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owe: no progressive form 225.2 politeness: use of past tense 239.3
with two objects 356 politics (singular) 304
own 233 poor: the poor 11.3
no progressive form 225.2 Portuguese 212
possess: no progressive form 225.2
paint + object + adjective 355.1 possessive ’s 250, 251
pardon, excuse me and sorry 121 possessives: with determiners 252
participle and gerund 180.1 my, mine etc 253
participle clauses 236 in time expressions 227.12
participles 234-236 position of adjectives 10
partly: position 14.5 position of adverbs: details 14
pass with two objects 356 general 13
passive 237-238 practically: position 14.5
infinitive 175.4 practise ...-ing 180.3
structures 237 prefer: + infinitive 176.2, 176.3
verb forms 238 + -ing or infinitive 182.11
past continuous (progressive) tense 242 no progressive form 225.2
past participle 234 prepare + infinitive 176.2
past perfect: with after 15.3 preposition + -ing 180.5
with if 165 prepositional verbs 259
with ifonly 167 prepositions 254-259
with wish 367 . and adverb particles 258
with would rather 370 at the end of clauses 257
past perfect tenses 245 expressions without prepositions 256
past progressive tense 242 see also above, across, at etc
past simple tense 241 present and present perfect 244.5
past tense: with conditional present participles 234
meaning 343.1 present perfect: with after 15.3
with present or future meaning 239 difference between simple and
past tenses and past time 240-246 progressive 244.4
Pay with two objects 356 and present 244.5
pay for 254 progressive 244
+ object + infinitive 132.4 simple 243
perfect infinitive 175.3 present perfect tenses 243, 244, 246
perfect tenses with first time etc 246 present progressive: future use 135
perhaps: position 14.4 present progressive and simple present
people (plural) 303.2 tenses: differences 262.4
-person (chairperson etc) 141.3 present progressive (continuous)
personal pronouns 247 tense 262
persuade + object + infinitive 176.3 present simple tense 261
phone numbers 227.4 present tense with future meaning 343.1
phrasal verbs 259 present tenses 260-262
play: with can 81 presently and at present 299.12
play and act 248 pretend + infinitive 176.2
play andgame 248 pretty, fairly, quite and rather 124
please 249 prevent... from 254
no progressive form 225.2 price and prize 299.13
pleased: + infinitive 176.4 principal and principle 299.14
prepositions 254 prize and price 299.13
plenty 205.3 probably: position 14.4
plural and singular 301-307 Professor 211.3
pm 342.2 progress (uncountable) 92.3
police (plural) 303.2 progressive forms: verbs not used in
Polish 212 progressive forms 225
polite requests 286 progressive infinitive 175.2
polite to 254 progressive tenses with always 263