (I had done)
- 16 Past perfect continuous (I had been doing)
- 17 have and have got
- 18 used to (do)
Future
- 19 Present tenses (I am doing / I do) for the future
- 20 I’m going to (do)
- 21 will and shall 1
- 22 will and shall 2
- 23 I will and I’m going to
- 24 will be doing and will have done
- 25 when I do and when I’ve done if and when
Modals
- 26 can, could and (be) able to
- 27 could (do) and could have (done)
- 28 must and can’t
- 29 may and might 1
- 30 may and might 2
- 31 have to and must
- 32 must mustn’t needn’t
- 33 should 1
- 34 should 2
- 35 I’d better … it’s time …
- 36 would
- 37 can/could/would you … ? etc. (Requests, offers, permission and invitations)
if and wish
- 38 if I do … and if I did …
- 39 if I knew … I wish I knew …
- 40 if I had known … I wish I had known …
- 41 wish
Passive
- 42 Passive 1 (is done / was done)
- 43 Passive 2 (be done / been done / being done)
- 44 Passive 3
- 45 it is said that … he is said to … he is supposed to …
- 46 have something done
Reported speech
- 47 Reported speech 1 (he said that …)
- 48 Reported speech 2
Questions and auxiliary verbs
- 49 Questions 1
- 50 Questions 2 (do you know where … ? / he asked me where …)
- 51 Auxiliary verbs (have/do/can etc.) I think so / I hope so etc.
- 52 Question tags (do you? isn’t it? etc.)
-ing and to …
- 53 Verb + -ing (enjoy doing / stop doing etc.)
- 54 Verb + to … (decide to … / forget to … etc.)
- 55 Verb (+ object) + to … (I want you to …)
- 56 Verb + -ing or to … 1 (remember, regret etc.)
- 57 Verb + -ing or to … 2 (try, need, help)
- 58 Verb + -ing or to … 3 (like / would like etc.)
- 59 prefer and would rather
- 60 Preposition (in/for/about etc.) + -ing
- 61 be/get used to … (I’m used to …)
- 62 Verb + preposition + -ing (succeed in -ing /insist on -ing etc.)
- 63 there’s no point in -ing, it’s worth -ing etc.
- 64 to … , for … and so that …
- 65 Adjective + to …
- 66 to … (afraid to do) and preposition + -ing (afraid of -ing)
- 67 see somebody do and see somebody doing
- 68 -ing clauses (He hurt his knee playing football.)
Articles and nouns
- 69 Countable and uncountable 1
- 70 Countable and uncountable 2
- 71 Countable nouns with a/an and some
- 72 a/an and the
- 73 the 1
- 74 the 2 (school / the school etc.)
- 75 the 3 (children / the children)
- 76 the 4 (the giraffe / the telephone / the old etc.)
- 77 Names with and without the 1
- 78 Names with and without the 2
- 79 Singular and plural
- 80 Noun + noun (a bus driver / a headache)
- 81 -’s (your sister’s name) and of … (the name of the book)
Pronouns and determiners
- 82 myself/yourself/themselves etc.
- 83 a friend of mine my own house on my own/ by myself
- 84 there … and it …
- 85 some and any
- 86 no/none/any nothing/nobody etc.
- 87 much, many, little, few, a lot, plenty
- 88 all / all of most / most of no / none of etc.
- 89 both / both of neither / neither of either/ either of
- 90 all every whole
- 91 each and every
Relative clauses
- 92 Relative clauses 1: clauses with who/that/which
- 93 Relative clauses 2: clauses with and without who/that/which
- 94 Relative clauses 3: whose/whom/where
- 95 Relative clauses 4: extra information clauses (1)
- 96 Relative clauses 5: extra information clauses (2)
- 97 -ing and -ed clauses (the woman talking to Tom, the boy injured in the accident)
Adjectives and adverbs
- 98 Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed (boring/bored etc.)
- 99 Adjectives: a nice new house, you look tired
- 100 Adjectives and adverbs 1 (quick/quickly)
- 101 Adjectives and adverbs 2 (well, fast, late, hard/hardly)
- 102 so and such
- 103 enough and too
- 104 quite, pretty, rather and fairly
- 105 Comparative 1 (cheaper, more expensive etc.)
- 106 Comparative 2 (much better/ any better etc.)
- 107 Comparative 3 (as … as / than)
- 108 Superlative (the longest, the most enjoyable etc.)
- 109 Word order 1: verb + object; place and time
- 110 Word order 2: adverbs with the verb
- 111 still any more yet already
- 112 even
Conjunctions and prepositions
- 113 although though even though in spite of despite
- 114 in case
- 115 unless as long as provided
- 116 as (as I walked … / as I was … etc.)
- 117 like and as
- 118 like as if
- 119 during for while
- 120 by and until by the time …
Prepositions
- 121 at/on/in (time)
- 122 on time and in time at the end and in the end
- 123 in/at/on (position) 1
- 124 in/at/on (position) 2
- 125 in/at/on (position) 3
- 126 to, at, in and into
- 127 in/on/at (other uses)
- 128 by
- 129 Noun + preposition (reason for, cause of etc.)
- 130 Adjective + preposition 1
- 131 Adjective + preposition 2
- 132 Verb + preposition 1 to and at
- 133 Verb + preposition 2 about/for/of/after
- 134 Verb + preposition 3 about and of
- 135 Verb + preposition 4 of/for/from/on
- 136 Verb + preposition 5 in/into/with/to/on
Phrasal verbs
- 137 Phrasal verbs 1 Introduction
- 138 Phrasal verbs 2 in/out
- 139 Phrasal verbs 3 out
- 140 Phrasal verbs 4 on/off (1)
- 141 Phrasal verbs 5 on/off (2)
- 142 Phrasal verbs 6 up/down
- 143 Phrasal verbs 7 up (1)
- 144 Phrasal verbs 8 up (2)
- 145 Phrasal verbs 9 away/back
