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Functional Grammar - What it is
Grammar Teams - reviewing grammar

The Amazing World of Modal Auxiliaries (it includes "will" and "would")

Lexical Creativity Workshop (4 pages) + Prefixes (2 pages) + Suffixes (1 page)
Mistakes by Native Speakers: Ambiguity and Multiplicity in Meaning (1 page)
Lexical Relations: Some notes on euphemisms and synonyms (1 page)
Verbs for Essays 01 (1 page)
Verbs for Essays 02 (1 page)

Verbs 1 an introduction on verbs, on the tenses and the non-personal forms
Phrasal verbs (with listening exercises)
Use of tenses: Past simple vs. pres. perf, / Past simple & past cont. (1 page)
Present perfect or past simple? (1 page)
Expressing the future
Progressive and non-progressive verbs
V-S inversion with adverbials
Future in the Past (1 page)
Miscellanea 01 (1 page) - includes present perfect cont., future cont. ...
Inversions after negative adverbials (1 page)

Passives 01 +

How...? and What ... like? +

Clauses 1 - intro, types
Clauses 2 - adverbial clauses
Clauses 3 - some confusing connectors
Clauses 4 - conditional sentences (a type of adverbial clause)
Clauses 5 (1 page) - relative clauses - Oral Drilling 1 - Audio answers at Useful Language - Sentences for your Grammar - Relative clauses: Consolidation
Clauses 6 (1 page) - relative clauses - Various topics and Oral Drilling 2

Use of Linking Expressions, by michelle (1 page) (Upper Intermediate, Advanced)
List of Mistakes: Improving your wording and your use of connectors - an example (1 page) (Upper Intermediate, Advanced)
Useful Linking Expressions by Ana (Intermediate)
Connectors (first draft) (1 page) - to modify

Infinitives, gerunds and participles 01 - based on common mistakes
Infinitive or Gerund? 1 Check this out: here
Infinitive or Gerund? 2
Infinitive or Gerund? 3
Infinitive or Gerund? 4 (1 page) +

Nouns and Company (Determiners) (2 pages) - for your List of Mistakes
Other & Co. - explanation, crib note & 2 exercises
The Saxon Genitive, the of-phrase and noun phrases (1 page)

Modifiers 1-4 - the definite article "the": use & omission

Prepositions: Time & Place. At, On, In (for everybody! Read 'em aloud many times!)

Adverbs: Word Order
Adjective or Adverb (for Ana, who feels good about it!, Y3B, 2006-07)
Ways to Describe & Grammar
Adjectives: Word Order
Adjectives 1 - comparative & superlative (1 page)
Adjectives 2 - comparative & superlative (1 page)
Adverbs & Adverbials (2 pages)
Exercise on Adverbials (2 pages; with key)

Recycling: Grammar notes & exercises I used at state-run secondary schools

More Info: External Links

Language: a feminist guide
Grammar Girl
The Internet Grammar of English