First Certificate Language Practice Michael Vince English Grammar and Vocabulary 4th Edition PA MACMILLANMacmillan Education Between Towns Road, Oxford OX43PP A division of Macmillan Publishers Limited ‘Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-0-2307-2709-0 without key ISBN 978-0-2307-2708-3 with key ‘Text © Michael Vince 2009 Design and illustration © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009 First published 1993 This edition published 2009 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers, Designed by Macmillan Layout and composition by xen Cover design by Andrew Oliver Mlustrated by: Andy Hammond pp 47, 80, 108, 134, 146, 174; Julian Mosedale pp 8, 9, 17, 26, 40, 42, 60, 77, 8, 94, 100, 124, 140, 143, 170, 180, 213, 244; ‘Oxford Designers & Illustrators pp 1, 20, 120, 141, 159, 203, 214, 220, 223, 228, 234, 254, 272. ‘The author would lke to thank the many schools and teachers who have commented on these materials, Also special thanks to Paul Emmerson who revised the previous edition. Thanks also go to ‘Amanda Holmbrook and Clare Shaw for editorial advice and assistance. Printed in Thailand 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 9998765432Grammar 1 Grammar 2 Grammar 3 Grammar 4 Consolidation 1 Grammar 5 Grammar 6 Grammar 7 Grammar 8 Consolidation 2 Grammar 9 Grammar 10 Contents Introduction vii Past time 1 Past simple, past continuous, past perfect, used to, would, participle clauses Present perfect 7 Present perfect simple and continuous, past simple Future time 4 Will, going to, future continuous, future perfect, future time clauses, present continuous, present simple Present time 19 Present simple, present continuous Units 1-4 24 Indirect speech 29 With and without tense changes, questions, commands and requests, reporting verbs, paraphrase Conditionals 36 Real / likely situations (first conditional) with if, unless, provided, as long as, the imperative, should Unreal / imaginary situations (second conditional) with if ‘were, were to Unreal / imaginary past situations (third conditional) with if mixed conditions Other ifsentences Wishes and related forms 42 Wishes about the present and past, wishes about the future with could and have fo, wishes with would, wishes with if only itt time, Id rather, suppose, imagine Passives 48 ‘Transitive and intransitive verbs, focus on important information, reporting verbs, have / get something done, needs doing, verbs and prepositions, other problems Units 5-8 55 Relative clauses 60 Subject and object clauses, combining sentences, defining and non-defining clauses, omitting the relative pronoun which, who, that, whom, whose Prepositions 67 Movement, position and place, problems of use, prepositions without an object, prepositions with more than one word, prepositional phrases i