CAE Grammar Preparation - Key Word Transformations

Practice drill 1 covers verb tenses and how to transform them in keyword transformations. Learn present perfect, present perfect continuous, and past perfect continuous with clear examples.

Practice drill 2 covers conditionals and the unreal past with transformations like provided that, if I had known, would have offered, would have complained, if only, and high time constructions.

Explore modal verbs through practical drills, using had better for advice, perfect and passive forms for past criticism, and phrases like may well have been listening and could have predicted.

Master passive voice and causative constructions in key word transformations by transforming active sentences, applying passive forms, and using have something done.

Master inversion in key word transformations by applying negative adverbials like under no circumstances, rarely, no sooner, little did I know, and never, to create correct sentence order.

Practice drill 6 covers idioms and keyword transformations with six examples, including turn over a new leaf, at the drop of a hat, and be under the weather, for vocabulary.

Practice drill seven covers forming comparisons with comparative constructions. Use examples like 'more difficult than' and 'not as cool as' and 'the bigger the city, the higher the crime rate'.

Master phrasal verbs and keyword transformations with examples like come up with, put off, boiled down to, and carry on; explore full infinitive vs gerund after went on.

Practice fixed expressions and collocations for CAE key word transformations, including no point in, taken aback, why don't you, have something in common, and have one's heart set on something.

Practice drill 1 for CAE key word transformations, mastering no sooner had..., incapable of, and give someone a hand. Explore phrases like I wish..., and barely enough to get by.

Practice key word transformations through comparative constructions, decline expressions, present perfect and present perfect continuous forms, and phrases with in order to, avoid, and despite with gerunds.

Practice drill three reinforces CAE key word transformations with practical sentence rewrites. It covers impression, under the impression, grateful if, combination, trouble remembering, and the condition that.