B1–B2: Grammar in Context

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I can talk about past habits and past situations that have changed. I can describe things that are familiar now or becoming familiar.

14

I can add essential information about people, things and places. I can choose relative words and omit an object relative pronoun when possible.

15

I can add extra information about people and things with non-defining relative clauses. I can use who, which and whose with commas, without that or an omitted relative pronoun.

16

I can use -ing after avoid, suggest and consider. I can use to + verb after plan, hope and promise, and recognise a few meaning changes.

17

I can form present and past simple passives. I can use modal passives to describe rules and possibilities.

18

I can report what someone said in another conversation. I can choose say or tell and make suitable pronoun and time changes.

19

I can report yes/no and wh-questions using statement word order. I can report requests with ask or tell + object + to.

20

I can choose modal verbs for rules, permission and deductions. I can connect ideas using habits, relative clauses, verb patterns, passives and reporting.

21

I can describe an activity in progress at a particular future time. I can form future continuous questions, negatives and neutral enquiries about plans.

22

I can describe something completed before a future deadline. I can distinguish a completed result from duration up to a future point.

23

I can imagine a different condition and result in the completed past. I can distinguish a hypothetical past result from the events that actually happened.

24

I can connect an unreal past condition with a present result. I can connect an unreal present characteristic with a past result while keeping time clear.