English C2 · Proficiency
Command the fine detail of English: stylistic inversion, information flow, subtle modality, and the idiomatic frames that mark near-native control.
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Practise with GrammarMama →- End-weight and given-new information flow Coming soon
- Spoken dislocation: heads and tails (That guy, he… / It's lovely, that place) Coming soon
- Advanced reference and cohesion (this / that, one / ones, former / latter, generic one / you / they) Coming soon
- Parallelism in complex coordination Coming soon
- Stylistic & literary inversion (So great was…, Down came…) Coming soon
- Tense and aspect shifts for stance and narrative perspective (I had hoped, would keep insisting, historical present) Coming soon
- Evidentiality and inference (allegedly, reportedly, would seem to, cannot but) Coming soon
- Emphatic scalar quantification (no fewer than, nothing short of, sheer, utter, the very) Coming soon
- Formulaic clause frames (suffice it to say, far be it from me, so be it) Coming soon
- Concessive clause patterns (much as, adjective / adverb + though / as, for all + noun / -ing) Coming soon
- Negation, scope and polarity (not all, I don't think…, any / ever / at all) Coming soon
- Notional and proximity agreement in complex subjects Coming soon
- Supplementive apposition and parenthetical noun phrases Coming soon
- Formal negative-purpose clauses (lest, for fear that, for fear of + -ing) Coming soon
- Rare and idiomatic determiners and quantifiers (many a, the odd, no end of) Coming soon
- Parenthetical comment clauses and stance markers (mind you, if you will, as it were) Coming soon
- Grammatical register choices: formal, neutral and informal alternatives Coming soon