English Grammar

Definite, indefinite and zero articles.

Countable and uncountable nouns, plurals, possession and noun forms.

Personal, possessive, reflexive, demonstrative, relative and indefinite pronouns.

Words that specify quantity, reference and distribution, such as some, any, much, many, few and little.

Formation, position, comparison and adjective patterns.

Types, position, comparison and degree of adverbs.

Verb forms, auxiliary verbs, linking verbs, stative verbs and verb patterns.

Present, past and future tenses, including perfect and continuous forms.

Can, could, may, might, must, should, will, would and other modal constructions.

Formation and use of passive constructions.

Zero, first, second, third and mixed conditionals, wishes and hypothetical situations.

Infinitive and -ing forms after verbs, adjectives and prepositions.

Reported statements, questions, commands and reporting verbs.

Defining, non-defining and reduced relative clauses.

Word order, clauses, inversion, emphasis and sentence patterns.

Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions and linking expressions.

Prepositions of time, place, movement and common prepositional patterns.

Question formation, question words, tag questions and embedded questions.

Negative forms, negative words and negative inversion.

Numbers, fractions, dates, time expressions and measurements.

Punctuation marks, capitalization and writing conventions.

The language of Shakespeare, the King James Bible, and Christopher Marlowe