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GRAMMAR CONTENTS
- level 3-

1. Use and omission of definite and indefinite articles.
2. Compound nouns.
3. Countable and mass nouns.
4. The adjective: position of adjectives within the noun phrase. Adjectives used as
    nouns (the poor, the rich, etc.)
5. Adjectives ending in -ing or -ed.
6. Pronouns: reflexive (oneself, myself) and reciprocal (each other, one another)
    pronouns.
7. Position of adverbs within the sentence: adverbs of frequency, manner, place
    and time.
8. Indefinite pronouns: other/another; one, ones, the one, the ones.
9. Relative pronouns: that, who, which, where, whose. Defining and non-defining
    relative clauses.
10. Prepositions.
11. Some-, any-, no- and every- compounds.
12. All, both, every, each.
13. Either, neither. Either... or.… Neither... nor...
14. Quantifiers: much, many, a lot. Little, few, a few, a little. Several, a number
     of, a small/large amount of. Quite.
15. Comparative and superlative expressions.
16. Partitive expressions (a piece of cake, a tube of toothpaste).
17. So and such.
18. Too and enough.
19. Gerund and infinitive and their different uses.
20. Verbal tenses and all their aspects: simple, perfect and continuous.
21. Verbs followed by gerund or to + infinitive.
22. -ing after certain verbs (like, love, prefer, hate, suggest, etc.)
23. Modals of prohibition, deduction, probability, obligation, permission, request,
    advice.Followed by simple infinitive or perfect infinitive: must, have to, can, be
    able to, should, will, would, ought to, may, might. Had better/would rather.
24. Phrasal verbs.
25. Look, look like, seem.
26. Want/Tell somebody to do something.
27. Make, let, allow to + infinitive.
28. Causative have.
29. Suffixes and prefixes of frequent use.
30. Word order: affirmative, interrogative and negative sentences.
31. Tag questions.
32. Conditional sentences: all types.
33. Time, purpose, concession and result clauses.
34. Passive voice in all tenses.
35. Reported speech: statements, questions, commands and requests in different
     tenses and using reporting verbs (suggest, warn, advise, etc.)
36. Used to + infinitive (not ..... any more/any longer)
37. Connectors: and, also, or, but, because, so, therefore, first, then, finally; first
     of all, moreover, on the other hand, however, etc.

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