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Dependent prepositions 
(2)
be annoyed at finding
/
to find
,
 insist on
/
that
They accused her of stealing. Can you explain it to me?
Prepositional verb: 
I’ll look into that.
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Phrasal verbs
Phrasal: 
I made up that story. I made it up.
Phrasal-prepositional: 
We let him in on the plan. 
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Common collocations
light meal
,
 poor health
,
 make an enquiry
,
 do the shopping
,
 
have a chat
,
 take turns
,
 
etc.
294
Review
298
 
 
Word formation and words often confused 
natural history
pre-start + Diagnostic test
282
 
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Word formation
Suffixes and prefixes: 
history
/
historian
,
 centre
/
central
,
 
argue
/
argument
,
 drive
/
overdrive
,
 pay
/
repay
,
 
etc.
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Compound nouns and adjectives
headache
,
 mobile phone
,
 feedback
,
 user-friendly
,
 self-conscious
,
 
etc.
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Verbs often confused
make
/
do
,
 bring
/
take
/
fetch
,
 speak
/
talk
,
 lay
/
lie
,
 raise
/
rise
,
 rob
/
steal
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Review
298
 
 
The grammar of formal English 
literature
pre-start + Diagnostic test
312
 
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Substitution 
(1)
 
nouns and noun phrases
The exhibition opens today. It will run for six weeks.
This reflects both my opinions and those of others.
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Substitution 
(2)
 
verbs and verb phrases
Most people enjoy swimming but I don’t.
Anyone wishing to ask a question should feel free to do so.
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Ellipsis
Lucy went to the counter and (she) asked for a coffee.
She said she was going out but she didn’t say where (she was going).
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Emphasis 
(1)
 
cleft sentences
It
clefts: 
It was Will Smith that Tom saw at the awards party.
Wh
- clefts: 
What we did was (to) buy tickets in advance.
The last thing (that) we did was (to) pack the kettle.
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contents
unit
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The grammar of formal English
continued 
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Emphasis 
(2)
 
inversion and fronting
Only later did Dickens produce full novels.
Then came the turning point as Ed scored a goal.
Emily cleaned the kitchen first. The other rooms she left for later.
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Organising information
in writing
Information principle: 
The door opened and John walked in. He was 
carrying a black leather briefcase.
End-weight principle: 
The champion was beaten by an unknown 
player of only twenty-one from the depths of Siberia.
Contrast: 
The car looked small. But inside it was quite spacious.
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Other text features
Nominalisation:
The government hesitated to lower taxes, which caused unrest.
➞
The government’s hesitation to lower taxes caused unrest.
Formality: 
The show starts at nine o’clock.
➞
The performance commences at nine o’clock.
Parallel structures: 
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
334
Review
338
 
 
The grammar of spoken English 
leisure activities
pre-start + Diagnostic test
340
 
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Spoken questions and responses
Indirect questions: 
Could you tell me when he left?
Question tags: 
Nobody has phoned, have they?
Echo questions: ‘
Jim’s been promoted.
’
 
‘
Has he? That’s great!
’
Short responses: ‘
I didn’t want to go.
’
 
‘
Me neither.
’
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Emphatic forms in speech
Do let me help you with that heavy case. 
Why on earth did you do that?
You must go. There are so many bargains this year.
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Adverbs
Modifying: 
dead scary
,
 a bit boring 
Sentence adverbs: 
frankly
,
 luckily
,
 to tell the truth
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Hypothesising in speech
What if we miss the train?
Suppose your parents had found out, how would they have felt?
Hurry up! It’s time we left for the airport.
Bring your swimsuit in case there’s a pool there.
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Other spoken features
Ellipsis: ‘
Want to buy some tickets?
’
 
‘
Mmm, I don’t know.
’
Inserts: 
Really? Yeah, right! 
etc.
Prefaces and tags: 
Spaghetti, I love it. It’s a great movie, this one.
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Review
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Grammar check 
 
APPENDIX 1 
Quick checks
360
 

QUICK CHECK 1
verb tenses and forms
360
 
 
QUICK CHECK 2
modal verbs
362
 
 
QUICK CHECK 3
linking words
366
 
APPENDIX 2 
Common prepositional phrases
365
 
APPENDIX 3 
Spelling rules
366
 
APPENDIX 4 
British and American English
368
 
APPENDIX 5 
Word lists
369
1 common adverb + adjective collocations
369
2 noun + preposition + noun 
/ 
-
ing
forms
370
3 adjective + prepositions
370
4 verb + direct object + preposition + indirect object
371
 
APPENDIX 6 
Common multi-word verbs
372
Index
373
Diagnostic test answers
384
Answer key
385
Pronunciation table
inside back cover
unit
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Adjectives and adverbs
MODULE
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Before you start
1 
Review these intermediate grammar points and check you know them.
Adjectives
1 
Adjectives are words which give extra information about nouns. They do not change
their form to show number or gender:
The hero was played by a 
young
 boy. Several 
young
 girls took the secondary roles.
2 
Many adjectives are formed from other words: 
history 
➞
 historic
beauty 
➞
 beautiful
depend 
➞
 dependent
effect 
➞
 effective
3 
We often use the past (-
ed
) and present (-
ing
) participles as adjectives to describe feelings
or emotions. 
We use the -
ing
form to describe a feeling that something causes:
It was a 
frightening
 fi lm.
(= It frightened us/made us feel afraid.)
We use the -
ed
form to describe a feeling that someone experiences:
I felt 
frightened
 when I watched that fi lm.
(= I was frightened/experienced fear.)
Inanimate objects cannot have feelings so we don’t usually use -
ed
adjectives about 
feelings to describe them:
✗ 
The report into police behaviour during the demonstration was rather worried.
✓ 
The report was rather 
worrying
.
(= The report made readers feel anxious.) 
4 
We can also combine words to make compound adjectives, e.g. 
home-made
, 
Spanish-speaking.
Adverbs
1 
Adverbs are words which modify or give extra information about verbs, adjectives, other
words or whole clauses. Here are some common examples:
not formed from other words
here just never quite soon still tomorrow too well
fi xed phrases
at last kind of of course
formed from other words
adjective + -
ly
(note spelling)
easy 
➞
 easily excitable 
➞
 excitably
real 
➞
 really tragic 
➞
 tragically
compounds
some + times 
➞
 sometimes
2 
The most common use of adverbs is to modify adjectives; the adverb usually comes 
before the adjective:
I thought his answers were 
pretty good
 on the whole. 
Those cars are 
terribly expensive
.
Some adverbs, e.g. 
really
, 
almost
, 
quite
, 
pretty
, can modify another adverb:
The French team did 
quite well
 in the fi rst round.
 
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Read the article and identify
examples of adjectives and adverbs.
3 
Complete the diagnostic test below. Choose the correct words in 
italics
. If both options are 
correct, choose both. 
1 In view of the terrible nature of the crime, 
the sentence imposed by the
➤
Unit 12.1
 
judge was maximum
/ 
the maximum sentence was imposed by the judge.
2 The 
involved people 
/ 
people involved
will be caught and severely punished.
➤
Unit 12.3
3 The rich 
seem 
/ 
seems
to be getting richer and the poor poorer these days.
➤
Unit 12.5
4 They’re selling that 
Victorian wonderful house
/ 
wonderful Victorian house
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Unit 13.1
on the corner.
5 Prisoners can be identifi ed by their 
grey and white
/ 
grey white
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Unit 13.2
striped uniforms. 
6 In the eighteenth century, the Bastille was the most infamous prison 
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Unit 14.1
of
/ 
in 
France. 
7 The divorce has undoubtedly made him the 
unhappiest
/ 
most unhappy
➤
Unit 14.3
man in the street. 
8 Our new social security scheme is 
lots
/ 
far
more generous than the
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Unit 14.5
previous government’s. 
9 Getting a made-to-measure suit was not nearly 
more expensive than
/
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Unit 15.1
as expensive as
I had feared. 
10 The more frustrated he becomes, 
angrier
/ 
the angrier
he gets.
➤
Unit 15.4
11 The fl avour is 
more sweet
/ 
sweeter
than savoury.
➤
Unit 15.5
12 Maria worked 
like
/ 
as
a shop assistant during the university vacation.
➤
Unit 15.6
13 The weather is Greece was 
more boiling
/ 
much hotter
than we expected.
➤
Unit 16.1
14 Steve’s sister is 
absolutely
/ 
very
intelligent.
➤
Unit 16.2
15 After two months with no rain the grass is 
almost
/ 
slightly
dead.
➤
Unit 16.5
16 The result of the election came as 
so
/ 
quite
a shock.
➤
Unit 17.2
17 As we descended the hill the car began to go 
faster
/ 
more fast
.
➤
Unit 17.3
18 I 
very carefully opened the old box containing my mother’s photographs
. /
➤
Unit 18.1
opened the old box containing my mother’s photographs very carefully
. 
19 I’ve been suffering from insomnia recently. 
I only slept last night
/
➤
Unit 18.2
Last night I only slept
for four hours. 
20 
Emotionally, Harriet 
/ 
Harriet emotionally
has always been dependent on
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Unit 18.5
her brothers.