Advanced Grammar Exercises.
1. Advanced Tense Usage
- Present Perfect Continuous vs Present Perfect
- Narrative tenses (Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect)
- Past Perfect (affirmative, negative, questions)
- Future Continuous
- Future Perfect
2. Conditionals – Advanced
- Second Conditional (unreal present)
- Third Conditional (unreal past)
- Mixed Conditionals
- Alternatives to if (unless, provided, as long as)
3. Passive Voice – Advanced
- Passive with modals
- Passive with reporting verbs (It is said that…)
- Get passive
4. Reported Speech – Advanced
- Reported questions
- Reported commands & requests
- Reporting verbs (advise, suggest, warn, promise)
5. Modals – Advanced Meaning
- Modals of deduction (must have, might have, can’t have)
- Past modals (should have, could have)
- Degrees of certainty
6. Relative Clauses – Advanced
- Non-defining relative clauses
- Whose / Where / When
- Reduced relative clauses (The man standing there…)
7. Complex Sentence Structures
- Noun clauses (What he said was…)
- Cleft sentences (It is… that…)
- Emphasis with inversion (Never have I…)
8. Gerunds & Infinitives – Advanced
- Perfect infinitive (to have done)
- Verb patterns with objects
- Formal structures
9. Linking Devices – Paragraph Level (IELTS Writing)
- Contrast: However, Nevertheless, On the other hand
- Cause & effect: Therefore, As a result
- Addition: Moreover, Furthermore
- Example: For instance, Such as
10. Prepositions – Advanced Use
- Prepositions after adjectives & verbs
- Dependent prepositions
- Prepositions in formal writing
11. Articles – Advanced
- Abstract nouns & articles
- Articles with institutions
- Zero article in academic English
12. Style & Register
- Formal vs informal grammar
- Hedging language (It seems that…, It is likely that…)
- Avoiding repetition & redundancy
