English C1 · Advanced
Handle nuance, emphasis and formal register: advanced word order, the subjunctive, hedging, and the structures that make writing sound polished and cohesive.
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Practise with GrammarMama →- Advanced conditional expressions (provided that, supposing, on condition that, but for) Coming soon
- Elliptical conditional adjuncts (if so, if not, if necessary, if anything) Coming soon
- Inversion in conditionals (had I known, were I to, should you) Coming soon
- Fronting and marked word order Coming soon
- Nominalisation (formal & academic style) Coming soon
- Complex noun phrases: pre- and post-modification Coming soon
- The subjunctive & mandative that-clauses Coming soon
- Semi-modals for arrangement, obligation and likelihood (be to, be due to, be bound to) Coming soon
- Hedging and cautious claims (tend to, appear to, arguably, to some extent) Coming soon
- Discourse markers for cohesion (nevertheless, having said that) Coming soon
- Advanced relative clauses (of which / of whom, prepositional) Coming soon
- Nominal and fused relative clauses (what, whatever, whoever) Coming soon
- Advanced ellipsis & substitution (do so, so / not, gapping) Coming soon
- Advanced & generic article use Coming soon
- Formal future in the past (was to, was due to, was destined to) Coming soon
- Perfect, passive and continuous non-finite forms Coming soon
- Raising & extraposition (it is likely that…, he seems to have…) Coming soon
- Advanced comparison (the more… the more; all the better) Coming soon
- Scope and position of focusing adverbs (only, even, just, not even) Coming soon
- Advanced prepositional complementation (object to doing, accuse someone of doing) Coming soon
- Absolute and supplementive participle clauses (weather permitting; the work completed) Coming soon