B2 Grammar lessons and exercises

have - auxiliary or main verb

Clauses of contrast, purpose, reason and result

Generic pronouns - common-gender pronouns

Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns

There and it - preparatory subjects

Narrative tenses, used to, would

get - different meanings

Discourse markers – linking words

Speculation and deduction – modal verbs and expressions

Inversion with negative adverbials – adding emphasis

Distancing – expressions and passive of reporting verbs

Wish, rather, if only, it's time – unreal uses of past tenses

Verb + object + infinitive/gerund – verb patterns

unless, even if, provided, as long as, etc. – other expressions in conditionals

All conditionals – mixed conditionals, alternatives to if, inversion

Mixed conditionals

Modal verbs – permission, obligation, prohibition, necessity

Verbs of the senses

Gerunds and infinitives – complex forms

Future forms – expressing future time

Other ways to express future – be about to, be due to, etc.

Future in the past

Ellipsis and substitution

Compound nouns and possessive forms

Cleft sentences – adding emphasis

Relative clauses – defining and non-defining

Participle clauses

Table of grammar contents – B2