Grammar learning path · C2 Proficient
Packaging information in advanced sentences.
Advanced speakers and writers do not only choose clauses; they decide how information hangs together around the main clause. Attach absolute and verbless clauses, let coordinated clauses share elements through gapping, and recognise how spoken English moves topics to the edges of a sentence.
First lesson · Absolute and Verbless Supplementary Clauses
What you'll learn.
- Attach and punctuate absolute and verbless supplementary clauses.
- Use gapping and shared elements in coordination without losing parallelism or clarity.
- Recognise left and right dislocation and resumptive pronouns and match them to register.
Before you start.
- Control C1 participle clauses, ellipsis and cleft sentences.
Lessons in this path.
Take them in order- 1Lesson 1Absolute and Verbless Supplementary Clauses
Analyses absolute and verbless supplementary clauses: independent subjects, implied relations, attachment, punctuation and their formal register.
- 2Lesson 2Gapping and Shared Elements in Coordination
Covers gapping and shared elements in coordinated clauses, with the parallelism, contrast and punctuation that keep them unambiguous.
- 3Lesson 3Dislocation and Resumptive Pronouns in Spoken Discourse
Examines left and right dislocation in speech, how resumptive pronouns keep track of topics, and where the pattern fits in register and intonation.
Ready?
Absolute and Verbless Supplementary Clauses.
Begin with the first lesson and work through the practice at your own pace.