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Vocabulary
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20 grammar exercises, 20 questions each.
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A1
Beginner
Past simple
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- Regular -ed forms, irregulars, and questions and negatives with did.
Verb to be & present simple
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- am / is / are, do / does: the foundation everything else sits on.
Articles a, an, the
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- First mention, second mention, and the times you use no article.
A2
Elementary
Present simple vs continuous
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- Routines and facts against what is happening right now.
Irregular verbs
Match
- Match each base form to its past simple and past participle.
Modal verbs
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- can, must, should, have to: obligation, advice and deduction.
will vs going to
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- Decisions, predictions and plans: choose the future that fits.
Comparatives & superlatives
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- -er, -est, more, most, plus the irregulars that break the pattern.
Countable or uncountable?
Sort
- Sort the nouns, and stop saying informations and advices.
Prepositions in, on, at
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- Time and place: the pair of rules behind most preposition errors.
Word & adjective order
Word order
- Rebuild the sentence, including the order adjectives have to go in.
B1
Intermediate
Present perfect vs past simple
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- Finished time or not? The single most common intermediate slip.
Phrasal verbs
Match
- Match everyday phrasal verbs to what they actually mean.
Present perfect
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- for, since, just, yet, already, ever: the words that pick the tense.
Gerunds vs infinitives
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- Which verbs take -ing, which take to-, and which change meaning.
Conditionals
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- Zero, first, second and third: match the halves of each if-sentence.
Question tags
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- …isn't it? …doesn't she? Add the tag the sentence is asking for.
Relative clauses
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- who, which, that, whose, and when you can drop the pronoun.
B2
Upper intermediate
Passive voice
Rewrite
- Rewrite active sentences in the passive, keeping the tense.
Reported speech
Rewrite
- Backshift the tense, move the pronouns, drop the quotation marks.