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Market Leader 3rd Edition has been completely updated to reflect the fast changing world of business using authoritative and authentic business sources such as the Financial Times.
The 3rd Edition Course Book includes:
* All new reading texts from the Financial Times
* All new case studies with opinions on DVD-ROM from successful consultants who work in the real world of business
* All new listening texts reflecting the global nature of business, with interviews that can be viewed on the DVD-ROM
* New 'Business Across Cultures' spreads
* New Vocabulary Trainer www.marketleader.vocabtrainer.net
The DVD-ROM includes:
* Video interviews with business experts
* All Course Book audio
* New i-Glossary
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The Cambridge English Skills Series: Advanced Grammar in Use (Fifth Edition) A comprehensive resource for mastering complex grammatical structures and achieving fluency at the highest level. Overview This edition of Advanced Grammar in Use is specifically designed for learners operating at CEFR Level C1–C2, providing an unparalleled depth of grammatical understanding essential for academic study, professional communication, and nuanced self-expression in English. Moving beyond the foundational structures covered in intermediate texts, this book delves into the subtleties of advanced syntax, register variation, and idiomatic usage that define true mastery of the language. It serves not only as a reference manual but also as a rigorous tool for active skill development, ensuring learners can deploy complex grammar accurately and appropriately in diverse contexts. Key Features and Content Breakdown This volume is meticulously organized into 100 units, each focusing on a specific, challenging area of advanced grammar. The content is structured to build progressively, moving from complex tense usage to intricate modal structures, advanced subordination, and sophisticated lexical grammar integration. Part 1: Tense Systems and Aspectual Nuances This section revisits the core tense framework but explores its advanced applications, particularly where context dictates subtle shifts in meaning. Perfect and Progressive Forms in Advanced Contexts: Examination of the continuous aspect with stative verbs in specific contexts (e.g., expressing temporary, unusual behavior) and the use of perfect tenses for expressing recent or completed actions with present relevance in narrative structures. Future in the Past and Hypothetical Realities: In-depth coverage of sequences of tenses in reported speech and complex indirect questions, including the use of "was/were to have done" constructions to express intended but unfulfilled past actions. Temporal Clauses and Adverbials: Detailed analysis of how time clauses (using by the time, once, as long as) interact with complex main clause structures, focusing on ensuring temporal logic across lengthy sentences. Part 2: Modality, Deduction, and Attitude Mastery of modality is crucial for conveying degrees of certainty, obligation, and subjective perspective. This section provides exhaustive coverage. In-Depth Modal Verb Usage: Moving beyond basic necessity and permission, this covers the nuanced distinctions between must have, should have, needn't have for past speculation and criticism. Specific attention is paid to the near-modals (be bound to, be likely to, have to) and their integration into formal writing. Modal Adverbials and Viewpoint: How adverbs like perhaps, certainly, admittedly, and presumably modify the entire proposition, and how these choices signal the writer's epistemic stance. Semi-Modals and Epistemic Distance: Analyzing structures like may well, might just, and could possibly to express subtle gradations of possibility rather than firm likelihood. Part 3: Conditionals, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals This part focuses on structuring complex conditional logic, vital for academic argumentation and sophisticated discourse. Advanced Conditional Structures: Comprehensive treatment of mixed conditionals (e.g., past condition, present result; present condition, past result) and inverted conditionals (omitting if, using had, were, should). Implicit Conditionality: Examination of how conjunctions like unless, provided that, and in case are used to embed conditional logic without explicit "if" statements. Wish, If Only, and Unreal Past: Detailed comparative study of structures used for expressing present and past regrets, desires, and unrealized past possibilities, focusing on the precise verb forms required following wish and if only. Part 4: Nominalization, Passives, and Voice Variation This section addresses structures used to shift focus, emphasize outcomes over agents, and achieve a more formal, objective tone often required in academic and scientific writing. The Grammar of Nominalization: Extensive coverage of converting verbs and adjectives into nouns (e.g., investigate $
ightarrow$ investigation; possible $
ightarrow$ possibility) and the resultant syntactic impact, including the use of dummy subjects (It is argued that...). Complex Passive Constructions: Analyzing the uses of the passive voice beyond the simple be + V3 form, including the use of get-passives for informal contexts, and the causative passive (have/get something done). Cleft Sentences and Pseudo-Clefts: Detailed instruction on using It was X that/who... and What X did was... constructions for foregrounding specific information within a sentence, essential for controlled emphasis. Part 5: Reference, Substitution, and Cohesion Achieving high-level fluency requires minimizing repetition and ensuring seamless textual flow. Advanced Anaphora and Reference: Thorough exploration of pronouns (they, it, one, ones) and demonstratives (this, that, these, those) when referring back to entire clauses or abstract concepts, rather than just single nouns. Lexical Cohesion through Substitution: Mastery of substitute phrases like so do I, neither is he, the same is true for, and in the same way to maintain coherence without unnecessary restatement. Ellipsis for Conciseness: How to omit redundant words or phrases (e.g., in comparative structures or when following auxiliaries) where the meaning is clearly recoverable from context, leading to more concise and natural speech/writing. Part 6: Determiners, Prepositions, and Complex Phrasal Structures This final section polishes the fine details of word choice that often separate proficient users from advanced speakers. Subtle Determiner Distinctions: Precise usage guides for quantifiers like few/a few, little/a little, many/much, and the restrictive/non-restrictive use of all, most, neither. Idiomatic Prepositional Patterns: Systematic compilation of frequently misused or complex prepositional phrases, often tied to specific verbs, adjectives, or abstract nouns (e.g., account for, dependent on, indifferent to). Adverbial Placement and Modification: Mastering the placement of adverbs (especially frequency and manner adverbs) relative to verbs, auxiliaries, and conjunctions to avoid ambiguity and achieve desired rhetorical effect. Pedagogical Structure Each of the 100 units follows a clear, self-contained structure: 1. Presentation (Left Page): Clear, concise explanations of the grammatical rule, supplemented by context-rich examples drawn from authentic advanced English sources (academic papers, high-level journalism, literary excerpts). Key exceptions and common errors are highlighted visually. 2. Practice (Right Page): A variety of controlled and semi-controlled exercises designed to force active application of the newly learned structure. Tasks include gap-filling, sentence transformation, error correction, rewriting sentences in a different register, and context-specific sentence completion. This design ensures that the learner moves immediately from understanding the abstract rule to implementing it functionally. The comprehensive Answer Key at the back provides full explanations for the transformation and correction tasks, making the book highly suitable for self-study while also serving as an invaluable classroom resource for focused grammar instruction. Target Audience This practice file is indispensable for: University students preparing for postgraduate study in English-speaking environments. Professionals requiring high-level command of English for international business, law, or diplomacy. Learners preparing for proficiency exams such as Cambridge C2 Proficiency (CPE) or the highest bands of IELTS/TOEFL. Any independent learner dedicated to achieving near-native fluency through rigorous grammatical precision.