- level 3- 1. Use and omission of definite and indefinite articles. 2. Compound nouns. 3. Countable and mass nouns. 4. The adjective: position of adjectives within the noun phrase. Adjectives used as nouns (the poor, the rich, etc.) 5. Adjectives ending in -ing or -ed. 6. Pronouns: reflexive (oneself, myself) and reciprocal (each other, one another) pronouns. 7. Position of adverbs within the sentence: adverbs of frequency, manner, place and time. 8. Indefinite pronouns: other/another; one, ones, the one, the ones. 9. Relative pronouns: that, who, which, where, whose. Defining and non-defining relative clauses. 10. Prepositions. 11. Some-, any-, no- and every- compounds. 12. All, both, every, each. 13. Either, neither. Either... or.… Neither... nor... 14. Quantifiers: much, many, a lot. Little, few, a few, a little. Several, a number of, a small/large amount of. Quite. 15. Comparative and superlative expressions. 16. Partitive expressions (a piece of cake, a tube of toothpaste). 17. So and such. 18. Too and enough. 19. Gerund and infinitive and their different uses. 20. Verbal tenses and all their aspects: simple, perfect and continuous. 21. Verbs followed by gerund or to + infinitive. 22. -ing after certain verbs (like, love, prefer, hate, suggest, etc.) 23. Modals of prohibition, deduction, probability, obligation, permission, request, advice.Followed by simple infinitive or perfect infinitive: must, have to, can, be able to, should, will, would, ought to, may, might. Had better/would rather. 24. Phrasal verbs. 25. Look, look like, seem. 26. Want/Tell somebody to do something. 27. Make, let, allow to + infinitive. 28. Causative have. 29. Suffixes and prefixes of frequent use. 30. Word order: affirmative, interrogative and negative sentences. 31. Tag questions. 32. Conditional sentences: all types. 33. Time, purpose, concession and result clauses. 34. Passive voice in all tenses. 35. Reported speech: statements, questions, commands and requests in different tenses and using reporting verbs (suggest, warn, advise, etc.) 36. Used to + infinitive (not ..... any more/any longer) 37. Connectors: and, also, or, but, because, so, therefore, first, then, finally; first of all, moreover, on the other hand, however, etc. |