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93 grammar pieces in 17 topics, from to be to inversion and hedging. Every piece is listed here: find the grammar point, then pick the level.

The verb to be and first steps 2 pieces · am / is / are, instructions and suggestions

Instructions and Suggestions: Imperatives and Let’sinstructions, rules and suggestionsA1🔒The Verb “to be”am / is / areA1🔒

Present tenses 3 pieces · Habits, facts and what is happening now

How Often? Adverbs of Frequencyalways, usually, sometimes, neverA1🔒Present Simplehabits and factsA1🔒Present Continuousnow and around nowA2🔒

Past tenses 6 pieces · Finished actions, actions in progress and the earlier past

Past Continuous: What Was Happening?actions in progress in the pastA2🔒Past Simplefinished actions in the pastA2🔒Past Simple: Negatives and Questionsdidn’t and didA2🔒used to: Past Habitshabits and states in the pastA2🔒Past Perfect: The Earlier Pastsomething that happened before another past eventB1🔒used to, be used to and get used topast habits and getting accustomedB1🔒

Present perfect 3 pieces · Experience, recent news and connection to now

Past Simple or Present Perfect?finished time or connection to nowB1🔒Present Perfectexperience and recent newsB1🔒Present Perfect Continuousactions that started in the past and continue or have just stoppedB1🔒

Future forms 2 pieces · Plans, predictions and planning ahead

Future: going to and willplans and predictionsA2🔒Future Perfect and Future Continuousplanning aheadB2🔒

Modal verbs 8 pieces · Ability, advice, obligation, deduction and preference

can and can’tabilityA1🔒have to, don’t have to and mustn’tobligation and rulesA2🔒Modal Verbs: can, must, shouldability, rules and adviceA2🔒should and shouldn’tgiving adviceA2🔒must, might and can’t: Guessingdeduction and possibilityB1🔒could, was able to and managed toability in the pastB2🔒must have, might have and can’t haveguessing about the pastB2🔒would rather, had better and it’s timepreferences and adviceB2🔒

Questions 4 pieces · Question words, tags and indirect questions

Question Words: who, what, where…asking for informationA1🔒How much? How many?questions about quantityA2🔒Indirect Questionspolite questionsB1🔒Question Tagschecking and agreeingB1🔒

Nouns, articles and quantity 8 pieces · a / an / the, countable and uncountable, some / any, much / many

Articles: a, an, thea / an / the / no articleA1🔒Plural Nounsone and more than oneA1🔒this, that, these and thosepointing to thingsA1🔒Countable & Uncountable: much, many, some, anyquantityA2🔒some, any and noquantity wordsA2🔒too and enoughmore or less than you needA2🔒much, many, a few, a little and enoughquantity wordsB1🔒so, such, too and enoughintensifyingB1🔒

Pronouns and possessives 3 pieces · Object pronouns, possessive forms, have got

Object Pronouns: me, you, him, her…pronouns after the verbA1🔒Possessive ’s: Tom’s booksaying who owns somethingA1🔒Possessives and have gotmy, your, ’s and have / has gotA1🔒

Comparing things 3 pieces · Comparatives, superlatives and as … as

Comparatives & Superlativesbigger / the biggestA2🔒Superlatives: the biggest, the most beautifulthe top of a groupA2🔒as … as and other comparisonsequal and similar thingsB1🔒

Adverbs, prepositions and places 4 pieces · How things are done, when and where things are

There is / There arewhat is in a placeA1🔒There is / There are + Prepositionsplaces and where things areA1🔒Adverbs of Mannerhow things are doneA2🔒at, on, in: Prepositions of Timewhen things happenA2🔒

Verb patterns and phrasal verbs 4 pieces · What follows a verb: -ing or to, wanting and liking, phrasal verbs

like, love and hate + -ingtalking about likes and dislikesA1🔒want, would like and hope + towishes and plansA2🔒Common Phrasal Verbsverb + particleB1🔒Verb + -ing or to + Verbwhat comes after a verbB1🔒

Linking ideas and clauses 4 pieces · Relative clauses, time clauses, contrast, reasons and results

because, so and butreasons, results and contrastA2🔒when, while, before and afterlinking events in timeA2🔒although, however and despiteshowing contrastB1🔒Relative Clauses: who, which, that, wherejoining ideas and defining thingsB1🔒

Conditionals and wishes 6 pieces · Real and unreal situations, regrets and wishes

First Conditionalreal future possibilitiesA2🔒First & Second Conditionalsreal and imaginary situationsB1🔒Second Conditionalunreal or unlikely situationsB1🔒Third Conditionalimagining a different pastB1🔒Mixed Conditionalspast causes and present resultsB2🔒wish and if onlyregrets and unreal wishesB2🔒

Passive and reported speech 6 pieces · Passives, causatives, reported statements and questions, reporting verbs

Reported Questionstelling someone else’s questionB1🔒Reported Speechtelling someone what was saidB1🔒The Passive Voicewhen the action matters more than who did itB1🔒have something done / get something donearranging for someone else to do a jobB2🔒It is said that… / He is said to…reporting general opinionsB2🔒Reporting Verbs: suggest, admit, deny and morereporting what people sayB2🔒

Advanced structures 15 pieces · Inversion, cleft sentences, nominalisation, hedging and other C1–C2 grammar

Advanced Relative Clausesadding information elegantlyB2🔒Cleft SentencesemphasisB2🔒Emphatic do and other ways to stressadding emphasisB2🔒Future in the Pasttalking about plans from a past viewpointB2🔒however, whatever and no matterit makes no differenceB2🔒Inversion After Negative Adverbialsformal and emphatic word orderB2🔒Participle Clausesshorter, more fluent sentencesB2🔒Advanced Passives and CausativesC1–C2🔒Cleft Sentences and EmphasisC1–C2🔒Discourse Markers, Concession and HedgingC1–C2🔒Hypothetical Meaning and the SubjunctiveC1–C2🔒Inversion for EmphasisC1–C2✓ SampleMixed and Advanced ConditionalsC1–C2🔒Nominalisation and Formal StyleC1–C2🔒Participle ClausesC1–C2🔒

Grammar exam tasks 12 pieces · Open cloze, multiple-choice cloze and key word transformations

Key Word Transformations: Set 1B2✓ SampleKey Word Transformations: Set 2B2🔒Key Word Transformations: Set 3B2🔒Multiple-Choice Cloze: A Weekend AwayB2🔒Multiple-Choice Cloze: The Local LibraryB2🔒Multiple-Choice Cloze: Why We Collect ThingsB2🔒Open Cloze: A Town FestivalB2🔒Open Cloze: Learning to CookB2🔒Open Cloze: A City by BicycleC1–C2🔒Open Cloze: Learning an InstrumentC1–C2🔒Open Cloze: The Quiet RevolutionC1–C2🔒Open Cloze: The Saturday MarketC1–C2🔒