Grammatical structures – activities and examples here: http://samsmithenglish.com/tests/general/
Verb tenses
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Modal Verbs
Verbs, adjectives and adverbs, which aren’t modals, but are used for expressing probability (e.g. had better, perhaps etc…)
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Passives
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Relative clauses
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Reported/indirect speech
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Other grammatical structures: Inversions (learn what these are used for, the common phrases that are used with them and how to construct sentences using them) Conditional sentences (creating all types of conditionals (zero, first, second, third and mixed) using modal verbs in them and the words/phrases that can replace ‘if’ in them (e.g. provided that etc…)) Comparative sentences (using both adjectives and adverbs) Superlative sentences (using both adjectives and adverbs) Reflexive pronouns (what the reflexive pronouns are and with which verbs they are used) Sentences with wish (both for the present and past) Countable and uncountable nouns Prepositions (the prepositions used with specific nouns, verbs, adjectives and those used to talk about time, frequency and place) Gerunds and infinitives after verbs (whether a verb is followed by a gerund or an infinitive) Gerunds as nouns (why they are used and where in a sentence they are used) Adverbs (improve your knowledge of adverbs used to start a sentence (e.g. eventually) or modify a verb or adjective) Would (the different uses of the verb ‘would’) Will (the different uses of the verb ‘will’) Do (using ‘do’, ‘does’, ‘did’ for emphasis in sentences) Any, some, no and every (what they mean, when they are used and the words they are used to form (e.g. anyone)) Negative forms (learn the negatives forms (no, not, don’t etc…) used with nouns, verbs and adjectives) |