"Using clear examples and easy-to-follow exercises, this new, full-colour edition of the best-selling 'Essential grammar in use' makes learning easy, covering all the areas of grammar that an elementary-level student needs."--Back cover.

Previous edition: 1997. Includes index. User's guide by Helen Naylor with Raymond Murphy.

Present -- Past -- Present perfect -- Passive -- Verb forms -- Future -- Modals, imperative, etc. -- 'There' and 'it' -- Auxiliary verbs -- Questions -- Reported speech -- '-ing' and 'to ... ' -- 'Go', 'get', 'do', 'make' and 'have' -- Pronouns and possessives -- 'A' and 'the' -- Determiners and pronouns -- Adjectives and adverbs -- Word order -- Conjunctions and clauses -- Prepositions -- Phrasal verbs -- Appendices -- Additional exercises -- Study guide.