Grammar by CEFR Adjectives before nouns
Possessive adjectives
Requests – can / could / will / would
Imagined situations – would
Level
Permission – can / can’t
Adverbs:
A1 Adverbs of time & indefinite frequency
Adverbs of frequency Suggestion – could / let’s / shall
Verbs & tenses: Adverbs of degree – very / really / too General truths & facts
Present simple of ‘be’ Other parts of speech: Nonfinite verbs:
There is/are Parts of speech Want / need + to-infinitive
Present simple Coordinating conjunctions Nouns:
Present continuous Indefinite article – a / an Countable & uncountable nouns
Past simple of ‘be’ Definite article – the Someone / anyone / no one / everyone
Past simple for regular verbs Prepositions of time Something / anything / nothing / everything
Past simple for irregular verbs Prepositions of place Adjectives:
Clauses & questions:
Questions – closed
A2 Adjective order
Comparatives & superlatives
Questions – open Verbs & tenses: Comparatives for equality
Because clauses Past continuous Expressing similarity – same / like / alike
Modal verbs: Future – will vs going to Irregular adjectives
Would like Future – present tenses for the future Adverbs:
Ability – can / can’t / could / couldn’t Present perfect Adverb placement
Nonfinite verbs: Imperative Adverbs of degree & intensity
Like / hate / love + gerund Stative verbs Adverbs of manner
Nouns: Clauses & questions: Comparative adverbs
Subject & object pronouns Conditionals – zero Other parts of speech:
Demonstrative pronouns – this / that / these / Conditionals – 1st No article
those Adverb clauses of time – when / while Some / any / none / every / all
Possessive case – ‘s Questions – subject Quantifiers
Irregular plural nouns
How much / many + noun
Modal verbs:
Ability – be able to
B1
Adjectives: Advice – should Verbs & tenses:
Demonstrative adjectives – this / that / these / Possibility – might / may / could Subject-verb agreement
those Obligation & prohibition – must / have to / Past habits
Adjectives as complements of ‘be’ don’t have to
Used to / be used to / get used to Nonfinite verbs:
Present perfect continuous B2 To-infinitives as adverbs & adjectives
Past perfect Verbs & tenses: Other parts of speech:
Past perfect continuous Future time expressions with ‘be’ Emphasis – do / did
Passive voice – simple tenses
Phrasal verbs
Future in the past C1+
Future continuous
Clauses & questions: Future perfect Verbs & tenses:
Relative clauses Future perfect continuous Subjunctive mood
Adverb clauses of time Passive voice – other tenses & modals Imperative – 3rd person (let) / don’t you /
Adverb clauses of reason / purpose / contrast Passive voice – gerunds & infinitives pointing
Conditionals – 2nd Causative verbs Clauses & questions:
Conditionals – 3rd Verbs of the senses Cleft sentences
Reported speech – say & tell Clauses & questions: Conditionals – imperatives
Noun clauses – ‘that’ vs ‘WH’ clauses Relative clauses & questions – preposition Conditionals – reduced & inverted
Questions – tag placement Inversion – structure
Questions – indirect / embedded Relative clauses with whose Inversion – negative adverbials
Modal verbs: Relative clauses with relative adverbs Inversion – restrictive adverbials
Permission & requests – might / may Relative clauses as sentence modifiers Relative clauses – some of which / many of
Possibility & deduction (in the present) Relative clauses – reduced which
Suggestion expressions Conditionals – ‘if’ alternatives Adverb clauses for focus – whatever /
Nonfinite verbs: Conditionals – ‘would’ alternatives wherever / however
Gerunds & infinitives as subjects Conditionals – mixed Nonfinite clauses (advanced)
Gerunds & infinitives as objects Participle clauses Passive voice clauses for sentence focus
Gerunds & infinitives as objects (different Reported speech – questions / requests / Wide range of reporting verbs – academic
meanings) commands use
Gerunds & infinitives for purpose Questions – past for politeness Emphasis expressions
Nouns: Questions – negative (including Fronting for emphasis
Reflexive & reciprocal pronouns uncontracted) Modal verbs:
Adjectives: Modal verbs: Dare
Adjectives ending in ‘-ing’ and ‘-ed’ Certainty expressions Expressions to give opinions
Adverbs: Obligation expressions Criticism & disapproval
Conjunctive adverbs Possibility & deduction (in the past) Adjectives:
Adverbs of time for perfect tenses Regret & unreality Comparatives & superlatives with intensifiers
Other parts of speech: Ideal situations Superlatives with postmodifiers
Dependent prepositions Expectations – should / might / may + be + Compound adjectives
continuous Adjectives after nouns
Adverbs:
Adverbs with prepositional phrases
Extreme adverbs to modify non-gradable
adjectives
Other parts of speech:
Conjunctions – and yet / in that / either…or /
neither…nor
Discourse markers
Distancing
Hedging
Ellipsis & substitution
The lists above are based partly on my own
experience, and partly on other resources including
the English Grammar Profile, which is based on
extensive research using the Cambridge Learner
Corpus and is part of the English Profile
programme, which aims to provide evidence about
language use that helps to produce better language
teaching materials.
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