until 4.140, 4.142, 8.20, 8.24
unwillingness 5.194, 5.197–5.199, 5.239–5.241
us 1.104, 1.122
used to 5.252–5.255, 7.57
—————— V ——————
verbs
•auxiliary verbs 5.12–5.13, 5.16, 5.53–5.56, 8.167, 10.61–10.71, R80–R87
•compound verbs 3.117–3.125
•delexical verbs 3.32–3.45
•ditransitive verbs (verbs with two objects) 3.7, 3.73–3.82, 9.20
•ergative verbs 3.59–3.67
•intransitive verbs 3.2–3.13, 8.165
•linking verbs 3.126–3.181
•performative verbs (verbs used to perform an action) 7.64–7.66
•phrasal verbs 3.83–3.116, 6.111, 9.17
•reciprocal verbs 3.5, 3.68–3.70
•reflexive verbs 3.26–3.31
•reporting verbs 3.24–3.25, 7.5–7.15, 7.33–7.34
•stative verbs 4.69, R120–R122
•transitive verbs 3.3, 3.14–3.45, 3.123
list of verbs of position 3.12
verbs that can be used both with and without an object 3.46
list of verbs that can be transitive or intransitive depending on the meaning 3.48
verbs that do not always need an object 3.49–3.50
list of transitive verbs that can be used without an object 3.50
verbs that can take an object or a prepositional phrase 3.55–3.57
verbs of movement 3.58
verbs that involve people affecting each other with the same action 3.68
verbs that can have two objects 3.73–3.82
verbs that usually have both a direct object and an indirect object 3.82
verbs with object complements 3.128
verbs that relate to causing something to happen 3.162
verbs that relate to giving someone a job or role 3.164
verbs of opinion 3.165–3.168
using two main verbs together 3.182–3.211
verbs followed by an -ing participle 3.190–3.191
verbs followed by a to-infinitive 3.192–3.194
verbs with an infinitive without to 3.205
verbs followed by for and a to-infinitive 3.209
list of verbs used to specify position 6.78
verbs of thinking and knowing 7.9
verbs of learning and perceiving 7.10–7.11
verbs that describe the way in which something is said 7.19–7.21
verbs used with that-clauses 7.30
verbs usually used in the passive 9.18
list of verbs rarely used in the passive 9.19
list of verbs often used in split sentences about needs and wants 9.30
list of verbs that can have impersonal it as object 9.35
list of verbs used with impersonal it to describe the weather 9.36
verb forms R50–R88
pronunciation R55, R57, R59
formation of participles R59–R75
list of verbs with irregular past forms and -ed participles R72
forms of auxiliaries R80–R88
formation of tenses R89–R119
formation of infinitives and participles R124–R135
very 1.248, 2.39, 2.140, 2.165, 2.167
vivid narrative 4.65
vocatives 9.95–9.99
with reporting verbs 7.23
—————— W ——————
want 3.191, 3.198, 3.212, 5.234
we 1.102, 1.122
weather 9.36
what
as interrogative pronoun 1.151–1.152
in wh-questions 5.21–5.25, 5.33
what about and what of in questions 5.45–5.46
in nominal relative clauses 8.112–8.116
in split sentences 9.28–9.30
in exclamations 9.92–9.93
whatever 5.34
in wh-questions 5.34
in conditional clauses 8.42
in nominal relative clauses 8.112, 8.115
whatsoever 5.89
wh-clauses 8.126–8.128
when
in wh-questions 5.21–5.25, 5.29
in time clauses 8.10–8.17, 8.24
in relative clauses 8.104–8.105
whenever 8.13, 8.24
where
in wh-questions 5.21–5.25, 5.29
with adjectives such as necessary and possible 8.24
in place clauses 8.73–8.77
in relative clauses 8.104–8.106, 8.114
wherever
in wh-questions 5.34
with adjectives such as necessary and possible 8.24
in conditional clauses 8.42
in place clauses 8.76
whether
in reported speech 7.35–7.36, 7.48
in conditional clauses 8.40–8.41
which
as relative pronoun 1.148
as interrogative pronoun 1.151–1.152
in wh-questions 5.21–5.25, 5.28
of which 8.102
in relative clauses 8.110–8.111
whichever 8.42, 8.115
while
in time clauses 8.11, 8.24
in concessive clauses 8.66, 8.71
whilst
in time clauses 8.11
in concessive clauses 8.66, 8.71
who and whom
as relative pronouns 1.147, 8.84, 8.90, 8.93
as interrogative pronouns 1.151–1.153
in wh-questions 5.21–5.26
of whom 8.102
whoever
in wh-questions 5.34
in conditional clauses 8.42
in nominal relative clauses 8.115
whose
as relative pronoun 1.150, 8.101–8.102
as interrogative pronoun 1.151–1.153
in wh-questions 5.21–5.25, 5.27
wh-questions 5.21–5.34, 5.46, 5.256, 9.94, 10.77
reporting wh-questions 7.37–7.38
wh-words 5.22–5.34
•how 5.31
•what 5.33
•when and where 5.29
•which 5.28
•why 5.30
•whatever, wherever, whoever 5.34
•who and whom 5.26
•whose 5.27
as subject 5.23
as object or adverb 5.24
used to report wh-questions 7.37–7.38
why 4.26
in suggestions 5.46
in defining clauses 8.107
will
talking about the future 4.53, 5.108, R104
expressing general truths 4.54
expressing certainty 4.55–4.56, 5.129
expressing likelihood 5.121
will not and won’t for forbidding 5.147
giving instructions and appeals for help 5.156
giving firm instructions 5.166
making offers and invitations 5.172
expressing intentions 5.189–5.190
will not and won’t for refusal 5.195
in reported speech 7.55
wishes 5.200–5.203, 5.205–5.206
with 2.284
after adjectives 2.48
in reported speech 7.79
in the passive 9.15–9.16
within 4.130, 4.131
won’t 5.16, 5.19, 5.59, 5.102, 5.147, 5.189, 5.195