Tees ele d a with key| Elaine Wameo— Steve Elsworth G ra Mm mM 9 r Practice for Intermediate Students with keyPearson Education Limited Edinburgh Cate, Harlow Essex, M20 2JE, England. And Associated Companies throughout the World. www.longman-elt.com ® Pearson Education Limited 1986, 2000 The right of Elaine Walker and Steve Elsworth to be identified as authors of this Work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Publishers. ISBN 0 582 41716 3 Set in Slimbach Printed in Spain by Mateu Cromo Ilustrations by David Mostyn Project Managed by Lewis Lansford Additional material written by David BowkerContents To the student NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES the articles a and the 1-4 possessives 4-6 plurals 6-7 comparative and superlative adjectives 8-10 so and such 10 VERBS The present tense present simple and continuous 11-14 ‘The past tense past simple and continuous 15-16 present perfect 17-19 past perfect 20-22 ‘The future tense present continuous as future 25-26 going to future 25-26 future simple 25-26 present simple as future 26-27 future continuous 28-29 future perfect 30-31 future in the past. 33 Simple, continuous, and perfect aspects 34-36 Verb formations irregular verbs 37 verbs with gerund, infinitive, or indirect sj The passive passives 43-47 have something done 47-48 Miscellaneous wish 48-53 CONDITIONALS first conditional 54-55 second conditional 54-55 zero conditional 54-55 third conditional 56-57 words other than if 58 hidden conditions 59 mixed tense conditionals 60 MODALS modals in questions and negatives 63 can, could 64 must, have to 65-67 should, ought to 67-68 need 69-72 modals in past tense 73-76 could, would, might 76-77 GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES The gerund 78-79 The infinitive 78, 80-84 gerund or infinitive 84-86 REPORTED SPEECH Indirect speech 87-103 SENTENCE STRUCTURE Word order position of direct and indirect objects 104 order of adverbs 105-106 frequency adverbs 107-109 order of adjectives 109-110 link words 110-111 Questions and answers who questions 111-112 tag questions 113~115 short answers 115-116 embedded questions and answers 116-119 Relative clauses 119-127 PREPOSITIONS AND PHRASAL VERBS 128-136 TESTS 137 ANSWER KEY 148 INDEX 163To the student Grammar Practice for Intermediate Students gives short, clear explanations of all the main areas of English grammar, and provides practice exercises for you to do, There are two ways in which this book can be used; i in class with help from your teacher; i) at home by yourself. If you are using the book by yourseli, use the Index and the Contents list to find the areas that you want to study, read the grammatical explanation, and then do the exercise, To check your answers you will need to use the edition of Grammar Practice for Intermediate Students with Answer key. We hope that Grammar Practice for Intermediate Students helps you to improve your English Elaine Walker Steve ElsworthNouns and adjectives 1 The articles a and the * ais used: a) with countable nouns to indicate one: I've got a cat. b) to indicate cost, speed, or frequency: fifty pence a kilo four times a day two hundred kilometres an hour ©) for certain numbers: @ hundred; a thousand; a couple; a dozen © the is used: a) when a word is used a second time b) when talking about a known object: T've just washed the car. (= our car, or this car) Where's the dog? (= our dog, or the dog that is usually here) We've made the beds. (= our beds, or the beds here) c) in a general sense, with musical instruments: Can you play the guitar? 1 like listening to the pidno. Note: I've just bought a guitar and a piano. d) when the object is unique: the moon, * Usually, no article is used: a) with abstract nouns (life, beauty, love, etc.), languages subjects (history, Latin, etc.) Life isn’t always easy. Latin is a difficult language to learn. b) with materials (wine, coal, sugar, etc.) when they are considered in a general sense: Glass is a difficult material to cut. Gold is very expensive at the moment. Note: There is a difference between: They were looking for gold. (= any gold) They found the gold. (= the gold they were looking for) ©) before countries and towns: They live in Manchester d) before school, home, work, church, bed, and hospital in certain expressions: We went to church. She's at home. and academicNouns and adjectives Practice Write a, the, or no article to complete these sentences. 1 aww She's a good musician: she plays £2. piano beautifully. 1 don’t see him often, only once or twice ..2.. month, Mary’s not at #¢. office. I think she’s gone ..x.. home, Do you want to see Sarah? She's in .......... garden. I'm studying .......... French and ......... Italian, I like Jane, she has a lot of .. warmth. Shall we sit outside? sun is really warm. Where's dog? I want to go out for .....amcwalk. I don’t use ......... sugar when I'm cooking. Do your parents still live in .......... Scotland? Would you mind waiting for.......... couple of minutes? I think It’s ..., piano is one of the easiest instruments to play. ... fast car. Its top speed is 150 miles . hour. I saw her when she was going to ......... work. ‘There's someone at front door. Do you like .......... wine? No, I don’t drink .......... alcohol. PU have «....... dozen eggs and oo... loaf, please. Coal is sixty dollars .......... ton at the moment. Have you done washing-up? I think it’s made of ......... glass like . tea with ......... milk in it, Tstayed at home last night and listened to ......... radio. Would you like . cup of coffee? They gave me ........ diamond necklace. When he was nineteen, he joined army. 2 ~~ Words using a, the, or no article * Some words are used with a, the, or no article, depending on the meaning of the word, and whether it is thought of as definite (the), indefinite (a), or uncountable: I put the glass on the table. (definite - a particular glass) I picked up a gla It’s made of gl {indefinite - one of a number of glasses) . (uncountable - glass as material)Nouns and adjectives Practice Write a, the, or no article to complete these sentences. tin 1 Could | have ten eggs and ..2.. tin of peas? 2 Put some money in £¢. tin by the door when you leave, please. 3 The cigarette lighter’s made of ..=.. tin ‘wood 4 We knew that .......... wood was a very expensive material at the time. 5 There’s .......... wood at the end of the road. 6 There are some rabbits living at the edge of ......... wood. [paper] 7 The boy who delivers .......... paper is late today. 8 It was very strange, a shirt made of .......... paper. paper of some sort on the train. 9. I generally read . chocolate 10 1 won't take .. chocolate, thanks, although they look very nice. 11 Most doctors say .......... chocolate is bad for you. 12 . chocolates which I ate last night tasted very strange. dies] 13 She has a good sense of dress. 4 . dress I liked was a bit too big for me. 15 Tsaw .. beautiful dress here yesterday. [experience 16 I'm afraid I didn’t enjoy ......... experience at all 17 For this job you need experience with computers. 18 My first trip abroad was .......... Wonderful experience. [noise ] 19 I couldn’t hear her because of ......... noise of the train 20 She heard .......... strange noise behind the curtain. 21 What kind of noise are you talking about? [conversation | 22 It was ......... very embarrassing conversation, 23 I was trying to listen to .......... conversation at the table next to me. 24 I always find .......... conversation difficult in a foreign language."Nouns and adjectives 3 a, the, or no article Practice Circle the correct answer. I could tell by (a/the/-) town hall clock that I was late, so I decided to catch (a/-) bus. It was (a/the/-) beautiful day; (a/the/-) sun was shining and there was (the/-) very little wind. I turned (the/-) corner, and walked down (a/the/-) main street. (A/the/-) couple of minutes later, I heard (a/the/-) noise, and (a/the/-) man wearing (a/the/-) grey leather jacket ran past me. At first, I thought he was trying to catch (the/-) bus which was waiting at (the/-) bus stop, but then (a/the/-) policeman appeared, running at (a/-) some speed. He was obviously chasing (a/the/-) man in, (a/the/-) leather jacket, and he was joined by another policeman, who was talking rapidly into (a/the/) hand-held radio. All three disappeared into (a/-) crowd of people, iny bus arrived, and I got on. As (a/the/-) bus drove down (the/-) road, I saw (a/the/-) man again, walking casually through (a/the/-) crowd with his (the /) coat over his shoulder. I could also see (a/the/-) second policeman, still talking into his radio. He was describing (a/-) man who no longer existed, (q/-) man wearing a jacket and running furiously: while (a/the/-) real criminal (if he was (a/-) criminal) walked slowly and casually into the station. 4 Possessives with ‘s, s’and of * To indicate possession for people or animals: a) add ’s to singular nouns, and to plural nouns not ending in s: Monica’s dress the dog’s nose the children’s school b) add ’ to plural nouns ending in s: dolphins’ brains the sailors’ hats