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Structure

Aviation English grammar explained for pilots and controllers – clear rules, real aviation examples and practice exercises to lift your ICAO test performance.

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Structure

Structure: ‘Modals 6’

Modals and permission Looking at our diagram we can see that to ask for permission in the present or future we have four options; can, could,…

Structure

Structure: ‘Modals 5’

Time references for modal verbs Adding to what we saw previously, we look at the time reference for our modal verbs in each of their uses.…

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Structure: ‘What was it like?’

This time in our structure help we talk about the preposition ‘like’ and in particular the question; what was it like? Students sometimes confuse the verb…

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Structure: ‘Modals 4’

Modals related to ability, permission, prohibition and obligation We talked previously about how our modal verbs related to probability. Next we look at specific meanings to…

Structure

Structure: ‘Modals 3’

Modals and probability We previously said that all modals express a level of probability. This week we look at what that level of probability is related…