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Grammar and Structures List for the Pre-Intermediate Level Examination.
Click on the GP to find explanations and exercises.
| Grammar and Structures |
What are they used for? |
Some examples |
| VERBS |
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GP 25 >>>
The passive voice |
Talking about a process.Omitting the active subject |
The best computer games are made in Japan.
The new church was built last year. |
| GP 26 >>> The second conditional - if / past tense + would /non finite verb |
Talking about hypothetical situationsmusing |
If I worked harder, I would get higher marks.
If I won some money, I would buy a new car. |
| GP 5b >>> Present perfect continuous |
Expressing unfinished or recently completed actions |
How long have you been living in London? |
| GP 27 >>> The gerund after certain verbs |
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I enjoy learning English.
I hate eating spaghetti. |
| GP 28 >>> Phrasal Verbs |
Prepositions as used in some very common phrasal verbs and prepositional phrases. |
You must put on a hat if you go out in the sun.I am very fond of my pets. |
| GP 13 >>> ADVERBS |
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| For and since More adverbs of frequency, manner, time or degree |
Expressing time periods from a point in the past, relating them to the present Describing how often, when, how, and how much people do something |
I have lived in this house for five years.
I haven’t swum in the sea since last summer.
I’m still here.
He’s already finished.
That bird rarely visits Britain. We hardly knew him. |
| GP 29 >>> CONCURRENCE |
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| Neither do I/so do I |
Expressing concurrence with a positive or a negative statement Expressing concurrence within a positive or negative statement |
I don’t like playing computer games. Neither do I.
I like eating chocolate.So do I.
I don’t like cabbage and neither does my sister.
Jane loves chocolate and so do her friends. |
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