Grammar in Context: Proficiency Level English by Hugh Gethin

Grammar in Context is a reference grammar and practical workbook combined. This new edition retains the popular format of the original book, consolidating and extending the productive range of the advanced student. Students preparing for the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English or equivalent examinations will find the book particularly relevant to their needs.

The material has been fully revised and updated for this new edition. The book now incorporates a more comprehensive focus on style, as well as many refinements to explanations, examples, exercises and study lists.

The link between grammar and meaning is central to both explanations and exercises, and wherever possible grammar is treated at text rather than sentence level. As well as giving coverage to such topics as adverbials, auxiliary verbs, the passive, dependent prepositions and phrasal verbs, there are sections on features associated with extended discourse - linking, the use of reported speech, and the inversion of subject and verb to create dramatic nuance.

Grammar in Context is suitable for classroom use with a teacher or for self study at home. Comprehensive subject and word indexes make the book fully accessible to students working on their own. A key to exercises is included at the back of the book.