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C1 Grammar Guide

The document outlines essential grammar topics for the C1 Cambridge Exam, including verb tenses, modal verbs, conditionals, and passive voice. It also covers reported speech, relative clauses, gerunds and infinitives, articles and determiners, inversion and emphasis, linking devices, phrasal verbs, idioms, noun phrases, nominalisation, and collocations. Each section emphasizes the usage and rules necessary for advanced English proficiency.

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C1 Grammar Guide

The document outlines essential grammar topics for the C1 Cambridge Exam, including verb tenses, modal verbs, conditionals, and passive voice. It also covers reported speech, relative clauses, gerunds and infinitives, articles and determiners, inversion and emphasis, linking devices, phrasal verbs, idioms, noun phrases, nominalisation, and collocations. Each section emphasizes the usage and rules necessary for advanced English proficiency.

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Essential Grammar for C1 Cambridge Exam

1. Verb Tenses

Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect Simple/Continuous, Past Simple, Past Continuous,

Past Perfect, Future forms (will, going to, present continuous for future). Emphasis on time references and

contrast of tenses.

2. Modal Verbs

Ability, advice, necessity, deduction, speculation, and obligation (can, could, should, must, might, may, have

to, ought to, shall, would, etc.).

3. Conditionals

Zero, First, Second, Third, and Mixed Conditionals. Inversion in conditionals for formal structures.

4. Passive Voice

All tenses in the passive, including modals in the passive (e.g., must be done, can be seen). Passive

constructions with reporting verbs.

5. Reported Speech

Statements, questions, and commands in reported speech. Backshifting rules and reporting verbs with

gerunds/infinitives.

6. Relative Clauses

Defining and non-defining relative clauses. Relative pronouns (who, which, that, whose, where, when).

7. Gerunds and Infinitives

Verbs followed by gerunds/infinitives and changes in meaning (e.g., stop to do vs. stop doing).
Essential Grammar for C1 Cambridge Exam

8. Articles and Determiners

A, an, the, zero article. Quantifiers (some, any, few, little, much, many, a lot of).

9. Inversion and Emphasis

Inversion after negative adverbials (e.g., Not only..., Never..., Seldom...). Cleft sentences and emphasis

structures.

10. Linking Devices

Contrast, cause/effect, addition, and sequencing (although, despite, however, in spite of, therefore,

furthermore, etc.).

11. Phrasal Verbs & Idioms

Wide range of commonly used C1-level phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions in formal and informal

contexts.

12. Noun Phrases and Nominalisation

Advanced noun structures for academic/formal writing. Using noun phrases and nominalisation to condense

information.

13. Collocations

Common adjective-noun, verb-noun, and verb-preposition collocations essential for natural language use.

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