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Level:

- for beginners (elementary) students, and can also be used by intermediate-level students whose grammar is “lame”. Explanations are as simple and short as possible with illustrations
— the vocabulary in the book is strictly limited (the first thousand words)

How to use the book:

- can be used for independent study, as well as additional material for any course
- can be used as a basic reference book
— when used in courses, it can be used to instantly consolidate the material covered or further return to covered topics and work on mistakes.
— you can use the left side of the book for explanations in class, but remember, the book is more suitable for independent study and as a reference.
- in most cases, the teacher is recommended to independently explain the material, give exercises, and then use the left side as a reference when checking the house. tasks.
— it would be good for the teacher to use the book to review what has been covered and for students to independently work on mistakes in the relevant chapters ( units).

Here is a tutorial on English grammar for beginners. It consists of 115 sections, each of which is devoted to a specific section of English grammar.

Am/ is/ are.
Am/is/are is usually not translated into Russian:
I"m 32 years old. My sister is 29.
I am 32 years old. My sister is 29 years old.
Steve is II. He's in bed Steve is sick. He's in bed.
My car is very old. My car is very old.
Anna and I are good friends. Anna and I are good friends
You"re very busy today. Today you are very busy.
Your keys are on the table. Your keys are on the table
I"m not English. I"m from Scotland.
I'm not English. I'm from Scotland.
James isn't a teacher. He's a student James isn't a teacher. He is a student.
Those people aren't American. They're Australian.
These people are not Americans. They are Australians.

Please note that in these sentences you must use It"s:
It's nine o'clock. / It's ten o'clock. / lt "s 6.45. (Now)... hours.
It"s early. / It"s late. (It's) early/late.
that"s = that is there"s = there to here’s = here is
Thank you. That's very kind of you.
... It is very kind of you.
Look! There's Chris. Look! Here's Chris.
a: Here’s your key. Here's your key.
Q: Thank you.

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There is hardly a person among students of English who has not heard the name of the author of the books - Raymond Murphy. The Red Textbook is a reference book for both teachers and students around the world. For more than 30 years, it has been the leader in sales among grammar textbooks. The textbooks in question are part of the English In Use series by Raymond Murphy (pictured below left) and other authors, published by the University of Cambridge.

History of textbooks

Raymond Murphy is an American who taught English in Germany. Over time, his experience working with foreign students allowed him to create a textbook that could be used all over the world. In total, the course has 3 textbooks - red for beginners (Elementary Grammar in Use), blue (Intermediate Grammar in Use) and green (Advanced Grammar in Use). Below we will consider what each of the textbooks includes and how to study them independently in order to achieve positive results.

Before considering the features of each of the books, it is worth noting their common features - they all consist of lessons (unit), including one or more grammar topics on two pages (one - theory, the other - practice), applications and keys to exercises for testing . The completed theory can be fixed directly in the book and it is advisable to keep notes in pencil in order to correct errors during testing or in the future when repeating there are no ready-made answers to tasks.

All textbooks are written in English, but work is underway on a Russian version of the publications, which will explain in detail aspects of the foreign language that are particularly difficult for students.

Red

The textbook "Raymond Murphy. Elementary Grammar in Practice" consists of 107 lessons, 6 applications, additional exercises and keys to all tasks. This textbook is recommended for those students who can read English, have just started learning the language, or have been studying for a long time, but there are topics in which there are still unclear aspects. Only the most necessary grammar for mastering the basic level is discussed here. The structure of the textbook allows you to go through topics both step by step and selectively, as there are links to related topics. The textbook contains audio with voiceovers of examples from the theoretical part of the lessons. At the end of the book there is a self-test - a questionnaire that includes all the course topics from the textbook, which allows you to identify sections of grammar that are poorly studied and need to be repeated.

The appendices cover topics such as:

• Irregular Verbs;
• phrasal verbs;
• spelling (letter-by-letter pronunciation of a word);
• short forms of verbs.

This textbook is suitable for those whose language level corresponds to A1, A2 and B1 on the European Framework of Reference for Languages ​​scale.

Blue

The next textbook in the series, authored by Raymond Murphy, is a manual with a blue cover, which includes 147 lessons, 7 appendices, including additional material with grammar tables (a complete table of irregular verbs, differences between American and British versions of the language), self-test exercises and answers to assignments. This edition includes an additional textbook with exercises (English Grammar in Use. Supplementary exercises) and a disc with voice-overs of examples from units.

It is suitable for those who want to know the language at level B1 and B2.

Green

Another textbook is practical grammar for advanced level. It was not written by Raymond Murphy, but by Martin Hevings. But due to the fact that it complements the line of textbooks "Raymond Murphy. English Grammar in Use" it is called the "green Murphy". This is the latest edition in the line and is a kind of Everest, which many students, even if they want to, cannot conquer for many reasons, one of which is complexity. It consists of 100 units. Unlike the two previous books, the features and subtleties of using English grammar are discussed here. There is no additional book with exercises for this textbook, but there is a disk.

This textbook is an excellent choice for those who want to know English at the level of native speakers C1 and C2. The course of this textbook will help you pass international exams - TOEFL and IELTS.

Each of the courses presented in the textbooks requires systematic training at least three times a week for 60 minutes. This approach will allow you to achieve positive results and test them in practice. The In Use series involves self-study, and if during the learning process a student has problems understanding the material presented, then you can use video lessons from English teachers that are freely available on the Internet or ask friends who are native speakers for help.

English Grammar in Use is an extremely popular English grammar textbook written by ESL teacher Raymond Murphy. The total circulation of this manual is more than ten million copies. “The blue Murphy,” as teachers from the UK call this textbook, enjoys well-deserved recognition among both teachers and English language learners.
The book successfully combines both a reference book on English grammar and a collection of exercises to consolidate what has been learned. It is divided into 136 sections (Units), each of which explains and reinforces a certain aspect of grammar and takes up an entire spread: theory on the left half, practice on the right. All units are independent and can be completed in any order.

Exercises.
Yeah the underlined verbs right or wrong? Correct them where necessary.
1 Ben is a friend of mine. I know him very well.
2 Ben is a friend of mine. I know him for a long time.
3 Sarah and Adam are married since July.
4 The weather is awful. It's raining again.
5 The weather is awful. It's raining all day.
6 I like your house. How long are you living there?
7 Gary is working in a shop for the last few months.
8 I don"t know Tom well. We"ve only met a few times.
9 I gave up drinking coffee. I don't drink it for a year.
10 That's a very old bike. How long do you have it?

Read the situations and write questions from the words in brackets.
1 A friend tells you that Paul is in hospital. You ask him: (how long / be / in hospital?)
2 You meet a woman who tells you that she teaches English. You ask her: (how long / teach / English?)
3 You know that Jane is a good friend of Katherine's. You ask Jane: (how long / know / Katherine?)
4 Your friend "s brother went to Australia some time ago and he"s still there. You ask your friend: (how long / be / in Australia?)
5 Tom always wears the same jacket. It"s a very old jacket. You ask him: (how long / have / that jacket?)
6 You are talking to a friend about Joe. Joe now works at the airport. You ask your friend: (how long / work / at the airport?)
7 A friend of yours is having guitar lessons. You ask him: (how long/have/guitar lessons?)
8 You meet somebody on a plane. She says that she lives in Chicago. You ask her: (always / live / in Chicago?).

Contents
Thanks vii
To the student viii
To the teacher x
Present and past
1 Present continuous (I am doing)
2 Present simple (I do)
3 Present continuous and present simple 1 (I am doing and I do)
4 Present continuous and present simple 2 (I am doing and I do)
5 Past simple (I did)
6 Past continuous (I was doing)
Present perfect and past
7 Present perfect 1 (I have done)
8 Present perfect 2 (I have done)
9 Present perfect continuous (I have been doing)
10 Present perfect continuous and simple (I have been doing and I have done)
11 How long have you (been)... ?
12 For and since When...? and How long... ?
13 Present perfect and past 1 (I have done and I did)
14 Present perfect and past 2 (I have done and I did)
15 Past perfect (I had done)
16 Past perfect continuous (I had been doing)
17 Have and have got
18 Used to (do)
Future
19 Present tenses (I am doing /1 do) for the future
20 (I"m) going to (do)
21 Will/shall 1
22 Will/shall 2
23 I will and I"m going to
24 Will be doing and will have done
25 When I do/When I"ve done When and if
Modals
26 Can, could and (be) able to
27 Could (do) and could have (done)
28 Must and can't
29 May and might 1
30 May and might 2
31 Have to and must
32 Mustn't needn't
33 Should 1
34 Should 2
35 Had better It's time...
36 Would
37 Can/Could/Would you ... ? etc. (Requests, offers, permission and invitations)
If and wish
38 If I do ... and If I did ...
39 If I knew... I wish I knew...
40 If I had known ... I wish I had known ...
41 Wish
Passive
42 Passive 1 (is done / was done)
43 Passive 2 (be done / been done / being done)
44 Passive 3
45 It is said that... He is said to... He is supposed to...
46 Have something done
Reported speech
47 Reported speech 1 (He said that...)
48 Reported speech 2
Questions and auxiliary verbs
49 Questions 1
50 Questions 2 (Do you know where... ? / He asked me where ...)
51 Auxiliary verbs (have/do/can etc.) I think so/I hope so etc.
52 Question tags (do you? isn't it? etc.)
-ing and to...
53 Verb + -ing (enjoy doing / stop doing etc.)
54 Verb + to ... (decide to ... / forget to ... etc.)
55 Verb (+ object) + to ... (I want you to ... etc.)
56 Verb + -ing or to ... 1 (remember/regret etc.)
57 Verb + -ing or to ... 2 (try/need/help)
58 Verb + -ing or to ... 3 (like / would like etc.)
59 Prefer and would rather
60 Preposition (in/for/about etc.) + -ing
61 Be/get used to something (I"m used to ...)
62 Verb + preposition + -ing (succeed in -ing / accuse somebody of -ing etc.)
63 Expressions + -ing
64 To..., for... and so that...
65 Adjective + to...
66 To ... (afraid to do) and preposition + -ing (afraid of -ing)
67 See somebody do and see somebody doing
68 -ing clauses (Feeling tired, I went to bed early.)
Articles and nouns
69 Countable and uncountable 1
70 Countable and uncountable 2
71 Countable nouns with a/an and some
72 A/an and the
73 The1
74 The 2 (school / the school etc.)
75 The 3 (children / the children)
76 The 4 (the giraffe / the telephone / the piano etc., the + adjective)
77 Names with and without the 1
78 Names with and without the 2
79 Singular and plural
80 Noun + noun (a tennis ball / a headache)
81 - "s (your sister"s name) and of... (the name of the book)
Pronouns and determiners
82 Myself/yourself/themselves etc.
83 A friend of mine My own house On my own / by myself
84 There... and it...
85 Some and any
86 No/none/any Nothing/nobody etc.
87 Much, many, little, few, a lot, plenty
88 All/all of most/most of no/none of etc.
89 Both / both of neither / neither of either / either of
90 All, every and whole
91 Each and every
Relative clauses
92 Relative clauses 1: clauses with who/that/which
93 Relative clauses 2: clauses with and without who/that/which
94 Relative clauses 3: whose/whom/where
95 Relative clauses 4: extra information clauses (1)
96 Relative clauses 5: extra information clauses (2)
97 -ing and -ed clauses (the woman talking to Tom, the boy injured in the accident)
Adjectives and adverbs
98 Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed (boring/bored etc.)
99 Adjectives: a nice new house, you look tired
100 Adjectives and adverbs 1 (quick/quickly)
101 Adjectives and adverbs 2 (well/fast/late, hard/hardly)
102 So and so
103 Enough and too
104 Quite, pretty, rather and fairly
105 Comparison 1 (cheaper, more expensive etc.)
106 Comparison 2 (much better / any better / better and better / the sooner the better)
107 Comparison 3 (as ... as / than)
108 Superlatives (the longest, the most enjoyable etc.)
109 Word order 1: verb + object; place and time
110 Word order 2: adverbs with the verb
111 Still, yet and already Any more / any longer / no longer
112 Evening
Conjunctions and prepositions
113 Although/though/even though In spite of/despite
114 In case
115 Unless As long as Provided/providing
116 As (As I walked along the street... / As I was hungry...)
117 Likes and ass
118 Like/as if/as though
119 For, during and while
120 By and until By the time...
Prepositions
121 At/on/in (time)
122 On time and in time At the end and in the end
123 In/at/on (position) 1
124 In/at/on (position) 2
125 In/at/on (position) 3
126 To/at/in/into
127 In/on/at (other uses)
128 By
129 Noun + preposition (reason for, cause of etc.)
130 Adjective + preposition 1
131 Adjective + preposition 2
132 Verb + preposition 1 to and at
133 Verb + preposition 2 about/for/of/after
134 Verb + preposition 3 about and of
135 Verb + preposition 4 of/for/from/on
136 Verb + preposition 5 in/into/with/to/on
Phrasal verbs
137 Phrasal verbs 1 General points
138 Phrasal verbs 2 in/out
139 Phrasal verbs 3 out
140 Phrasal verbs 4 on/off (1)
141 Phrasal verbs 5 on/off (2)
142 Phrasal verbs 6 up/down
143 Phrasal verbs 7 up (1)
144 Phrasal verbs 8 up (2)
145 Phrasal verbs 9 away/back
Appendix 1 Regular and irregular verbs 292
Appendix 2 Present and past tenses 294
Appendix 3 The future 295
Appendix 4 Modal verbs (can/could/will/would etc.) 296
Appendix 5 Short forms (I"m/you"ve/didn"t etc.) 297
Appendix 6 Spelling 298
Appendix 7 American English 300
Additional exercises 302
Study guide 326
Key to Exercises 336
Key to Additional exercises 368
Key to Study Guide 372
Index 373.

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5th edition of the book with electronic interactive version and audio (voiced sentences in explanations of units.) Buy V Russia→ or Buy V Ukraine→

with color illustrations.

No matter what publication you use, look for information by the title of the topic. The unit (chapter) numbers are slightly different in different editions, but The names of the topics do not change!

This is what the second edition of this textbook looks like. 2nd edition Raymond Murphy (Raymond Murphy, Murphy blue).

This is a continuation of the first textbook, Murphy’s red ‘Essential Grammar in use’→ (Essence, basic grammar in use).

To quickly jump to the desired unit, use the search bar on the site.’English Grammar in use’ English grammar in use. Self-instruction manual and exercises (with answers) for secondary students ( intermediate) students. Compared to the red textbook, the material is given in more depth, using more complex examples. The vocabulary is carefully chosen, moving into the ‘second thousand’ words.

Based on personal experience, I am sure that this book can also be used as a practical reference book for the English language. When I was studying at university in the USA, she helped me out more than once in difficult situations. I still keep that copy, still in the first edition. Already old and shabby, all written and crossed out with notes, broken into several parts, but occupying a place of honor on my desktop.