DIAGNOSTIC QUIZ

Basic differences between the present simple and present continuous. State Verbs

• Review of the Past simple and Past continuous tenses; used to and would; be/get used to + -ing or noun

• Review of the Present perfect simple and past simple; present perfect simple and continuous

• Review of the Past perfect simple and continuous

Comparative and superlative adjectives; position; order;
adjectives ending in -ing and -ed

Adverb forms; adverbs and adjectives easily confused;
comparative and superlative adverbs; modifiers; adverb position

yes /no questions; short answers; question words; question tags;
agreeing

• Review of future tenses 1: Present tenses for future; will; future continuous

• Review of future tenses 2: going to; future in the past; present tenses after time
conjunctions; future perfect; to be about to

• Countable and uncountable nouns; a(n), the and no article;
special uses of articles

• Use of modals; rules and obligation; necessity

Possessives; reflexive pronouns and own; each other and one another; there and it; someone, etc.; all, most, some, no and none; each and every; both, neither and either

Permission; requests; offers; suggestions; orders; advice

Modals of Ability; deduction: certainty and possibility; expectations

Tense changes in reported speech; reporting in the same tense; verbs for reporting; verbs for reporting with to infinitive; reporting questions; reference to time, place, etc.

Passive verbs; to have/get something done; it is said that …

Zero, first, second and third conditionals; mixed conditionals

Verb + to infinitive; verb + infinitive without to; verb + -ing; verb + that clause; adjective + to infinitive

unless; in case; provided/providing that and as/so long as; I wish and if only; it’s time; would rather; otherwise and or else

Prepositions of place and time

Prepositions which follow verbs and adjectives; prepositions to express who, how and why; expressions with prepositions

Defining and non-defining relative clauses; relative pronouns and prepositions

because, as and since; so and therefore; in order to, to + infinitive and so (that); so and such; enough and too

in spite of and despite; but, although and though; even though and even if; participle clauses; before and after + -ing; when, while and since + -ing