performative verbs (verbs used to perform an action) 7.64–7.66
permission 5.140–5.143
personal pronouns 1.5, 1.95–1.106
subject pronouns 1.96–1.103
position in clause 1.105–1.106
persuading 5.183
persuasive invitations 5.178–5.179
phrasal verbs 3.83–3.116, 6.111, 9.17
intransitive phrasal verbs with adverbs 3.85–3.86
intransitive phrasal verbs with prepositions 3.87–3.88, 9.23–9.24
transitive phrasal verbs 3.91–3.92
used both with and without an object 3.93–3.96
ergative phrasal verbs 3.97–3.100
position of the object 3.101–3.102
when the object is a pronoun 3.103
transitive phrasal verbs with prepositions 3.107–3.108
intransitive three-word phrasal verbs 3.111–3.112
transitive three-word phrasal verbs 3.113–3.114
in questions and relative clauses 3.115–3.116
place clauses 8.73–8.77
place names 6.122–6.127
for talking about the people who live or work there 6.125
for talking about events 6.126
as modifiers before nouns 6.127
plural forms 1.19–1.20, 1.91–1.92, 2.170, 2.182, 2.184, 2.243, R2–R19
plural nouns 1.41–1.46
use with modifiers 1.43
with or without determiners 1.44
politeness 9.90, 5.217–5.218, 5.220, 5.184
possession 1.194–1.222
possessive pronouns 1.107–1.110
possessive determiners 1.194–1.210
apostrophe s (‘s) 1.211–1.221
other ways of showing 1.222
possessive determiners 1.194–1.210
table of possessive determiners 1.195–1.196
position 1.197–1.198
agreement with noun 1.199
use of own 1.200
uses of possessive determiners 1.201–1.207
generic use 1.208
in titles 1.210
before -ing participle 3.203
possessive form
possessive pronouns 1.107–1.110
used with of 1.109–1.110
possibility 5.115, 5.135–5.136, 5.225–5.229, 7.54, 9.87
postdeterminers 2.40
predeterminers 1.251
predicative adjectives 2.44–2.50
prefacing structures (introducing your statement) 9.73–9.78
preference 5.204
prefixes 2.75, R68, R77–R78
prepositional phrases 6.3, 6.78–6.121
referring to time 4.85–4.142, 6.103
position of 6.78
after nouns 6.100–6.101
showing reason, cause, or purpose 6.110
after nouns and adjectives 6.117–6.120
with reporting verbs 7.85
prepositions 6.73–6.121
after verbs showing position 6.78
after verbs indicating movement 6.79–6.83
after verbs indicating activities 6.80–6.81
showing position 6.85–6.87
with comparative forms 6.88
showing position and distance 6.92
showing direction 6.93–6.99
used with verbs 6.111–6.116
extended meanings of prepositions 6.121
present continuous
present perfect 4.33–4.36, R100
situations that still exist 4.35
emphasizing duration of event 4.36
time adverbials used with the present perfect 4.46–4.48
present perfect progressive 4.35–4.36, R101
present possibility 5.124
present progressive 4.17–4.20, R128
moment of speaking 4.17
emphasizing the present moment 4.18
progressive change 4.19
habitual actions 4.20
firm plans for the future 4.60
vivid narrative 4.65
in conditional sentences 8.29
present simple 4.8–4.16
general present including present moment 4.9
regular or habitual actions 4.11
in reviews 4.12–4.13
in commentaries 4.14
in reporting 4.15
commenting 4.16
vivid narrative 4.65
in conditional sentences 8.29
present time 4.7–4.25
present simple 4.8–4.16
present progressive 4.17–4.20
using time adverbials to indicate present time 4.21–4.25
previous 2.232, 4.107, 10.11
promises 5.8
pronouns 1.93–1.161
•generic pronouns 1.119–1.123
•indefinite pronouns 1.128–1.141
•interrogative pronouns 1.151–1.153
•demonstrative pronouns 1.124–1.127
•personal pronouns 1.95–1.106
•possessive pronouns 1.107–1.110
•reciprocal pronouns 1.142–1.145
•reflexive pronouns 1.111–1.118
•relative pronouns 1.146–1.150
as objects 3.75
after linking verbs 3.145
used for referring back 10.3
pronunciation R1
of the 1.165
of a or an 1.229
of there 9.46
of the plurals of nouns R4–R8
of possessives R32–R40
of apostrophe s forms R37–R38
of verb forms R55–R59, R72
proper nouns 1.3, 1.52–1.58
relationship nouns 1.54
titles 1.55
in noun modifiers 2.173–2.174
punctuation
of quotes 7.26
of non-defining relative clauses 8.86
purpose clauses 8.43–8.48
putting something first 9.69
verb first 8.36–8.37
adverbials first 9.70
reported question first 9.71
using whole sentences to point forward 9.78
—————— Q ——————
qualifiers (expanding the noun phrase) 1.178, 1.231, 2.272–2.301, 6.100–6.101
qualitative adjectives 2.7, 2.22–2.25
qualitative -ed adjectives 2.80
compound qualitative adjectives 2.97
intensifying qualitative adjectives 2.143–2.144
reducing the effect of qualitative adjectives 2.145
linking qualitative adjectives 8.181
quantity expressions 2.176–2.193
numbers as quantity expressions 2.227
questions 5.10–5.34
yes/no-questions 5.12–5.13
question tags 5.15–5.20
either/or-questions 5.20
without a verb 5.25, 5.45
rhetorical questions 5.44, 9.94
with modals 5.103
reporting questions 7.32
wh-questions 7.37–7.38
question tags 5.15–5.20
forming question tags 5.16
checking statements 5.17
replying to tags 5.18
other uses 5.19
with modals 5.104
quite 2.193, 6.49–6.50
quotation marks 7.16, 7.26
quotes 7.2, 7.16
—————— R ——————
rarely 5.80–5.86
rather
before a comparative 2.162
would rather 5.204
reason clauses 8.49–8.53
reciprocal pronouns 1.142–1.145
reciprocal verbs 3.5, 3.68–3.70
referring back 1.173–1.174, 10.2–10.39
with determiners 10.4–10.5
demonstratives referring to things 10.7–10.9