Advanced English Grammar & CAE Practice

Explains past simple usage for completed and consecutive actions, past habits, and past states, including would and used to. Contrasts with past continuous for actions in progress and framework interruptions.

Explore the differences between past simple and present perfect simple using examples to learn when time references matter and actions relate to the present.

Learn to distinguish the past perfect simple from the past perfect continuous and apply their uses to sequence past actions and durations, with time expressions like since and for.

Learn to express the future using be going to and will, present tenses for schedules, time clauses, and phrases like just about to, due to, poised to.

Master future tenses by examining future continuous, future simple, future perfect, and future in the past, including uses for actions in progress, duration, arrangements, and clear contrasts.

Explore deeper aspects of the passive voice, including transitive and intransitive verbs, direct and indirect objects, and varying passive forms with get, by, and impersonal constructions.

Learn the causative have/get constructions to arrange for others to do tasks, using have something done or get something done in various tenses with examples like haircuts and repairs.

Explore the use of modal verbs in English, including can, could, be able to, may, might, must, and be allowed to, covering ability, possibility, permission, past forms, and common exceptions.

Explore modal verbs and their uses for advice, requests, obligation, necessity, prohibition, and past and future meanings with examples of should, must, may, might, and dare.

Learn how the gerund operates after certain verbs (verb plus ing form), after verbs with objects (verb plus object plus ing), and with softer verbs plus prepositions and expressions.

Examine how verbs take either the infinitive or the gerund, changing meaning in examples like forget, remember, go on, regret, and stop, with rules and exceptions.