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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: ‘auxiliary verbs’

Using auxiliary verbs In English, verbs do not have many forms, usually only five, so there are a limited number of things that these forms can…

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Structure: ‘due to vs because’

This time in our structure help we talk about the difference between due to and because. Both of these expressions have similar uses, they both relate…

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Structure: ‘on time vs in time’

This time in our structure help we take a quick moment to talk about the different between on time and in time. When something happens on…

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Structure: ‘there is / there are’

We use this structure to indicate that something (or somebody) exists (or does not exist) in a specific place at some time. There is / there…

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Structure: ‘past perfect’

This time in our structure help we talk about the past perfect. Look at the example below. Peter had a flight at 9am last Saturday morning.…

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Structure: ‘verbs + verbs 4’

This time in our structure help we continue to talk about patterns when we have two verbs together. In our previous posts we saw the patterns;…