B1 Grammar Lessons & Exercises

Intermediate level: past tenses, passive voice, reported speech, conditionals, relative clauses and more.

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Past Continuous

I was working, they were waiting: actions in progress in the past.

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Past Perfect

I had finished before she arrived: the earlier of two past actions.

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Present Perfect Continuous

I've been working all day. How long an ongoing action has lasted.

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Used to

I used to play football: past habits and states that no longer exist.

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Would (past habits)

We would visit every summer: repeated past actions and routines.

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Passive Voice: Present

The letter is written. Present simple passive and when to use it.

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Passive Voice: Past

The car was stolen: past simple passive and by + agent.

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Reported Speech: Statements

She said she was tired. Reporting what someone said.

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Reported Speech: Questions

He asked where I lived: reporting questions and commands.

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Modals: Possibility

It might rain, she could be right: expressing possibility.

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Modals: Deduction

He must be tired, she can't be serious. Drawing logical conclusions.

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Zero & First Conditional

If water reaches 100°C, it boils. If it rains, I'll stay in. Facts and real future situations.

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Second Conditional

If I had more time, I would travel: hypothetical and unreal situations.

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All Conditionals (0 / 1 / 2)

Mixed practice: choose between zero, first and second conditionals.

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Relative Clauses: Defining

The man who called, the book that I read: essential information.

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Relative Clauses: Non-defining

My sister, who lives in Paris, is a teacher. Extra information you could remove.

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Too & Enough

too hot to eat, not enough time: expressing limits and sufficiency.

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So & Such

so tired, such a good film: intensifying adjectives and nouns.

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Comparison: as...as

as tall as, not as fast as: comparing things of equal or unequal degree.

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Wish + Past Simple

I wish I knew, I wish I had more money: regrets about the present.

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Phrasal Verbs

give up, look after, turn on: the most common phrasal verbs.

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