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Cambridge Grammar for IELTS

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ISBN-10: 0521604621

ISBN-13: 9780521604628

Edition: 2006 (Student Manual, Study Guide, etc.)

Authors: Diane Hopkins, Pauline Cullen

List price: $47.00
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Cambridge Grammar for IELTS provides complete coverage of the grammar needed for the IELTS test, and develops listening skills at the same time. It includes a wide range of IELTS tasks from the Academic and General Training Reading, Writing and Listening modules, and contains helpful grammar explanations and a grammar glossary.
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Book details

List price: $47.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/5/2006
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 270
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.72" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Introduction
Entry test
Present tenses
Present simple; present continuous; state verbs
Test practice: Listening Section 1
Past tenses 1
Past simple; past continuous; used to; would
Test practice: Academic Reading
Present perfect
Present perfect simple; present perfect continuous
Test practice: General Training Writing Task 1
Past tenses
Past perfect simple; past perfect continuous
Test practice: Academic Reading
Future
Plans, intentions and predictions: present continuous; going to; will
Test practice: General Training Reading
Future
Present simple; be about to; future continuous; future perfect
Test practice: Academic Writing Task 2
Countable and uncountable nouns
Countable and uncountable nouns; quantity expressions (many, much, a lot of, some, any, a few, few, no)
Test practice: Academic Reading
Referring to nouns
Articles; other determiners (demonstratives, possessives, inclusives: each, every, both, all etc.)
Test practice: Listening Section 4
Pronouns and referencing
Personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns; avoiding repetition
Test practice: Academic Writing Task 2
Adjectives and adverbs
Describing things; adding information about manner, place, time, frequency and intensity
Test practice: General Training Reading
Comparing things:
Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs; other ways of comparing
Test practice: Academic Writing Task 1
The noun phrase
Noun + prepositional phrase; noun + participle clause; noun + to-infinitive clause
Test practice: Academic Reading
Modals 1
Ability; possibility; alternatives to modals
Test practice: Listening Section 4
Modals
Obligation and necessity; suggestions and advice; adverbs
Test practice: General Training Reading
Reported speech
Tense changes; time references; reporting questions; reporting verbs
Test practice: Listening Section 3
Verb + verb patterns
Verb + to-infinitive; verb + -ing; verb + preposition + -ing; verb + infinitive without to
Test practice: Academic Reading
Likelihood based on conditions 1
Zero, first and second conditionals; other ways to introduce a condition
Test practice: Academic Reading
Likelihood based on conditions 1
Third conditional; mixed conditionals; wishes and regrets; should(n't) have
Test practice: Academic Reading
Prepositions
Prepositions after verbs, adjectives and nouns; prepositional phrases
Test practice: Listening Section 2
Relative clauses
Relative pronouns; defining and non-defining relative clauses; prepositions
Test practice: Academic Reading
Ways of organizing texts
Subject choice; introductory it; ellipsis; organising information; it- and what-clauses
Test practice: Academic Writing Task 2
The passive
The passive; reporting with passive verbs; have something done; need + -ing
Test practice: Academic Writing Task 1
Linking ideas
Conjunctions, adverbials and prepositions; linking expressions
Test practice: Academic Reading
Showing your position in a text
Pronouns; adverbs; verbs; adjectives
Test practice: Academic Writing Task 2
Nominalisation in written English
Forming nouns from other parts of speech (verbs, adjectives and linking words)
Test practice: Academic Writing Task 1
Key
Recording scripts
Irregular verbs
Phrasal verbs
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