Grammar · B1-B2

Intermediate grammar

145Units

Work through the units in order, or go straight to the one you need. Each unit explains one point, gives examples you can listen to, and ends with exercises you can check or reveal.

Start with unit 1: Present continuous (I am doing)

Present and past

  1. 1 Present continuous (I am doing)
  2. 2 Present simple (I do)
  3. 3 Present continuous and present simple 1 (I am doing and I do)
  4. 4 Present continuous and present simple 2 (I am doing and I do)
  5. 5 Past simple (I did)
  6. 6 Past continuous (I was doing)

Present perfect and past

  1. 7 Present perfect 1 (I have done)
  2. 8 Present perfect 2 (I have done)
  3. 9 Present perfect continuous (I have been doing)
  4. 10 Present perfect continuous and simple (I have been doing and I have done) (being written)
  5. 11 how long have you (been) ... ? (being written)
  6. 12 for and since when ... ? and how long ... ? (being written)
  7. 13 Present perfect and past 1 (I have done and I did) (being written)
  8. 14 Present perfect and past 2 (I have done and I did)
  9. 15 Past perfect (I had done)
  10. 16 Past perfect continuous (I had been doing)
  11. 17 have and have got
  12. 18 used to (do)

Future

  1. 19 Present tenses (I am doing / I do) for the future
  2. 20 I'm going to (do)
  3. 21 will and shall 1
  4. 22 will and shall 2 (being written)
  5. 23 I will and I'm going to (being written)
  6. 24 will be doing and will have done (being written)
  7. 25 when I do and when I've done if and when (being written)

Modals

  1. 26 can, could and (be) able to
  2. 27 could (do) and could have (done)
  3. 28 must and can't
  4. 29 may and might 1
  5. 30 may and might 2
  6. 31 have to and must
  7. 32 must mustn't needn't
  8. 33 should 1
  9. 34 should 2 (being written)
  10. 35 I'd better ... it's time ... (being written)
  11. 36 would (being written)
  12. 37 can/could/would you ... ? etc. (Requests, offers, permission and invitations) (being written)

if and wish

  1. 38 if I do ... and if I did ...
  2. 39 if I knew ... I wish I knew ...
  3. 40 if I had known ... I wish I had known ...
  4. 41 wish

Passive

  1. 42 Passive 1 (is done / was done)
  2. 43 Passive 2 (be done / been done / being done)
  3. 44 Passive 3 (being written)
  4. 45 it is said that ... he is said to ... he is supposed to ... (being written)
  5. 46 have something done (being written)

Reported speech

  1. 47 Reported speech 1 (he said that ...) (being written)
  2. 48 Reported speech 2 (being written)

Questions and auxiliary verbs

  1. 49 Questions 1 (being written)
  2. 50 Questions 2 (do you know where ... ? / he asked me where ...)
  3. 51 Auxiliary verbs (have/do/can etc.) I think so / I hope so etc.
  4. 52 Question tags (do you? isn't it? etc.)

-ing and to ...

  1. 53 Verb + -ing (enjoy doing / stop doing etc.)
  2. 54 Verb + to ... (decide to ... / forget to ... etc.)
  3. 55 Verb (+ object) + to ... (I want you to ...)
  4. 56 Verb + -ing or to ... 1 (remember, regret etc.)
  5. 57 Verb + -ing or to ... 2 (try, need, help)
  6. 58 Verb + -ing or to ... 3 (like / would like etc.) (being written)
  7. 59 prefer and would rather (being written)
  8. 60 Preposition (in/for/about etc.) + -ing (being written)
  9. 61 be/get used to ... (I'm used to ...) (being written)
  10. 62 Verb + preposition + -ing (succeed in -ing / insist on -ing etc.)
  11. 63 there's no point in -ing, it's worth -ing etc.
  12. 64 to ... , for ... and so that ...
  13. 65 Adjective + to ...
  14. 66 to ... (afraid to do) and preposition + -ing (afraid of -ing)
  15. 67 see somebody do and see somebody doing
  16. 68 -ing clauses (He hurt his knee playing football.)

Articles and nouns

  1. 69 Countable and uncountable 1
  2. 70 Countable and uncountable 2
  3. 71 Countable nouns with a/an and some (being written)
  4. 72 a/an and the (being written)
  5. 73 the 1 (being written)
  6. 74 the 2 (school / the school etc.)
  7. 75 the 3 (children / the children)
  8. 76 the 4 (the giraffe / the telephone / the old etc.)
  9. 77 Names with and without the 1

  1. 78 Names with and without the 2
  2. 79 Singular and plural
  3. 80 Noun + noun (a bus driver / a headache) (being written)
  4. 81 -'s (your sister's name) and of ... (the name of the book) (being written)

Pronouns and determiners

  1. 82 myself/yourself/themselves etc. (being written)
  2. 83 a friend of mine my own house on my own / by myself (being written)
  3. 84 there ... and it ... (being written)
  4. 85 some and any (being written)
  5. 86 no/none/any nothing/nobody etc.
  6. 87 much, many, little, few, a lot, plenty
  7. 88 all / all of most / most of no / none of etc.
  8. 89 both / both of neither / neither of either / either of
  9. 90 all every whole
  10. 91 each and every

Relative clauses

  1. 92 Relative clauses 1: clauses with who/that/which
  2. 93 Relative clauses 2: clauses with and without who/that/which (being written)
  3. 94 Relative clauses 3: whose/whom/where (being written)
  4. 95 Relative clauses 4: extra information clauses (1) (being written)
  5. 96 Relative clauses 5: extra information clauses (2) (being written)
  6. 97 -ing and -ed clauses (the woman talking to Tom, the boy injured in the accident) (being written)

Adjectives and adverbs

  1. 98 Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed (boring/bored etc.)
  2. 99 Adjectives: a nice new house, you look tired
  3. 100 Adjectives and adverbs 1 (quick/quickly)
  4. 101 Adjectives and adverbs 2 (well, fast, late, hard/hardly)
  5. 102 so and such
  6. 103 enough and too
  7. 104 quite, pretty, rather and fairly
  8. 105 Comparative 1 (cheaper, more expensive etc.) (being written)
  9. 106 Comparative 2 (much better / any better etc.) (being written)
  10. 107 Comparative 3 (as ... as / than) (being written)
  11. 108 Superlative (the longest, the most enjoyable etc.) (being written)
  12. 109 Word order 1: verb + object; place and time (being written)
  13. 110 Word order 2: adverbs with the verb
  14. 111 still any more yet already
  15. 112 even

Conjunctions and prepositions

  1. 113 in spite of / despite; although / though / even though
  2. 114 in case
  3. 115 unless as long as provided
  4. 116 as (as I walked ... / as I was ... etc.) (being written)
  5. 117 like and as (being written)
  6. 118 like as if (being written)
  7. 119 during for while (being written)
  8. 120 by and until by the time ... (being written)

Prepositions

  1. 121 at/on/in (time) (being written)
  2. 122 on time and in time at the end and in the end
  3. 123 in/at/on (position) 1
  4. 124 in/at/on (position) 2
  5. 125 in/at/on (position) 3
  6. 126 to, at, in and into
  7. 127 in/on/at (other uses)
  8. 128 by
  9. 129 Noun + preposition (reason for, cause of etc.)
  10. 130 Adjective + preposition 1
  11. 131 Adjective + preposition 2
  12. 132 Verb + preposition 1 to and at (being written)
  13. 133 Verb + preposition 2 about/for/of/after (being written)
  14. 134 Verb + preposition 3 about and of
  15. 135 Verb + preposition 4 of/for/from/on
  16. 136 Verb + preposition 5 in/into/with/to/on

Phrasal verbs

  1. 137 Phrasal verbs 1 Introduction
  2. 138 Phrasal verbs 2 in/out
  3. 139 Phrasal verbs 3 out
  4. 140 Phrasal verbs 4 on/off (1)
  5. 141 Phrasal verbs 5 on/off (2) (being written)
  6. 142 Phrasal verbs 6 up/down (being written)
  7. 143 Phrasal verbs 7 up (1) (being written)
  8. 144 Phrasal verbs 8 up (2) (being written)
  9. 145 Phrasal verbs 9 away/back (being written)