Students who are taking the ECCE / FCE / ECPE / CPE / TOEIC / EDEXCEL / ΚΡΑΤΙΚΟ for the first time should be familiar with the following grammatical structures. Please visit Nick’s Grammar.

• THE PERFECT TENSES
• SEQUENCE IN TIME CLAUSES
• USED TO / WOULD
• RELATIVE CLAUSES
• COMPARISON
• THE IDIOMATIC PAST
• CONDITIONAL CLAUSES
• CONDITIONAL CLAUSES – WITHOUT “IF”
• PASSIVE VOICE
• DIRECT / INDIRECT SPEECH
• PASSIVE VOICE – PERSONAL CONSTRUCTION
• CLAUSES OF PURPOSE
• PARTICIPLES
  

  Exams

• PERFECT INFINITIVE
• CLAUSES OF CONCESSION
• I NVERSION
• THE CAUSATIVE USE OF “HAVE”
• GERUNDS
• SUBORDINATE CLAUSES                    They must have a good understanding of the following:
• MAKE / LET / ALLOW
• -ING / -ED
• TRANSITIVE / INTRANSITIVE USES OF VERBS
• CONCEALED RELATIVES
• MUST NOT / NEEDN’T /DON’T HAVE TO
• FOR / SINCE / AGO
• STILL / YET
• NOUN or VERB
• SO DO I / I DO TOO / NOR CAN I / NEITHER CAN I / I CAN’T EITHER
• SO / SUCH etc.
• “UNCOUNTABLES”
• ADVERBS / ADJECTIVES

Students are strongly advised to revise the relevant material under the above headings.

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