Grammar Topics
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Participle Clauses (Sentence Shortening)
Master participle clauses (-ing, -ed, having + past participle) to shorten sentences smoothly, as in 'Walking home, I saw an accident.'
The Unreal Past (Beyond 'Wish' and 'If')
Learn unreal past structures — it's time, I'd rather, as if/as though, would sooner, had better — for nuanced English.
Advanced Passive (Infinitive, Gerund, and Reporting Structures)
Master Advanced Passive forms—infinitives, gerunds, reporting structures—like to be done and believed to have been.
Free Relatives (whoever, whatever, wherever)
Master free relatives — whoever, whatever, whenever, wherever, however — to build flexible noun or adverb phrases.
Advanced Reported Speech Structures
Master Advanced Reported Speech Structures for mixed time references and formal hedging in English.
What-Clauses
Master what-clauses as subject or complement to emphasize ideas, as in 'What surprised me was her reaction.'
Fronting
Learn Fronting to move key elements to the front of a sentence for emphasis, like This I did not expect.
Advanced Noun Phrases
Advanced noun phrases: master pre- and post-modification, nominalization, and dense noun stacking for academic, professional English.
Advanced Inversion
Master Advanced Inversion in conditionals, after so/such, and in comparatives for high-level writing.
Ellipsis and Substitution
Learn Ellipsis and Substitution to avoid repetition and write natural English, like I can swim and so can she.
Nominalization
Master Nominalization to turn verbs and adjectives into nouns for formal, academic English writing.