Grammar Practice

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Verb tenses Tense review Past simple and past participles (fall / fell / fallen) Past simple vs. past continuous (tried vs. was trying) Present perfect simple vs. present perfect continuous (have collected vs. have been collecting) Future Ways of talking about the future (is to be / will be / is going to be / is being) Modality Modal verb review Ability (can / could / be able / be capable / enable, etc.) Hypothesis (1) (would have needed) Hypothesis (2) (I wish I was) Necessity (need to be / should be / be required to be) Obligation, prohibition and permission (must / have to / be allowed / be required / be permitted, etc.) Probability (1) (may / might / could / must / should / could well be / may just be) Probability (2) (be likely / may / might / could / be certain / chances of / probability of) Functions and notions Appearance and impression (look as if / sound as though) Cause and result (lead to / due to / result in) Cause and result: non-finite clauses (having tried various methods) Characteristic behaviour (tend to / be in the habit of, etc.) Coercion (make him do it) Comparing (1) (harder than / not as easy as) Comparing (2) (more vs. much) Comparing (3) (by far the healthier / isn't quite as good as) Comparing (4) (the bigger, the better) Criticising (forever mucking about / always getting into trouble, etc.) Deductions (apparently / it seems / it appears, etc.) Frustrated plans (was meant to be) Habitual behaviour (will arrive home late) Purpose (to / in order to / so that) Similarity (like / as) Surprise (is shocking to think) Trends (rise steadily) Reporting Reported thoughts (she thought she had travelled) Reporting verbs (complain / report / admit / deny / explain) Reported clauses (scientists warn that) Verbs Delexical verbs (have an argument / make a decision) Past participles (a found photo) Past participle clauses (set in London) Present participle clauses (musicians performing the Quartet) Past and present participles (best-selling / written in the '60s / writing songs) -ing form (1) (laughing is good) -ing form (2) (the man wearing the sweater) Phrasal verbs: relationships (get on with) Uses of had (had / had to / had left, etc.) Adverbs Adverb position (always used to go) Adverbs (well / fast / hard / hardly, etc.) Yet (direct yet humorous) Prepositions Preposition review (knocked to the ground in a mad dash) Pronouns Indefinite pronouns (anyone / no one / everyone, etc.) Syntax Adjective order (tall old man) Conditionals (if I had the money) Indirect questions (didn't know where) Inversion (not only does he) Negation (1) (there was no reply) Negation (2) (no / not / nor / none) Negation (3) (we hardly know him) Packing information into sentences (ancestral women of this particular tribe) Passive review (was stolen) Reciprocal verbs (debate with each other) Verb patterns: verb + noun + noun (name him Andrew) Verb patterns: verb + noun + infinitive with to (help him to speak) Verb patterns: bother (it bothers me to see) Verb patterns: verb + -ing (recommend keeping) Verb patterns: verb + noun + infinitive without to (make me laugh) Verb patterns: verb + with + noun + about + noun (agree with Joe about politics) Cohesion Ellipsis (quite a few are writers) Substitution (another one writes comedies) Clause substitution (I don't think so) Emphasis (they do have experience) Linking events (when / finally / after that / followed by, etc.) Nominalisation (quality is not sacrificed / there is no sacrifice of quality)