Advanced English Grammar Tips
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A targeted book of advanced grammar tips and explanations for learners of English as a foreign language. It is not a book about all English grammar but aimed at those who wish to live, work or study in an English-speaking country or organisation and require specific language. It will be suitable for Business English students and for those studying IELTS
Alexander Markham
Alexander Markham is a Cambridge English tutor with a Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA). Alexander is a native English speaker from London. He has worked in a variety of business roles around the world using his second and third languages of French and Spanish before becoming a qualified English tutor. As well as the CELTA teaching qualification, Alexander holds a Master's degree in Business and studied for a BSc in Modern Languages (Spanish and French). Alexander has written several articles on Advanced level English and several books. As a tutor, he has worked with professional and business students from around the world, helping them to improve their English at Advanced level, for Business English and for Cambridge exams such as IELTS, CAE and CPE.
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Advanced English Grammar Tips - Alexander Markham
INTRODUCTION
This book covers many of the types of advanced-level grammar you’d need to live and work in an English-speaking country or to pass English language exams such as, IELTS, First and CAE.
It also covers examples of how English speaker really talk. That’s to say, the type of grammar constructions you’ll hear that are not always those explained in standard grammar books.
The author, Alexander Markham, is a CELTA tutor from London. He also writes articles on IELTS, Business and Advanced-Level English. You can find his work him at:
Website: www.theenglishbureau.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theenglishbureau/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/theenglishburea/
1 USING PREPOSITIONS
We use prepositions to show a relationship or a connection between nouns and pronouns. Prepositions are therefore typically followed by a noun phrase or pronoun.
For example:
John (noun) goes to (proposition) the shop
The noun John is connected to the noun shop by the preposition to.
English prepositions can be tricky to learn for speakers of other languages so here are two methods to remember how prepositions are used in English.
The first method to consider is to think of prepositions with certain word groups. In English, you need to think of word groups as vocabulary in the way single words are considered vocabulary in other languages.
These preposition word groups are:
Verb Word Groups,
Adjective Word Groups
Other Word Groups, including adverbs and expressions.
The second method is to think of prepositions with regard to situations. These situations are:
Time
Place
Movement.
1.1 PREPOSITIONS WITH WORD GROUPS
1 VERB + PREPOSITION WORD GROUPS
When a verb is followed by a sentence, it is usually accompanied by a specific preposition that is always used with that particular verb. This verb group is often a phrasal verb and you should remember phrasal verbs as a word group: verb + preposition.
For example: The verb to account always goes with preposition for to form the phrasal verb to account for, meaning to provide a satisfactorily record for something, usually money.
Here are some examples of phrasal verbs, or verb+prepositions word groups giving the preposition that is linked to the verb:
PHRASAL VERBS WITH FOR
Account for, answer for, care for, come for, look for, pay for, send for, settle for.
PHRASAL VERBS WITH FROM
Come from, hear from, keep from, protect from, recover from, suffer from.
PHRASAL VERBS WITH IN
Believe in, fit in, give in, work in, specialise in, succeed in.
PHRASAL VERBS WITH OF
Approve of, die of, dispose of, smell of, think of.
PHRASAL VERBS WITH ON
Agree on, based on, build on, concentrate on, decide on, pass on, rely on.
PHRASAL VERBS WITH TO
Agree to, answer to, apologise to, get to, go to, introduce to, refer to, reply/respond to, talk to. (Don't confuse phrasal verbs with to with those verbs that are followed by a to-infinitive).
PHRASAL VERBS WITH WITH
Agree with, argue with, break with, come with, deal with, go with, live with, meet with.
2 ADJECTIVE & PREPOSITION WORD GROUPS
Adjectives are of course used to describe nouns – people, places or things.
Adjectives are commonly grouped with a preposition to connect the two nouns/pronouns in a sentence.
Here are some common adjective-preposition word groups when the adjective and preposition are always used together:
ADJECTIVES WITH ABOUT
Angry about, anxious about, enthusiastic about, excited about, serious about.
ADJECTIVES WITH AT
Amazed at, angry at, bad at, disappointed at, good at, shocked at, skilled at, successful at, surprised at.
ADJECTIVES WITH BY
Amazed by, delighted by, fascinated by, impressed by, inspired by, shocked by, surprised by.
ADJECTIVES WITH OF
Afraid of, ashamed of, aware of, find of, full of, proud of.
ADJECTIVES WITH FOR
Eligible for, excellent for, famous for, known for, prepared for, respected for, responsible for, ready for, suitable for.
ADJECTIVES WITH FROM
Absent from, different from, free from, made from, protected from.
ADJECTIVES WITH IN
Experienced in, interested in, involved in, skilled in, successful in.
ADJECTIVES WITH OF
Afraid of, aware of, conscious of, jealous of, proud of, typical of.
ADJECTIVES WITH TO
Accustomed to, addicted to, committed to, dedicated to, opposed to, similar to.
ADJECTIVES WITH WITH
Angry with, annoyed with, associated with, confronted with, disappointed with, familiar with, pleased with.
3 PREPOSITIONS WITH OTHER WORD GROUPS
Other word groups are expressions and phrases that use a preposition. Here are some examples:
WORD GROUPS WITH AS
As long as, as soon as, such as, as well as, in so far as, just as.
WORD GROUPS WITH FOR
As for, except for.
WORD GROUPS WITH FROM
Apart from.
WORD GROUPS WITH OF
Ahead of, because of, in front of, in place of, in spite of, in terms of, inside of, instead of, on account of, on the basis of, on top of, out of, outside of.
WORD GROUPS WITH TO
Due to, in addition to, near to, thanks to, owing to, so as to, up to.
1.2 PREPOSITIONS WITH SITUATIONS
The second method for using prepositions is to use prepositions in sentences with fixed meanings when describing time or places or movement .
For example, when talking about the time of day or a year, we always use the preposition in. When talking about a place where someone is attending something, we will always use the preposition at.
Here are some of the most common examples:
1 PREPOSITIONS WITH TIME
The following prepositions are used for specific situations regarding time:
AT
Used for a point in time and also for night and weekend. Used for age. At 5 o'clock, at night, at the weekend. At the age of 80 years old.
BY
Used to describe up to a certain time at the latest. I will be finished by 8pm.
FOR
A period of time. I worked there for five years.
IN
Used for months, seasons, years, periods of the days except for night - In march, in spring, in 2010, in the afternoon.
SINCE
From a past time up to the present time. Since 8am.
TO
Telling the time and giving the beginning and end of a period. The time is 20 to 1, from January to April, from March to April.
2 PREPOSITIONS WITH PLACE
The following list of prepositions are used for specific situations regarding place:
AT
Describing a general place where somebody or something is doing something – at the theatre