Grammar – Intermediate Level

These structures support storytelling, decision-making, and more nuanced conversation skills.

1. Simple Past – Regular and Irregular Verbs
   → Crucial for understanding stories, past events, and interviews.
2. Used To + Base Verb
   → Helps talk about past habits or situations that no longer happen—common in storytelling and sharing personal experiences.
3. Past Continuous
   → Helps recognize background actions or interruptions during storytelling.
4. Present Perfect (ever, never, already, yet)
   → Allows speakers to connect past experiences to the present, common in personal conversations.
5. Past Perfect
   → Helps describe an action that was completed before another past action.
6. Future with Present Continuous
   → Important for planning and predicting, often heard in discussions and casual chats.
7. Comparatives
   → Helps you follow comparisons in reviews, descriptions, and decisions.
8. Superlatives (the tallest, the most interesting, etc.)
   → Helps speakers and listeners identify extremes in opinions, descriptions, and comparisons.
9. Modals of Advice: Might, Could, Should, Ought To, Have To, Had Better
   → Important for understanding suggestions, obligations, and possibilities in spoken advice.
10. Gerunds and Infinitives (like doing / want to do)
    → Common when discussing preferences, plans, and goals.
11. Adverbs of Frequency (always, usually, often, sometimes, seldom, never)
    → Helps listeners understand how often something happens.
12. Adverbs of Manner (quickly, carefully, etc.)
    → Adds detail to how actions are done—important for instructions and storytelling.
13. Present Real Conditional (If + present, present)
    → Helps understand general truths or cause-effect relationships in explanations.
14. Future Real Conditional (If + present, will)
    → Common in decision-making, warnings, and predictions.
15. Reflexive Pronouns (myself, yourself, etc.)
    → Useful for recognizing emphasis or actions done alone.
16. Too / Enough + Adjective or Noun
    → Helps express sufficiency or limitations—important in opinions and decisions.
17. Quantifiers (some, any, a few, a lot of, much, many)
    → Helps you grasp amounts or availability in conversations.
18. Would like / Would rather
    → Useful for polite offers and preferences in dialogue.
19. So / Neither + Auxiliary (So do I. Neither can she.)
    → Helps build natural-sounding responses and agreement in conversation.
20. Common Phrasal Verbs (get up, turn off, look for, wake up, speak up, take off)
    → Very common in spoken English; essential for fluency and comprehension.