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Grammar and
Vocabulary for
®
the TOEIC Test
with answers

Self-study grammar
and vocabulary
reference and practice

JOLENE GEAR and ROBERT GEAR

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Contents
Introduction 6
Overview of the TOEIC 7
Unit Vocabulary Focus Grammar Focus
1 Applying for a job Word forms 8
Noun, verb, adjective, and adverb forms
2 Business documents Present tenses 16
Present simple, present continuous, imperatives, state verbs
3 Air travel Past tenses 24
Past simple, past continuous, used to and be used to
4 Shopping Present perfect 32
Present perfect simple and continuous, for and since
5 Business trips Future 40
Present continuous; present simple; going to; will
Practice Test 1 Listening, Reading 48
6 Customer Service Questions 54
Question forms; yes / no questions and short answers;
wh- questions; tag questions
7 Property Embedded questions 62
Wh- questions; yes / no questions; questions with an infinitive
8 Banking Reported Speech 69
Reporting statements and questions; reporting verbs
9 Commuting Adjectives and Adverbs 78
Describing things; adding information about manner, place,
time, frequency, and intensity
10 Advertising Comparing 86
Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs;
expressions of equality / inequality (as … as, not as … as,
etc.); other ways of comparing
Practice Test 2 Listening, Writing 94
11 Company structure Modals 1 100
Ability and possibility
12 Employment Contracts Modals 2 108
Obligation and necessity; orders and advice
13 Dining out Modals 3 116
Permission; requests; offers; suggestions
14 Safety at work Prepositions 1 123
Prepositions of time; prepositions of place;
prepositions of movement
15 Meetings Prepositions 2 132
Verb + preposition; noun + preposition;
adjective + preposition
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Practice Test 3 Listening, Reading, Speaking 139

16 Import / export Referring to nouns 146
Demonstratives; one / ones; some / any; quantifiers;
each / every; either / neither
17 Using the phone Pronouns 154
Personal and possessive, reflexives, impersonal pronouns;
it / there
18 Office supplies Nouns 162
Countable and uncountable nouns; articles
19 Presentations Linking words 1 168
And, but, or; so, such, as, such as; too and enough:
still, yet, already
20 Investments Passives 176
Passive voice; having something done
Practice Test 4 Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing 184
21 Innovations Relative clauses 191
Relative clauses; relative pronouns;
relative pronouns with prepositions
22 Insurance Conditional sentences 199
Zero, first, and second conditionals
23 Trade shows Linking words 2 207
Giving reasons; giving results; making contrasts; adding
information; showing sequences; showing attitude
24 Marketing Verb + verb patterns 214
Verb + to infinitive; verb + -ing; infinitive without to
25 Employee perks More verb patterns and phrasal verbs 222
and benefits Adjectives + to infinitive or -ing;
nouns + preposition and -ing; phrasal verbs
Practice Test 5 Reading, Writing 230

Answer key 236

Recording scripts 256
Appendix 1: Common phrasal verbs 271
Appendix 2: Common irregular verbs 272

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