Speak Business English Like An American covers over 350 idioms and expressions you're likely to encounter in today's business world. Familiarize yourself with all of them.
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English Grammar in Use With Answers
Students who want help with English grammar. It is written for you to use without a teacher.
Will be useful for you if you are not sure of the answers to questions like these:
- What is the difference between I did and I have done?
- When do we use will for the future?
- What is the structure after I wish?
- When do we say used to do and when do we say used to doing?
- When do we use the?
- What is the difference between like and as?
Table of Contents
- Unit 1: Present continuous (I am doing)
- Unit 2: Present simple (I do)
- Unit 3: Present continuous and present simple 1 (I am doing and I do)
- Unit 4: Present continuous and present simple 2 (I am doing and I do)
- Unit 5: Past simple (I did)
- Unit 6: Past continuous (I was doing)
- Unit 7: Present perfect 1 (I have done)
- Unit 8: Present perfect 2 (I have done)
- Unit 9: Present perfect continuous (I have been doing)
- Unit 10: Present perfect continuous and simple (I have been doing and I have done)
- Unit 11: How long have you (been) ...?
- Unit 12: For and Since When ...? and How long ...?
- Unit 13: Present perfect and past 1 (I have done and I did)
- Unit 14: Present perfect and past 2 (I have done and I did)
- Unit 15: Past perfect (I had done)
- Unit 16: Past perfect continuous (I had been doing)
- Unit 17: Have and have got
- Unit 18: Used to (do)
- Unit 19: Present tenses (I am doing / I do) for the future
- Unit 20: (I'm) going to (do)
- Unit 21: Will/shall 1
- Unit 22: Will/shall 2
- Unit 23: I will and I'm going to
- Unit 24: Will be doing and will have done
- Unit 25: When I do / When I've done When and if
- Unit 26: Can, could and (be) able to
- Unit 27: Could (do) and could have (done)
- Unit 28: Must and can't
- Unit 29: May and might 1
- Unit 30: May and might 2
- Unit 31: Have to and must
- Unit 32: Must / mustn't / needn't
- Unit 33: Should 1
- Unit 34: Should 2
- Unit 35: Had better / It's time ...
- Unit 36: Would
- Unit 37: Can/Could/Would you ... ? etc. (Requests, offers, permission and invitations)
- Unit 38: If I do ... and If I did ...
- Unit 39: If I knew... I wish I knew ...
- Unit 40: If I had known ... I wish I had known ...
- Unit 41: Wish
- Unit 42: Passive 1 (is done / was done)
- Unit 43: Passive 2 (be done / been done / being done)
- Unit 44: Passive 3
- Unit 45: It is said that ... He is said to ... He is supposed to ...
- Unit 46: Have something done
- Unit 47: Reported speed 1 (He said that ...)
- Unit 48: Reported speed 2
- Unit 49: Question 1
- Unit 50: Question 2 (Do you know where ...? / He asked me where ...)
- Unit 51: Auxiliary verbs (have/do/can etc.) I think so / I hope so etc.
- Unit 52: Question tags (do you? isn't it? ect.)
- Unit 53: Verb + -ing (enjoy doing / stop doing ect.)
- Unit 54: Verb + to ... (decide to ... / forget to ... etc.)
- Unit 55: Verb (+ object) + to ... (I want you to ... ect.)
- Unit 56: Verb + -ing or to ... 1 (remember/regret ect.)
- Unit 57: Verb + -ing or to ... 2 (try/need/help)
- Unit 58: Verb + -ing or to ... 3 (like / would like etc.)
- Unit 59: Prefer and would rather
- Unit 60: Preposition (in/for/about etc.) + -ing
- Unit 61: Be/get used to something (I'm used to ...)
- Unit 62: Verb + preposition + -ing (succeed in -ing / accuse somebody of -ing etc.)
- Unit 63: Expressions + -ing
- Unit 64: To ..., for ... and so that ...
- Unit 65: Adjective + to ...
- Unit 66: To ... (afraid to do) and preposition + -ing (afraid of -ing)
- Unit 67: See somebody do and see somebody doing
- Unit 68: -ing clauses (Feeling tired, I went to bed early.)
- Unit 69: Countable and uncountable 1
- Unit 70: Countable and uncountable 2
- Unit 71: Countable nouns with a/an and some
- Unit 72: A/an and the
- Unit 73: The 1
- Unit 74: The 2 (school / the school etc.)
- Unit 75: The 3 (children / the children)
- Unit 76: The 4 (the giraffe / the telephone / the piano etc. ; the + adjective)
- Unit 77: Names with and without the 1
- Unit 78: Names with and without the 2
- Unit 79: Singular and plural
- Unit 80: Noun + noun (a tennis ball / a headache)
- Unit 81: -'s (your sister's name) and of ... (the name of the book)
- Unit 82: Myself/yourself/themselves etc.
- Unit 83: A friend of mine / my own house / on my own / by myself
- Unit 84: There ... and it ...
- Unit 85: Some and any
- Unit 86: No/none/any Nothing/nobody ect.
- Unit 87: Much, many, little, few, a lot, plenty
- Unit 88: All / all of most / most of no / none of etc.
- Unit 89: Both / both of neither / neither of either / either of
- Unit 90: All, every and whole
- Unit 91: Each and every
- Unit 92: Relative clauses 1 - clauses with who/that/which
- Unit 93: Relative clauses 2 - clauses with and without who/that/which
- Unit 94: Relative clauses 3 - whose/whom/where
- Unit 95: Relative clauses 4 - extra information clauses (1)
- Unit 96: Relative clauses 5 - extra information clauses (2)
- Unit 97: -ing and -ed clauses (the woman talking to Tom, the boy injured in the accident)
- Unit 98: Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed (boring/bored etc.)
- Unit 99: Adjectives - a nice new house, you look tired
- Unit 100: Adjectives and adverbs 1 (quick/quickly)
- Unit 101: Adjectives and adverbs 2 (well/fast/late, hard/hardly)
- Unit 102: So and such
- Unit 103: Enough and too
- Unit 104: Quite, pretty, rather and fairly
- Unit 105: Comparison 1 (cheaper, more expensive etc.)
- Unit 106: Comparison 2 (much better / any better / better and better / the sooner the better)
- Unit 107: Comparison 3 (as ... as / than)
- Unit 108: Superlatives (the longest / the most enjoyable etc.)
- Unit 109: Word order 1 - verb + object; place and time
- Unit 110: Word order 2 - adverbs with the verb
- Unit 111: Still, yet and already - Any more / any longer / no longer
- Unit 112: Even
- Unit 113: Although / though / even though - In spite of / despite
- Unit 114: In case
- Unit 115: Unless - As long as - Provided/providing
- Unit 116: As (As I walked along the street ... / As I was hungry ...)
- Unit 117: Like and as
- Unit 118: Like / as if / as though
- Unit 119: For, during and while
- Unit 120: By and until / By the time ...
- Unit 121: At/on/in (time)
- Unit 122: On time and in time / At the end and in the end
- Unit 123: In/at/on (position) 1
- Unit 124: In/at/on (position) 2
- Unit 125: In/at/on (position) 3
- Unit 126: To/at/in/into
- Unit 127: In/on/at (other uses)
- Unit 128: By
- Unit 129: Noun + preposition (reason for, cause of etc.)
- Unit 130: Adjective + preposition 1
- Unit 131: Adjective + preposition 2
- Unit 132: Verb + preposition 1 (to and at)
- Unit 133: Verb + preposition 2 (about/for/of/after)
- Unit 134: Verb + preposition 3 (about and of)
- Unit 135: Verb + preposition 4 (of/for/from/on)
- Unit 136: Verb + preposition 5 (in/into/with/to/on)
- Unit 137: Phrasal verbs 1 (General points)
- Unit 138: Phrasal verbs 2 (in/out)
- Unit 139: Phrasal verbs 3 (out)
- Unit 140: Phrasal verbs 4 - on/off (1)
- Unit 141: Phrasal verbs 5 - on/off (2)
- Unit 142: Phrasal verbs 6 (up/down)
- Unit 143: Phrasal verbs 7 - up (1)
- Unit 144: Phrasal verbs 8 - up (2)
- Unit 145: Phrasal verbs 9 (away/back)
- Appendix 1: Regular and irregular verbs
- Appendix 2: Present and past tenses
- Appendix 3: The future
- Appendix 4: Modal verbs (can/could/will/would etc.)
- Appendix 5: Short forms (I'm / you've / didn't etc.)
- Appendix 6: Spelling
- Appendix 7: American English
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