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B2: what's new

Use every tense, conditional and clause type accurately.

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# B2 · Upper-intermediate ## Words ### Word classes - Word formation 2: prefixes ### Nouns - a coffee or coffee? Nouns that change meaning - Special plurals: trousers, news, criteria - Possession 3: 's, of or noun + noun? ### Determiners - Articles 3: generic and abstract - Quantifiers 3: few or a few? ### Modifiers - Gradable & non-gradable adjectives - Adjective order & compound adjectives - Comparison 3: twice as…, by far, like or as - Adverbs 2: hard or hardly? late or lately? ### Prepositions - Dependent prepositions 2 - Prepositional phrases & zero-preposition traps - Preposition or conjunction? during/while, despite/although ## Verbs ### Tenses - Narrative tenses & past perfect continuous - Future perfect & future continuous - be about to, be due to; was going to - Habits: would, used to, will, always -ing - Stative verbs 2: You're being silly ### Modals - Deduction about the past: must have, can't have - Past modals: should have, could have, needn't have - Modals with continuous & passive infinitives - dare, need; be able to; won't for refusal ### Voice - Ergative, reflexive & reciprocal verbs - Passive 3: continuous, infinitive, two objects - Passive 4: phrasal verbs, get-passive, needs doing - Causative: have/get something done - It is said that… / He is said to… ### Verb patterns - Perfect & passive -ing and to - I saw him cross/crossing; prevent sb from -ing - Fixed expressions + -ing: it's no use, look forward to - Adjective / noun + to: It's kind of you to… ## Sentences ### Structure - Advanced questions: How come…? Echo & reply questions - Subject–verb agreement 2 ### Clauses - Relative clauses 2: to whom, some of which - Reduced relative clauses - Participle clauses - Noun clauses: that, what, whether - Concession & contrast 2 ### Conditionals - Third conditional - Mixed conditionals - Alternatives to if: provided, suppose, otherwise - wish, if only, would rather, it's time ### Reported speech - Reporting verbs & their patterns - Reported speech 2: when not to change tense ## Text ### Linking - Ellipsis & substitution 1 - Emphasis 1: I do like it; What I need is… - Inversion 1: Not only…, So do I - Discourse markers ### Style - Colons, semicolons, dashes & sentence types

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