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Grammar

B2 Upper-intermediate grammar

Perfect and continuous tenses, unreal conditionals and wishes, phrasal verbs, narrative tenses and speculation.

Present perfect simple and continuous

Results or duration? Choose between have done and have been doing.

23 questions

Future perfect

Say what will be finished by a future time with will have + past participle.

20 questions

Future perfect continuous

Show how long an action will have been in progress at a future time with will have been + -ing.

20 questions

Adjectives as nouns

Use adjectives like the rich, the poor and the young to talk about groups of people and ideas.

20 questions

Unreal conditionals

Second, third and mixed conditionals for imaginary situations in the present and the past.

20 questions

Wish and if only

Express wishes and regrets about the present, the past and the future.

20 questions

Used to, be used to and get used to

Past habits, being accustomed to something, and the process of becoming accustomed.

20 questions

Verbs of the senses

See, hear, taste, smell and feel: stative and dynamic uses, and figurative meanings.

20 questions

Phrasal verbs

How phrasal verbs are built, transitive and intransitive types, and separable and inseparable verbs.

20 questions

Narrative tenses

Tell stories with the past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous.

20 questions

Direct and indirect questions

Make questions more polite with Could you tell me..., I wonder... and Do you know...

20 questions

Past perfect continuous

Show how long something had been happening before another past moment with had been + -ing.

20 questions

Different meanings of get

Obtain, become, arrive, understand, cause: the many meanings of the verb get.

20 questions

Modal verbs of speculation and deduction

Say how sure you are with must, might, may, could and can't, about the present and the past.

20 questions

The passive

The passive in every tense, plus infinitive and gerund passives.

20 questions