Second edition

Oxford
Practice
Grammar
with answers

John Eastwood

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Contents
Introduction page vi
Key to symbols vii
Starting test viii

Words and sentences

1
2
3

Word classes: nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc 2

Sentence structure: subject, verb, object, etc 4
Direct and indirect objects 6

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29
30

Wm be doing 70
Will have done and was going to 72
Review of the future 74
Test 7; The future 76

31
32
33

The verb have 78

Short forms, e.g it's, don't 80
Emphatic do 82

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35
36
37
38
39

Yes/no questions 84
Short answers, e.g. Yes, it is. 86
Wh-questions 88
Subject/object questions 90
Prepositions in wh-questions 92
Who, what or which? 94
Test 8: Questions 96

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41
42
43

Negative statements 98
Negative questions 100
Question tags, e.g. isn't it? 102
So/Neither do I and I think so 104
Test 9: Questions, negatives and answers 706

44
45

Ability: can, could and be able to / 0^

Permission: can, may, could and
be allowed to 110
Possibility and certainty: may, might, could,
must, etc 112
Necessity: must and have to 114
Necessity: mustn't, needn't, etc 116
Should, ought to, had better and
be supposed to 118
Asking people to do things J20
Suggestions, offers and invitations 122
Will, would, shall and should 124
It may/could/must have been, etc 126
Test 10: Modal verbs 128

Questions, negatives and answers

Verbs
4
5
6
I

The present continuous 8

The present simple 10
Present continuous or simple? 12
State verbs and action verbs 14
Test t: Present tenses 16

8
9
10

The
The
Past
Test

II
12

The present perfect (1) 26

The present perfect (2): just, already, yet;
for and since 28
The present perfect (3): ever, this week, etc 30
Present perfect or past simple? (1) 32
Present perfect or past simple? (2) 34
Test 3: Present perfect and past simple 36

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14
15

past simple 18
past continuous 20
continuous or simple? 22
2: Past simple and past continuous 24

Modal verbs

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16
17
18
19
20

The present perfect continuous 38

Present perfect continuous or simple? 40
The past perfect 42
Review of the past simple, continuous and
perfect 44
The past perfect continuous 46
Test 4: Past and perfect tenses 48

21

Review of present and past tenses 50

Test 5: Present and past tenses 54

11
23
24
25
26
11

Introduction to the future 56

Will and shall 58
Be going to 60
Will and be going to 62
Present tenses for the future 64
When I get there, before you leave, etc 66
Test 6: The future with will, be going to
and present tenses 68

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48
49
50
51
52
53

The passive
54
55
56
57
58
59

Passive verb forms 130

Active and passive (1) \32
Active and passive (2) 134
Special passive structures 136
Have something done 138
To be done and being done 140
Test H: The passive \42

This, my, some, a lot of, all, etc

The infinitive and the ing-form

60
61
62
63
64

Verb + to-infinitive 144

Verb + ing-form 146
Verb + to-infinitive or verb -i- ing-form? 148
Like, start, etc 150
Remember, regret, try, etc 152
Test 12: Verb + to-infinitive or ing-form 154

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71
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75

Verb + object + to-infinitive or ing-form /56

Question word + to-infinitive 158
Adjective + lo-infinitive 160
For with the to-infinitive /62
The infinitive with and without to 164
Verb/Adjective + preposition + ing-form /66
Afraid to do or afraid of doing? 168
Used to do and be used to doing 170
Preposition or linking word + ing-form 172
See it happen or see it happening? 174
Some structures with the ing-form 176
Test 13: The infinitive and the ing-form 178

76

Ship and water: tounlablc and uncountable

nouns 180
A carton of milk, a piece of
information, CIL. IH2
Nouns that can be either countable or
uncountable 184
Agreement 186
Singular or plural? 188
Pair nouns and group nouns /90
Two nouns together 192
Test 14: Nouns and agreement 194

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92
93
94
95
96
97

This, that, these and those 216

My. your, etc and mine, yours, etc 218
The possessive form and of 220
Some and any 222
A lot of, many, much, (a) few
and (a) little 224
All, half, most, some, no and none 226
Every, each, whole, both, either
and neither 228
Test 16: This. my. some, a lot of. all, etc 230

Pronouns
98
99
100
101
102
103

Personal pronouns, e.g. I. you 232

There and it 234
Rellexive pronouns 236
Emphatic pronouns and each other 238
The pronoun one/ones 240
Everyone, something, etc 242
Test 17: Pronouns 244

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105
106
107
108
109

Adjectives 246
The order of adjectives 248
The old. the rich, etc 250
Interesting and interested 252
Adjective or adverb? (1) 254
Adjective or adverb? (2) 256
Test 18: Adjectives and adverbs ^58

Nouns and articles (a/an and the)

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78
79
80
81
82
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54
85
86
87
S8
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90

A/an and the (1) 196

A/an and the (2) 198
A/an, one and some 200
Cars or the cars? 202
Prison, school, bed, etc 204
On Friday, for lunch, etc 206
Quite a, such a, what a, etc 208
Place names and the 210
Test 15: A/an and the 214

Adjectives and adverbs

110 C-omparative and superlative forms 260

111 Comparative and superlative patterns (1) 264
112 Comparative and superlative patterns (2) 266
Test 19: Comparative and superlative 268
113
114
115
116
117

Adverbs and word order 270

Yet, Still and already 274
Adverbs of degree, e.g. very, quite 276
Quite and rather 278
Too and enough 280
Test 20; Adverbs and word order 282

Conditionals and wish

Prepositions
118
119
120
121
111
123
124
125

Prepositions of place 284

In, on and at (place) 288
In, on and at (time) 290
For, since, ago and before 292
During or while? By or until? As or like? 294
Preposition-I-noun, e.g. on holiday 296
Noun + preposition, e.g. trouble with 298
Adjective + preposition, e.g. proud of 300
Test 21: Prepositions 302

Verbs with prepositions and adverbs

126
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128
129
130
131

Prepositional verbs, e.g. wait for 304

Verb -f object -i- preposition 306
Phrasal verbs (1) 308
Phrasal verbs (2) 310
Phrasal verbs (3) 312
Verb + adverb-^ preposition 314
Test 22: Verbs with prepositions and
adverbs 3/6

132
133
134
135
136

Direct speech and reported speech 318

Reported speech: person, place and time 320
Reported speech: the tense change 322
Reported questions 324
Reported requests, offers, etc 326
Test 23: Reported speech 328

Reported speech

Relative clauses
137 Relative clauses with who, which
and that 330
138 The relative pronoun as object 332
139 Prepositions in relative clauses 334
140 Relative structures with whose, what
and it 336
141 The use of relative clauses 338
142 Relative pronouns and relative adverbs 340
143 Relative clauses: participle and
to-infinitive 342
Test 24: Relative clauses 344

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145
146
147
148

Conditionals (1) 346

Conditionals (2) 348
Conditionals (3) 350
Review of conditionals 352
If, when, unless and in case 354

149 W i s h and i f o n l y 356

Test 25: Conditionals and w i s h 358

Linking words
150
151
152
153

But, although and in spite of 360

To, in order to. so that and for 362
Review of linking words 364
Links across sentences 366

Appendices
1
2
3
4
5
6

Word formation 368

The spelling of endings 370
Punctuation 372
Pronunciation 374
American English 377
Irregular verbs 383

Key to the starting test 385

Key to the exercises 3S6
Key to the tests 414
Index 425