C1-C2 Grammar
Browse all C1-C2 Grammar lessons with examples, explanations, and practice quizzes.
Advanced Prepositions of Position and Movement
Choose precise spatial prepositions by distinguishing location, path, boundary crossing, endpoint, orientation, and figurative extension.
Advanced Subject-Verb Agreement
Resolve agreement with complex noun phrases, collective nouns, quantities, coordination, relative clauses, and notional variation.
Compound Nouns: Structure, Stress and Number
Interpret and form compound nouns through head direction, semantic relationship, stress, spelling convention, and plural placement.
Adverbial Clauses of Time
Use finite, non-finite, and reduced time clauses to order events, mark duration, and express immediate or completed relationships.
Purpose and Result: In Order To, So As To and So That
Express purpose and result with infinitive and finite clauses while controlling subject reference, negation, register, and punctuation.
Advanced Relative Pronouns and Relative Clauses
Build defining, non-defining, sentential, fused, and prepositional relative clauses with precise reference and punctuation.
To-Infinitives: Form, Meaning and Complementation
Use simple, continuous, perfect, passive, split, and bare infinitives within verb, adjective, noun, and purpose constructions.
Inversion for Emphasis and Formal Style
Use subject-auxiliary inversion after negative fronting, restrictive adverbials, conditionals, comparisons, and place expressions.