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Essential
Grammar
in Use A self-study
reference
and practice
book for
elementary
students of
English
T H I R D
EDITION
with answers
Raymond Murphy
Essential
Grammar
T H I R D
EDITION
Raymond Murphy
A self-study
reference
and practice
book for
elementary
students of
English
with answers
g g g C a m b r i d g e
U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S
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Contents
Thanks vii
To the student viii
To the teacher x
Present
(present continuous)
1 am /is/are
2 am /is/are (questions)
3 I am doing
4 are you doing? (present continuous questions)
5 I d o/w ork/like etc. (present simple)
6 I d on ’t ... (present simple negative)
7 D o you ... ? (present simple questions)
8
9
am doing
have ... and I’ve got ...
(present continuous) and I do
I
I
(present simple)
Past
10 w as/w ere
11 w ork ed/got/w en t etc. (past simple)
12
13
14 I was doing (past continuous) and I did (past simple)
I didn’t ...
I was doing
(past continuous)
D id you ... ? (past simple negative and questions)
I’ve just ...
Present perfect
15 I have done (present perfect 1)
I’ve already ...
16
17 H ave you ever ... ? (present perfect 3)
18 H ow long have you ... ? (present perfect 4)
19
2 0
for
I have done (present perfect) and I did (past)
I haven’t
since
ago
... yet (present perfect 2)
Passive
21
2 2
is d one
is being done
was done (passive 1)
has been done (passive 2 )
Verb form s
23 b e/h a v e/d o in present and past tenses
24 Regular and irregular verbs
Future
25 W hat are you doing tom orrow?
26
27 w ill/shall 1
28 w ill/shall 2
I’m going to ...
Modals, imperative etc.
29 m ight
30 can and could
31 m ust m ustn’t don ’t need to
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I have to ...
32 should
33
34 W ould you like ... ?
I’d like ...
35 D o this! D o n ’t do that! Let’s
36 I used to ...
do this!
There and it
37
38
39 It ...
there is
there w as/w ere
there are
there has/have been
there will be
Auxiliary verbs
40 I am , I d on ’t etc.
41 Have you? Are you? D o n ’t you? etc.
42 to o/eith er
43
isn’t, haven’t, d on ’t etc. (negatives)
so am I / neither do I etc.
is it ... ?
have you ... ?
Questions
44
45 W ho saw you? W ho did you see? (questions 2)
46 W ho is she talking to? W hat is it like?
47 W hat ... ? W hich ... ? H ow ... ? (questions 4)
48 H ow lon g does it take ... ?
49 D o you know where
... ?
I don’t know what ... etc.
(questions 3)
do they ... ? etc. (questions 1)
Reported speech
50 She said that ...
He told m e that ...
-ing and to ...
51 w ork/w orking
52
53
54
to ... (I want to do) and -in g (I enjoy doing)
I want you to ...
I w ent to the shop to ...
I told you to ...
g o /g o in g
d o/d oin g
Go, get, do, make and have
55 go to ...
56 get
57 do and m ake
58 have
go on ...
go for ...
go -ing
th ey/th em etc.
Pronouns and possessives
59 I/m e
h e/h im
60 m y/h is/th eir etc.
61 W hose is this? It’s m in e/you rs/hers etc.
62 I/m e /m y /m in e
63 m yself/yourself/them selves etc.
64
- ’s (Kate’s camera / m y brother’s car etc.)
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train(s) bus(es)
(singular and plural)
A and the
65 a/an ...
6 6
67 a bottle / som e water (countable/uncountable 1)
6 8 a cake / som e cake / som e cakes (countable/uncountable 2 )
69 a/an and the
70
71 go to work
72
I like m usic
the ...
73
go h om e
I hate exam s
go to the cinem a
(names of places)
the ...
no
th is/that/these/th ose
Determiners and pronouns
74
75 on e/on es
76 som e and any
77 not + any
78 n ot + anybody/anyone/anything
79 som ebody/anything/now here etc.
80 every and all
81 all m ost
82 both
83 a lot
84
som e
either neither
m uch
(a) little
(a) few
m any
none
any
n o /n o n e
n ob o d y /n o -o n e/n o th in g
Adjectives and adverbs
85 old/n ice/interestin g etc. (adjectives)
8 6 quickly/badly/suddenly etc. (adverbs)
expensive / m ore expensive
87 o ld /o ld er
88 older than ... m ore expensive than ...
89 not as ... as
90
91
92
the oldest
enough
too
the m ost expensive
Word order
93 He speaks English very well, (word order 1)
94 alw ays/usually/often etc. (word order 2)
95 still
already
96 Give m e that book!
Give it to me!
yet
or
but
Conjunctions and clauses
97 and
98 W hen ...
99
100 If I had ...
101
1 0 2
a person w ho ...
the people we m et
If we go ...
so
because
If you see ... etc.
If we w ent ... etc.
a thing that/w hich ... (relative clauses
1)
the hotel you stayed at (relative clauses 2)
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V
on M onday
until
since
in April
for
during
after
on (places 1)
on (places 2 )
at (places 3)
Prepositions
103 at 8 o ’clock
104 from ... to
105 before
in
106
in
107
108 to
109 under, behind, opposite etc.
1 1 0 up, over, through etc.
111 on
1 1 2 afraid
listen
113
o f . . .
to ...
at
at
in
at
w hile
about
by
with
, good at ... etc.
, look at ... etc. (verb + preposition)
o f/a t/fo r etc. (prepositions) + -in g
Phrasal verbs
114 go in, fall off, run away etc. (phrasal verbs 1)
115 put on your shoes
put your shoes on (phrasal verbs 2 )
Appendices
Appendix 1 Active and passive 243
Appendix 2 List of irregular verbs 244
Appendix 3 Irregular verbs in groups 245
Appendix 4 Short forms (he’s / I’d / d on ’t etc.) 246
Appendix 5 Spelling 248
Appendix 6 Phrasal verbs (take o ff / give up etc.) 250
Appendix 7 Phrasal verbs + object (put out a fire / give up your job etc.) 251
Additional exercises 252
Study guide 271
Key to Exercises 283
Key to Additional exercises 310
Key to Study guide 313
Index 315
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Thanks
For their help in producing this third edition o f Essential Grammar in Use, I would like to
thank Liz Driscoll, Jessica R oberts and Alison Sharpe. I would also like to thank the teachers
and reviewers from various countries who provided me with feedback on the previous edition.
Illustrations by Kate Charlesworth, Richard Deverell, Gillian Martin, R oger Penwill,
Lisa Smith, Ian West and Simon Williams
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