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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: ‘Must have’ vs ‘can’t have’

When investigators reconstruct an accident, they reason from evidence — the same logic English expresses with ‘must have’ and ‘can’t have’. Practise the contrast using the…

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Structure: ‘Due to’ vs ‘because’

"Due to" and "because" both explain a cause — but different grammar follows each one. Practise the contrast using the 2024 CrowdStrike IT outage that grounded…

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Structure: ‘Reporting verbs’

Allege, claim, insist, acknowledge, deny, testify: practise the reporting verbs that shaped coverage of Boeing's Senate hearing on its safety culture.

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Structure: ‘Purpose clauses’

To treat the injured, so that passengers understand the risk: practise purpose clauses with the Singapore Airlines turbulence incident.

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Structure: ‘Noun clauses’

A whole idea used like a noun: how that-clauses, embedded questions and wh-clauses work as the subject, object or complement of a sentence.