Quick Grammar

Conditionals are sentences with two clauses – an ‘if clause and a main clause – that are closely related. Conditional sentences are often divided into different types.

Nouns can be countable or uncountable. When you learn a new noun you should make a note of whether it is countable or uncountable as we use different words with countables and uncountables.

Some words can be both countable and uncountable depending on how they are used.

‘Enough’ can qualify an adjective or an adverb or it can go with a noun or even act as a pronoun.

The future continuous (will be + ‘ing’ form) and the future perfect (will have + past participle) tenses are used to talk about events in the future.

We use different verb forms to talk about our plans for the future – depending on what kind of plan it is.

In spite of, despite and although are all used to show a contrast but there are differences in the structures used with them.

These words are often used with the present perfect tense although yet, still and already can all be used with other tenses.

To express permission, prohibition, obligation and no obligation we usually use modal verbs.

We use modal verbs to say how sure we are about something.