LONGMAN ENGLISH GRAMMAR PRACTICE for intermediate students L. G. Alexander doc

[...]... or 'for yourlmy benefit' to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 I've cooked a meal for you and I hope'you enjoy it Let me cook the dinner for you this evening -Thanks! I've made this cake for you Do you like it? 11 post this letter for you, shall I? 1 ' I've bought this especially for you I've got some change Let me pay the bill for you As you're busy, let me book a room for you I've saved some of this pudding for. .. we use forafter verbs normally followed by for (buy, choose, do, find, keep, order, etc.) the meaning depends on the context It can mean 'for someone's benefit': Mother cooked a lovely meal for me (= for my benefit, for me to enjoy) It can mean 'on someone's behalflinstead of': 1 1 cook the dinner for you (on your behalflinstead of you - to save you the trouble) 1 ' Write: Tick (J) show whether for means... 4 5 6 7 8 For more material and information, please visit www.tailieuduhoc.org 1.3 The simple sentence: direct and indirect objects 1.3C The two meanings of 'for' Study: r**I [> LEG 1.i3.3] 1 We can use for after all verbs which have two objects [> 1.3AI 2 When we use for after verbs normally followed by to (give, post, read, sell, show, tell, etc.) it can mean 'instead of': 1'11post it for you (=... pudding for you 1 can't choose a tie myself Please choose one for me My father has bought a wonderful present for me 1.30 Context Write: ' Put a tick (J) where you think you can change the word order A CURE FOR HYSTERIA When I was a girl, my parents sent me to a very strict school They had to buy an expensive uniform for me and pay school fees for me 2 Our headmistress, Miss Prim, never smiled She explained... relative clauses add 'extra information' If we take them out of the sentences, we won't seriously change the meaning We call these non-defining clauses (they do not 'define') and we use commas before and after them 4 Sometimes we have to decide when the information is 'essential' or 'extra' and we may or may not use commas We must decide this for ourselves: For more material and information, please visit... wrote in pencil - reason (for) : We rarely stay in hotels, for we can't afford it 4 We do not usually put a comma in front of and, but we often use one in front of other conjunctions: He washed the car and polished it (no comma before and) Compare: He washed the car, but didn't polish it ( ~ ~ m m a but) befare I I - 5 We keep to the basic word order in a compound sentence [> l.lA, 1 X I : object conjunction... book for me, we can say: Buy me the book 2 Some verbs combine with TO: bring, give, lend, pay, post, sell, send, show, tell, write: Bring that book to me - Bring me that book , 3 Other verbs combine with FOR: buy, choose, cook, cut, do, fetch, find, get, make, order: Please order a meal for me - Please order me a meal , 4 We can put it and them after the verb: Give it to me Buy them for me Do it for. .. shouldn't smoke There's a pension scheme for people who work for this company There's a crime prevention scheme for people who are living in this neighbourhood There's someone who is knocking at the door 1.11D Context Write: Use the -ing form of the verbs in brackets and put in after, as, when and who THE CASE OF THE POISONED MUSHROOMS While (prepare) 'W- a meal for her guests, Mrs Grant got rather worried... having a tantrum! For more material and information, please visit www.tailieuduhoc.org 2 Nouns 2.2 Compound nouns 2.2A Nouns formed with gerund ('-ing') + noun: 'dancing-shoes' [>LEG 2.7, 2.11n.3, 6.3.1, 16.39.31 Study: U 1 When a noun has two or more parts (e.g classroom), we call it a compound noun We can make compound nouns with the -ing form: e.g dancing-shoes [compare > 16.51 2 The -ing form can sometimes... them to form compound nouns: a watch made of gold -+ a gold watch (Not "golden') These words behave like adjectives in this one way, but they remain nouns because they do not have comparative or superlative forms and we cannot put very in front of them We stress both words in spoken English: I can't afford a 'gold'watch [> 6.4B-Dl 2 Two important exceptions are wood and wool, which have adjectival forms: . British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Alexander, L. G. (Louis George) 1932- Longman English grammar practice (Intermediate level) 1. English language. Grammar I. Title 428.2 Library. Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Alexander, L. G. Longman English gmmmar practice (Intermed~ate level) 1 L G Alexander. p. cm. 1. English language - Textbooks for fore~gn. of English grammar. This book is based on the Longman English Grammar and the grammatical information in it is all drawn from this work. Longman English Grammar Practice has been designed