B1 ENGLISH GRAMMAR

The following long list of English grammar at B1 is what B1 students can use well most of the time.  B1 grammar is probably of most interest to A1 and A2 students to study because it is a higher level than they are at.

Adjectives

Adverbs

Clauses

defining relative clause TO infinitive

phrase ellipsis

‘It is for you to decide.’ (FOR +TO infinitive clause)

What a + NOUN PHRASE

BE like

If possible

negative question

I remember | believe | understand | hear (that) + CLAUSE

The thing + CLAUSE

as * as + mine | yours

or not?

QUESTION TAGS (range)

OR (question)

plus

comparative adjective + THAN + verb-ING

 SO + adjective + that CLAUSE

wondered wh* + CLAUSE

understand | realise + that CLAUSE

while if | although | though

non-defining WHO (object)

If + PRESENT SIMPLE + MODAL

ask + if | whether + CLAUSE

THE + noun + WHO|THAT + clause (focus)

as + ADJECTIVE | ADVERB + as + CLAUSE

too ADJECTIVE to INFINITIVE

‘WH’ question (no auxillary)

SAY to SOMEONE that

DO + verb (imperative)

do + VERB

the reason why

How + ADJECTIVE !

before | after + VERBing

the same as

question with adverb

COMBINING CLAUSES OF THE SAME TYPE

second & third conditonal

HOW + adjective + clause

defining relative clause (time)

If so (ellipted)

if not (ELLIPTED)

comparative adjective + THAN + finite clause

LINKING VERB + like | similar to

WHERE (relative clause)

either * or

the best NOUN to VERB

LINKING ADVERBS / SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

listing adjectives + ellipted clauses

STRANDED PREPOSITION

if | when | so | while + SUBORDINATE CLAUSE

It’s + adjective + ‘that’ clause (focus)

adjective + (that) clause

RATHER THAN + non-finite clause | phrase

superlative + THAT clause ‘the best you can’

conditional subordinate clauses & range of complex conjunctions

as if | as though (COMPARISON)

which whose interogatives

whose name relative clause

whose relative clause

subordinating clauses & conjunctions

It is important that NOUN + VERB

Would + limited range of adverbs

Reported Statements

THAT | WHO (object)

‘nothing wrong’ (indefinite pronoun + adjective | clause)

Is “Unless” B1 or B2?

Conjunctions

Determiners

Discourse Markers

Focus

Future

Modality

Negation

Nouns

Passives

Past

Prepositions

Present

Pronouns

Questions

Reported Speech

Verbs