Murphy Grammar 2004

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 got and have
  18. Used to (do)

    Future


  19. Present tenses (I am doing / I do) for the future
  20. (I’m) going to (do)
  21. Will/shall 1
  22. Will/shall 2
  23. I will and I’m going to
  24. Will be doing and will have done
  25. When I do / When I’ve done When and if

    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. Had 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 the infinitive


  53. Verb + -ing (enjoy doing / stop doing etc.)
  54. Verb + to ... (decide to ... / forget to ... etc.)
  55. Verb (+ object) + to ... (I want you to ... etc.)
  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 something (I’m used to ...)
  62. Verb + preposition + -ing (succeed in -ing / accuse somebody of -ing etc.)
  63. Expressions + -ing
  64. To ... , for ... and so that ... (purpose)
  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 (Feeling tired, I went to bed early.)

    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 piano etc., the + adjective)
  77. Names with and without the 1
  78. Names with and without the 2
  79. Singular and plural
  80. Noun + noun (a tennis ball / 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 and 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. Comparison 1 (cheaper, more expensive etc.)
  106. Comparison 2 (much better / any better / better and better / the sooner the better)
  107. Comparison 3 (as ... as / than)
  108. Superlatives (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, yet and already Any more / any longer / no longer
  112. Even

    Conjunctions and prepositions


  113. Although / though / even though In spite of / despite
  114. In case
  115. Unless As long as Provided/providing
  116. As (As I walked along the street ... / As I was hungry ...)
  117. Like and as
  118. As if / as though / like
  119. For, during and 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/into
  127. In/at/on (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. Appendix 1 Regular and irregular verbs
  146. Appendix 2 Present and past tenses
  147. Appendix 3 The future
  148. Appendix 4 Modal verbs (can/could/will/would etc.)
  149. Appendix 5 Short forms (I’m / you’ve / didn’t etc.)
  150. Appendix 6 Spelling
  151. Appendix 7 American English

  
  
  
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