Basics. Conditional Conjunctions: Supposing, Provided That, and Even If
Are you ready to move beyond basic "if" clauses? Test your advanced grammar skills by mastering nuanced conditional phrases like supposing, provided that, on condition that, even if, and but for.
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Basics. Ellipsis in Coordination
Why repeat yourself when you can drop words to create elegant, concise sentences? Test your advanced grammar skills on gapping, verb phrase (VP) ellipsis, and right node raising across 10 challenging questions.
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Basics. Advanced Fronting and Inversion
Do you know why we say Never have I seen... instead of I have never seen...? Learn how to add dramatic flair to your English by mastering negative adverbial inversion, locative fronting, and inverted conditionals.
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Basics. Advanced Inverted Conditionals: Should, Were, and Had
Do you know how to drop the "if" to make your English sound more formal and dramatic? Master the art of inversion by testing your knowledge of first conditionals with should, second conditionals with were, third conditionals with had, and complex mixed conditionals.
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Basics. Mastering It-Cleft Sentences: Agreement and Adverbials
Do you know whether to write "It is I who is" or "It is I who am"? Test your advanced syntax skills by mastering pronoun and verb agreement, emphasizing prepositional phrases, and structuring complex adverbial and negative time clauses.
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Basics. Marginal Modals: Dare, Need, and Ought To
Are you confused about when to use "needn't have done" instead of "didn't need to do"? Master the trickiest rules of English verbs by testing yourself on marginal modals, past regrets with ought to, and the modal forms of dare and need.
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Basics. Substitution with So, Not, and Do
Do you know when to say "I suspect not" instead of "I don't suspect so"? Master advanced clause replacement by practicing negative expectations, adjective substitution, verb phrase fronting, and the tricky rules of stative verbs with "do".
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Basics. The Were-Subjunctive in Conditionals
Do you know when to use "Were I to go" instead of "If I was going"? Master the art of formal hypotheticals by testing yourself on subject-verb inversion, the "were to" future conditional, and tricky mixed conditionals.
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Basics. Wh-Cleft Sentences: Standard, Reversed, and Action Focus
Want to add a dramatic, native-level flair to your English sentences? Test your advanced grammar skills by mastering standard wh-clefts, reversed wh-clefts, action-focused cleft structures, and pseudo-clefts.
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Basics. Conditional Inversion: Had, Were, and Should
Ready to drop the if and sound like a highly advanced English speaker? Test your mastery of formal grammar by practicing third conditional inversion with had, second conditional inversion with were, and first conditional inversion with should.
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Basics. Inversion After Negative Adverbs
Want to add a dramatic, advanced flair to your English sentences? Master the rules of grammatical inversion by practicing with negative adverbs like not only, under no circumstances, little, hardly, and no sooner.
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Basics. Mastering Mixed Conditionals and Inversions
What happens when a past mistake alters your present reality, or a permanent trait changes a past outcome? Test your advanced grammar skills on past actions with present results, present states with past consequences, and formal conditional inversions.
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Basics. Negative Questions: Surprise, Invitations, and Opinions
Did you know that negative questions are rarely used just to ask for facts? Test your ability to use them correctly for expressing surprise, confirming information, and making polite invitations across 10 interactive questions.
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Inversion
Inversion is the change of a standard word order from subject-verb to verb-subject. If there is more than one verb, only the first auxiliary verb swaps places with the subject. Inversion is usually used in questions, but there are a number of other scenarios in which it applies. It is often used to make the speech more emphatic.
Inversion is not used a lot in everyday colloquial speech, it sounds a bit bookish and will remind people of Shakespeare’s times.
Hardly it makes knowledge of the rules of inversion less important for advanced students, does it?
Question Forms: Indirect, Subject, Object, and Tags
Do you know why we say "Who stole the cheese?" instead of "Who did steal the cheese?" Test your grammar skills by practicing subject vs. object questions, polite indirect questions, tricky question tags, and negative questions across 13 engaging scenarios.
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Transitive vs. Intransitive: High-Impact Verbs
Master transitive vs. intransitive verbs and avoid common errors like discuss about or enter into. Stop adding unnecessary prepositions with high-impact verbs like discuss, reach, enter, and contact!
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