11 chapters · Lesson · Practice · Game · Printables
Tense slip · agreement · confusable words · register
agentless passive and responsibility · was considered / elected / deemed · ergative verbs · passive idioms
otherwise · without / but for · given · if + will / would · if + happen to · if so / if any / if anything
the register continuum · spoken grammar · you / one / we · register clashes in emails and letters
Nominalisation · hedging · impersonal · avoid
adjective + though / as · try as I might · much as · as / than + inversion · gone are the days · fronting
given before new · end-weight and it-extraposition · end-focus · topic chaining
will for assumption · would for typical behaviour · putative should · might have for reproach · dare / need · modal adverbs
anaphora and cataphora · shell nouns · the former / the latter / respectively · lexical chains · it / this / that
historic present · past for politeness · continuous for attitude · perfect vs past in news
perfect participle clauses · absolute clauses · verbless clauses · lest / for fear that