Grammar course for Upper-Intermediate and Advanced-level students

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This course is intended to boost the general linguistic competence of the Upper-Intermediate and Advanced-level student across the four skills-reading, writing, listening, speaking. The classes and the tutorials are tailored with focus on traditional grammar.

The method of teaching is the communicative approach. The teacher is never the sage on the stage. We always try to develop self-confidence, critical thinking, and cultural awareness in our students. Thus, the aim of the course is not just to equip learners with grammar, but also to enculturate and uplift learners. An independent educator guarantees that standards are never compromised.

By the end of the course the student will have mastered the following grammar categories:

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PRESENT TIME

1. Present Simple vs Present Progressive

2. Stative vs Active verbs

3. Other uses of Present Progressive

4. Other uses of Present Simple

FUTURITY

1. 'Will', 'going to', Present Progressive

2. Future Progressive

3. Future Perfect

4. Other future references

PAST TIME

1. Past Simple vs Past Progressive

2. Past Perfect vs Past Perfect Progressive

3. 'Used to' and 'would'

4. Unfulfilled past events

5. Putativeness

6. Contrast with Present Perfect

VOICE

1. Usage of Passive voice

2. The pseudo Passive

3. Reporting verbs

4. Prepositional verbs

CONDITIONALS

1. The mixed conditionals

2. Variations

3. Inversion

THE SUBJUNCTIVE

1. 'It's time', 'I'd rarther', 'I'd prefer'

2. Formal and formulaic subjunctives

3. 'Suppose' and 'imagine'

MODALS-PRESENT & FUTURE

1. 'Don't have to' & 'must not'

2. 'Should'

3. 'Could'

4. 'Can'

5. 'May' and 'might'

6. 'Shall'

7. 'Will'

8. 'Would'

9. 'Need'

MODALS-PAST

1. 'Had to' and 'must have'

2. 'Should have' and 'ought to have'

3. 'Could have'

4. 'May have' and 'can't have'

5.'Would not'

6. 'Would have'

7. 'Needn't have' and 'didn't need to'

INVERSION

1. Usage

2. Negative adverbials

3. Conditionals

EMPHASIS

1. Focus

2. Adding words for emphasis

REPORTED SPEECH

1. Problems with modals and conditionals

2. Functions

3. Viewpoint

ARTICLES

1. Definiteness

2. Indefiniteness

RELATIVE CLAUSES

1. Restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses

2. 'Which' and 'that'

3. 'Who', 'whom', and 'whose'

4. Omitting the relative pronoun

5. Non-finate clauses

THE INFINITIVE & THE GERUND

1. The '-to' infinitive

2. The bare infinitive

PREPOSITIONS

1. Prepositions following adjectives

2. Prepositions following nouns

3. Beginnings

PHRASAL VERBS

LINKING WORDS AND PHRASES

1. Conjuncts

2. Disjuncts

3. Cohesive devices

PUNCTUATION & SPELLING

1. Common errors

2. Problem words

3. The comma

4. Apostrophes

5. Colons and semi-colons