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English Grammar in Use with Answers and CD-ROM 4th Edition
A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Learners of English
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CD-ROMの対応OSはWindowsはXP,Vista or 7まで、MacはOS X10.6となります。
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CEF Level: B1 Pre-Intermediate - B2 Upper Intermediate
Publication date: February 2012
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English Grammar in Use Book with Answers and Interactive eBook 4th Edition
This edition includes an eBook which has the same grammar explanations and exercises found in the printed book, plus other great features. You can listen to all of the example sentences from the book, record your answers to exercises, highlight text, bookmark pages and add your own personal notes.
（レベル・出版）
CEF Level: B1 Pre-Intermediate - B2 Upper Intermediate
Publication date: July 2015
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English Grammar in Use Students Book Intermediate with Answers 4th Edition
A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Students of English
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（レベル・出版）
CEF Level: B1 Pre-Intermediate - B2 Upper Intermediate
Publication date: February 2012
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Table of Contents
ご参考までに English Grammar In Use で解説されている文法テーマを目次でご案内します。
perfect 1 (I have done) 完了形
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 and have got
18 Used to (do)
Future 未来形
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 助動詞
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 仮定
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 受動態
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 質問と助動詞
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 to ...
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 ...
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 Like / as if / as though
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/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 General points
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 292
Appendix 2 Present and past tenses 294
Appendix 3 The future 295
Appendix 4 Modal verbs (can/could/will/would etc.) 296
Appendix 5 Short forms (I’m / you’ve / didn’t etc.) 297
Appendix 6 Spelling 298
Appendix 7 American English 300
Additional exercises 302
Study guide 326
Key to Exercises 336
Key to Additional exercises 368
Key to Study guide 372
Index 373
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