Table of Contents

Present and past

001   Present continuous (I am doing)

002   Present simple (I do)

003   Present continuous and present simple 1 (I am doing and I do)

004   Present continuous and present simple 2 (I am doing and I do)

005   Past simple (I did)

006   Past continuous (I was doing)

 

Present perfect and past

007   Present perfect 1 (I have done)

008   Present perfect 2 (I have done)

009   Present perfect continuous (I have been doing)

010   Present perfect continuous and simple (I have been doing and I have done)

011   how long have you (been) … ?

012   for and since    when … ? and how long … ?

013   Present perfect and past 1 (I have done and I did)

014   Present perfect and past 2 (I have done and I did)

015   Past perfect (I had done)

016   Past perfect continuous (I had been doing)

017   have and have got

018   used to (do)

 

Future

019   Present tenses (I am doing / I do) for the future

020   I’m going to (do)

021   will and shall 1

022   will and shall 2

023   I will and I’m going to

024   will be doing and will have done

025   when I do and when I’ve done  /  when and if

 

Modals

026   can, could and (be) able to

027   could (do) and could have (done)

028   must and can’t

029   may and might 1

030   may and might 2

031   have to and must

032   must / mustn’t / needn’t

033   should 1

034   should 2

035   I’d better …  /  it’s time …

036   would

037   can/could/would you … ? etc. (Requests, offers, permission and invitations)

 

if and wish
038   if I do … and if I did …
039   if I knew …  /  I wish I knew …
040   if I had known …  /  I wish I had known …
041   wish

 

Passive
042   Passive 1 (is done / was done)
043   Passive 2 (be done / been done / being done)
044   Passive 3
045   it is said that …  /  he is said to …  /  he is supposed to …
046   have something done

 

Reported speech
047   Reported speech 1 (he said that …)
048   Reported speech 2

 

Questions and auxiliary verbs
049   Questions 1
050   Questions 2 (do you know where … ?  /  he asked me where …)
051   Auxiliary verbs (have/do/can etc.)   I think so / I hope so etc.
052   Question tags (do you? isn’t it? etc.)

 

-ing and to …
053   Verb + -ing (enjoy doing / stop doing etc.)
054   Verb + to … (decide to … / forget to … etc.)
055   Verb (+ object) + to … (I want you to …)
056   Verb + -ing or to … 1 (remember, regret etc.)
057   Verb + -ing or to … 2 (try, need, help)
058   Verb + -ing or to … 3 (like / would like etc.)
059   prefer and would rather
060   Preposition (in/for/about etc.) + -ing
061   be/get used to … (I’m used to …)
062   Verb + preposition + -ing (succeed in -ing / insist on -ing etc.)
063   there’s no point in -ing,  it’s worth -ing etc.
064   to … , for … and so that …
065   Adjective + to …
066   to … (afraid to do) and preposition + -ing (afraid of -ing)
067   see somebody do and see somebody doing
068   -ing clauses (He hurt his knee playing football.)

 

Articles and nouns
069   Countable and uncountable 1
070   Countable and uncountable 2
071   Countable nouns with a/an and some
072   a/an and the
073   the 1
074   the 2 (school / the school etc.)
075   the 3 (children / the children)
076   the 4 (the giraffe / the telephone / the old etc.)

077   Names with and without the 1

078   Names with and without the 2
079   Singular and plural
080   Noun + noun (a bus driver / a headache)
081   -’s (your sister’s name) and of … (the name of the book)

 

Pronouns and determiners 

082   myself / yourself / themselves etc.
083   a friend of mine  /  my own house  /  (on my own / by myself)
084   there … and it …
085   some and any
086   (no/none/any)  ,  (nothing/nobody) etc.
087   much, many, little, few, a lot, plenty
088   (all / all of)  ,  (most / most of)  ,  (no / none of) etc.
089   (both / both of)  ,  (neither / neither of)  ,  (either / either of)
090   all / every / whole 

091   each and every

 

Relative clauses
092   Relative clauses 1: clauses with who/that/which
093   Relative clauses 2: clauses with and without who/that/which
094   Relative clauses 3: whose/whom/where
095   Relative clauses 4: extra information clauses (1)
096   Relative clauses 5: extra information clauses (2)
097   -ing and -ed clauses (the woman talking to Tom, the boy injured in the accident)

 

Adjectives and adverbs
098   Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed (boring/bored etc.)
099   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

 

Appendix 1   Regular and irregular verbs 
Appendix 2   Present and past tenses 
Appendix 3   The future 
Appendix 4   Modal verbs (can/could/will/would etc.) 
Appendix 5   Short forms (I’m / you’ve / didn’t etc.) 
Appendix 6   Spelling 
Appendix 7   American English