Side Richard, Wellman Guy. Grammar and Vocabulary for Cambridge Advanced and Proficiency

Pearson Education Limited, 2000. — 288 p. — ISBN 0 582 41963 8.
OCR.This book is for any advanced student of English but it is particularly relevant to people studying for the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) or the Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) exams.Each Unit has between two and five Grammar Sections which deal with aspects of a particular area of grammar: tenses, passives, modals, subjunctives, conditionals, adjectives and adverbs, nouns and articles, determiners and pronouns, clauses, reported speech, emphasis, verb complementation. These Sections contain explanations and descriptions with many of example sentences,and short exercises so that you can check whether you have understood the main grammar points.As for vocabulary, the book focuses on areas of vocabulary that are useful in a wide range of situations, e.g. agreeing and disagreeing, frequency, problems and solutions, starting and ending, etc. Words that combine frequently with others are a particular focus.