You can use this Start-of-course Grammar Checker to revise and check the grammar you should know at the start of the Intermediate level. On the left-hand pages you’ll find grammar rules and on the right-hand pages there are exercises that go with them. Read the rules, do the exercises, and then check your answers in the key.

1 • Word order in questions

 

• Present simple

 

• Adverbs and expressions of frequency

 

• Present continuous: be + verb + -ing

 

• Definitive relative clauses with who, which, where

2 • Past simple regular and irregular

 

• Past continuous: was I were + verb + -ing

 

• Past simple or past continous?

 

• Questions with and without auxiliaries

 

• So, because, but, although

3 • Going to

 

• Will, wont + infinitive (predictions)

 

• Will (promises, offers, and decisions)

 

• Review of tenses: present, past, and future

4 • Present perfect (experience) + ever, never

 

• Present perfect or past simple?

 

• Present perfect + yet, just, already

 

• Comparative adjectives and adverbs

 

• Superlatives (+ ever + present perfect)

5 • Uses of the infinitive (with to)

 

• Verb + -ing

 

• Have to, don’t have to, must, mustn’t

 

• Expressing movement: go, etc. + preposition

6 • If+ present, will + infinitive (first conditional)

 

• I/+ past, would + infinitive (second conditional)

 

• may / might + infinitive (possibility)

 

• should / shouldn’t (advice)

7 • Present perfect + for and since

 

• Present perfect or past simple (2)?

 

• Used to / didn’t use to

 

• Passive: be + past participle

8 • Something, anything, nothing, etc.

 

• Quantifiers

 

• Word order of phrasal verbs

 

• So, neither + auxiliaries

9 • Past perfect

 

• Reported (or indirect) speech