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Tenses and time
Present Perfect
Present perfect simple and continuous, plus the big one: past simple versus present perfect.
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Narrative Tenses
Past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous for telling a story.
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Future Forms
Will, going to, the present continuous and the present simple for talking about the future.
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Used to, Be used to, Get used to
Past habits, what feels normal now, and adapting to something new.
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Conditionals 0, 1, 2 and 3
Facts, real possibilities, imaginary situations and past regrets, set out side by side.
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Mixed Conditionals
When the past affects the present and the present explains the past.
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Sentence Formation
English word order: subject, verb, object, then adverbs, time and place.
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Question Formation
Word order, auxiliaries, subject questions, indirect questions and question tags.
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Relative Clauses
Who, which, that, whose, where and when, and exactly where the commas go.
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Reported Speech
Passing on what people said, asked and told you to do, with say, tell and reporting verbs.
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The Passive Voice
When the action matters more than who did it, in every tense.
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Gerunds and Infinitives
Which verbs take -ing, which take to, and the ones that take both.
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Articles: a, an, the
When to use a, an and the, and when to use no article at all.
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Prepositions
At, on, in and the rest, plus the dependent prepositions you need at work.
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Comparatives and Superlatives
Comparing products, prices, people and results clearly and correctly.
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Gradable Adjectives
Very good or absolutely brilliant: the right adverb for each adjective.
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