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B2 Verbs and tenses · Future

Future perfect

Actions completed by a future point

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Example: By June I will have finished.
Common misconception: Form; confusion with future continuous

Open lesson: Future perfect 44 exercises available

B2 Verbs and tenses · Future

Future perfect continuous

Duration up to a future point

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Example: By 5 she will have been driving for six hours.
Common misconception: Form; low frequency

Open lesson: Future perfect continuous 44 exercises available

B2 Verbs and tenses · Future

Future in the past

was going to/would for past-viewed future

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Example: I was going to call but I forgot.
Common misconception: Tense choice

Open lesson: Future in the past 44 exercises available

B2 Verbs and tenses · Future

Other future forms

be about to/be due to/be on the point of

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Example: The train is about to leave.
Common misconception: Form and register

Open lesson: Other future forms 44 exercises available

B2 Verbs and tenses · Narrative

Narrative tenses with used to/would

Full past-tense system for narration

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Example: The sun had set and we were still walking.
Common misconception: Sequencing; would for states

Open lesson: Narrative tenses with used to/would 44 exercises available

B2 Modal verbs · Deduction past

Modal perfects (must/might/can't have)

Deduction and speculation about the past

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Example: She must have left already.
Common misconception: Form (must of); meaning distinctions

Open lesson: Modal perfects (must/might/can't have) 44 exercises available

B2 Modal verbs · Criticism

Should have / ought to have

Regret and criticism about the past

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Example: You should have told me.
Common misconception: Form; should of

Open lesson: Should have / ought to have 44 exercises available

B2 Modal verbs · Necessity

Needn't have / didn't need to

Unnecessary past actions distinction

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Example: You needn't have cooked.
Common misconception: needn't have vs didn't need to meaning

Open lesson: Needn't have / didn't need to 44 exercises available

B2 Modal verbs · Obligation

Modal verbs of obligation and permission

Range of obligation prohibition permission

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Example: Visitors are not allowed to smoke.
Common misconception: let/make/allow patterns

Open lesson: Modal verbs of obligation and permission 44 exercises available

B2 Modal verbs · Speculation

Speculation and deduction expressions

Modals plus be bound to/likely to

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Example: They're bound to win.
Common misconception: Register; form

Open lesson: Speculation and deduction expressions 43 exercises available

B2 Conditionals · Mixed

Mixed conditionals

Cross-time hypothetical conditions

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Example: If I had studied I would have a better job now.
Common misconception: Matching correct clause tenses

Open lesson: Mixed conditionals 44 exercises available

B2 Conditionals · Alternatives

Alternatives to if

unless/provided/as long as/even if

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Example: You can go as long as you're careful.
Common misconception: unless meaning; comma use

Open lesson: Alternatives to if 44 exercises available