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Master English Grammar – Advanced Level

English Language skills for IELTS, CAE, and CPE. Hundreds of exercises for TV shows included. Essays checked
Instructor:
Dave Skypelessons
2,011 students enrolled
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Gain an advanced knowledge of complex English sentences
Improve your understanding of typical mistakes that must be avoided
Identify and use different tenses in passive and active forms
Identify and use different conditionals in a variety of complex forms
Identify and use reporting verbs in a variety of complex forms
Identify and use subjunctive and inversion in a variety of complex forms
Identify and use gerunds, bare infinitives, to plus infinitives, and participles in a variety of complex forms
Spontaneously use articles and quantifiers in the correct way
Identify and use defining and non-defining relative clauses, as well as nominative and adverbial relative clauses.
Identify and use gradable and ungradable adjectives with the correct adverbs
Identify and use dependant prepositions correctly in combination with verbs, nouns, and adjectives.

This course includes the following resources:

 

  • Downloadable lectures on all essential grammar topics (British teacher, 20 years’ TEFL experience)
  • Advanced-level lectures on tenses, gerunds, modals, subjunctive, inversion, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners, reporting verbs, fronting, cleft sentences, adverb collocations, gradable adjectives, comparisons, and many more
  • 22 ebooks (1 more than 500 pages!) with exercises (vocab and grammar) for popular TV shows (including Sherlock, Harry Potter, True Detective, The Office, Westworld, Line of Duty, House of Cards, and many more)
  • Please write a 300-word essay (based on IELTS/CAE/CPE, but any form of writing accepted) and I will correct it and offer advice
  • Ask me questions on the topics that are really illogical, of which there are many, and I will be delighted to try to disentangle you from the grammar web
  • Learn how to avoid the most common mistakes
  • Lifetime membership (more lessons and resources added every month)

By the end of the course, your knowledge of English grammar will be deep enough to take on advanced exams, to watch US and UK TV, and to speak in a more complex way. Though accessible to intermediate students, the course delves into the details on many themes, for I have a passion for advanced grammar. I do not speak to my students slowly, as though they were pre-intermediate learners, so if that’s the kind of course you are looking for, this one is not for you. Nonetheless, I do respond quickly to inquisitive students, so please join the fun if you are ready!

Introduction to the course

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How to use this course

Present and Past tenses in simple and continuous

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Present Simple V Present Continuous and STATE VERBS
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Present Simple V Present Continuous

Please choose the correct tense for each of the following sentences:

3
Past Simple V Past Continuous
4
Past Simple V Past Continuous

Please choose the correct tense for each of the following sentences:

5
Tricky Irregular Verbs
6
Tricky Irregular Verbs

Please answer the following the questions:

The Present Tense in all Aspects

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Present Perfect V Past Simple
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Present Perfect V Past Simple

Please choose the correct answer:

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DO, IS DOING, HAS DONE, HAS BEEN DOING
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HAS DONE v HAS BEEN DOING
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DO, IS DOING, HAS DONE, HAS BEEN DOING

Please choose the correct tense for each of the following sentences:

6
All the present tenses V past simple
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All the present tenses V past simple

Please choose the correct tense for each of the following sentences:

The Past Tense in all Aspects

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DID, WAS DOING, HAD DONE, HAD BEEN DOING
2
DID, WAS DOING, HAD DONE, HAD BEEN DOING

Please choose the correct answer:

3
The past and present tenses in all aspects.
4
The past and present tenses in all aspects.

Please choose the correct tense for each of the following sentences:

The Future Tense in all Aspects

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WILL DO, GOING TO DO, AM DOING, DO
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WILL DO, GOING TO DO, AM DOING, DO

Please choose the most natural tense in the following questions:

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WILL DO, WILL BE DOING, WILL HAVE DONE, WILL HAVE BEEN DOING
4
WILL DO, WILL BE DOING, WILL HAVE DONE, WILL HAVE BEEN DOING

Please choose the correct tense for each of the following sentences:

5
The signal words for all the aspects
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All the tenses

Please choose the correct tense in the following questions:

Questions

1
How to Form Questions in English
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How to Form Questions in English

Please choose the correct answer:

3
Subject and Object Questions (with and without auxiliary verbs)
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Subject / Object questions

Please choose the correct answer:

5
Reported and Indirect Questions
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Reported and Indirect Questions

Please choose the correct option:

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Auxiliary Verbs
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Auxiliary Verbs

Please choose the correct answer:

Reported Speech

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Reported Speech and the Sequence of Tense
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Reported Speech and the Sequence of Tense

Please choose the answer which is written in reported speech:

Active and Passive forms

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Passive and Active Forms
2
Passive V Active
3
Causative
4
Causative and similar forms

Please choose the correct answer:

5
The Passive in complex forms
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The Passive in complex forms

Please choose the correct answer:

7
Ergative Verbs
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Ergative Verbs

Please choose the correct answer:

Modal Verbs

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Modal Verbs of Speculation and Deduction
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Modal Verbs of Speculation and Deduction

Choose the answer with the modal verb in the correct form:

3
Modal Verbs of Obligation, Necessity, Criticism and Advice
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Modal Verbs of Obligation, Necessity, Criticism and Advice

Choose the answer with the modal verb in the correct form:

5
Needn't have done V didn't need to
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Should (various functions)

Conditionals

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CONDITIONALS - Zero, First, Second, Third
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Conditionals

Please choose the answer with the verb in the correct form:

3
CONDITIONALS - Mixed and Pseudo Conditionals
4
Mixed and Pseudo Conditionals
5
What is a False Conditional?

Subjunctive and Inversion

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Subjunctive
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Subjunctive

Please choose the answers with the subjunctive form (when possible):

3
Subjunctive and Conjunctions
4
Inversion
5
Inversion

Please choose the correct answer

Gerunds and Infinitives in all Aspects

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Gerunds and Infinitives (simple forms)
2
Gerunds and Infinitives (simple forms)

Please choose the correct answer:

3
Gerunds and Infinitives (complex forms)
4
Gerunds and Infinitives (complex forms)

Please choose the correct answer:

5
Complex 'to + infinitive' under the microscope
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Noun + (to + infinitive)
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Noun + (to + infinitive)

Please choose the correct answer:

8
Participles
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Participles

Reporting Verbs

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Reporting Verbs
2
Reporting Verbs

Please choose the correct answer:

3
More Reporting Verbs
4
More Reporting Verbs

Relative Clauses

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Relative Clauses
2
Relative Clauses

Adjectives and Comparison

1
Gradable and Ungradable Adjectives
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Gradable and Ungradable Adjectives

Please choose the correct answer:

3
Comparisons
4
Comparisons

Please choose the correct answer:

Determiners and Articles

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Determiners and Countability
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Determiners and Countability

Please choose the correct answer:

3
Articles - Lesson 1 (A summary)
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Articles - Lesson 1

Please choose the correct answer:

5
Determiners
6
Determiners

Please choose the correct answer:

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Articles - Lesson 2 (Definite or Indefinite?)
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