OXSET C1 - Grammar and Structure
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Glenn SweetOXSET C1 - Grammar and Structure
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Glenn SweetOXFORD SCHOOL OF ENGLISH SYLLABUS – Level C1
Grammar and Structures
All the Grammar and Structures of Levels A1, A2, B1 and B2 plus
VERBS
Past Perfect Continuous
Future Perfect Simple and Continuous
Future in the Past
Emphatic “do”
Present Subjunctive (e.g. “I suggest she be…” / “I recommend he do…”)
Formulaic Subjunctive (e.g. “Be that as it may…” / “Heaven forbid…” etc.)
Inversion (e.g. “Had she not done that…”)
Ellipsis (e.g. “You ready yet?” / “Sorry to keep you waiting.”)
Cleft sentences (e.g. “It was the butler who saw what happened”)
Pseudo-Cleft Sentences (e.g. “What you said is indefensible”)
Nominative/Dative Absolutes (e.g. “The exam [being] over, the students relaxed” /
“The guests [having been] invited, John started to lay the table”)
COMPLEX TWO - / THREE - PART PHRASAL VERBS
ADJECTIVES/ADVERBS
Order (when used in sequences)
COLLOCATIONS - Extreme Adjectives
Adjectives ending in –ed or –ing
Adjectives ending in –y (e.g. “It’s a yellowy-browny colour…”)
-ish/-ishly (e.g. “biggish/smallish” etc, “kittenishly/feverishly” etc.)
Compound adjectives
Adjectives formed with “n. +like” (e.g. cat-like/snake-like etc.)
MODALS
Present Continuous Forms
Past Forms (simple and continuous)
Expressions with wish / hope / regret
Would that it were / Would that she had etc.
Would (past habit)
PRONOUNS
Impersonal “one” (including “one’s”)
Double genitives (e.g. “That friend of yours…” / ”An enemy of the Doctor’s…”)
whom
Who / what / whom / where / when / how + [so]ever
Note – Candidates for the OXSET C1 Examination will encounter forms additional
to these (e.g. in reading texts) on which they will not be directly tested