Grammar Box Advanced

Introduction

Grammar Box Advanced is an online course, consisting of 5 modules of English, and providing approximately 30 hours of study for students.

Course aims

To give students at Advanced, CEFR C1 level practice in advanced grammar structures. The course is ideal for students looking to perfect their grammatical accuracy in both written and spoken communication.

Students can also combine this course with our other skills-focused courses:

  • Vocabulary Booster
  • Listen Up
  • Reading Skills
  • Pronunciation Portal

Unit summary

Module 1

  • Future continuous
  • Future perfect simple
  • Future perfect continuous
  • Future time expressions
  • Present perfect simple vs continuous

Module 2

  • Conditionals (zero, first, second, third, mixed)
  • Wish and if only
  • Inversion in conditionals
  • Modals of deduction in the past
  • Past perfect continuous

Module 3

  • Reported speech
  • Reporting verbs with gerunds and infinitives
  • Relative clauses with prepositions
  • Ellipsis and substitution
  • Nominal clauses

Module 4

  • Advanced passive voice
  • Causative structures with modals
  • Articles and determiners (advanced)
  • Gerunds vs infinitives (advanced)
  • Advanced collocations

Module 5

  • Adverbial clauses (concessive, reason, result)
  • Comparatives and superlatives (advanced)
  • Advanced prepositions
  • Complex sentence structures
  • Nominalisation in academic writing

Follow-up

Students completing the Grammar Box Advanced course could:

  • Move on to the next level course: Grammar Box Advanced Plus
  • Choose skills-specific courses: Vocabulary Booster, Listen Up, Reading Skills, or Pronunciation Portal
  • Study general English courses like Complete, Advanced Plus Power, or Focus on C2 Proficiency
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