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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: ‘Present perfect 1’

Using the present perfect with ‘have you ever….?’ The present perfect is a common tense but is often confused because it’s used in a different way…

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Structure: ‘Superlative adjectives’

How to make superlative adjectives Adjectives are put into four different categories before creating their comparative and superlative forms: one-syllable or short adjectives two or more…

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Structure: ‘Comparative adjectives’

How to make comparative adjectives Adjectives are put into four different categories before creating their comparative forms: one-syllable or short adjectives two or more syllable long…

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Structure: ‘avoid vs prevent’

This time in our structure help we talk about the difference between avoid and prevent. These two verbs relate to similar, but not the same ideas.…

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Structure: ‘Modals 8’

Modals and obligation In the diagram below we can see that both should and must can be used to talk about present or future obligations. Again,…

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Structure: ‘Modals 7’

Modals and prohibition From the diagram, we can see that to talk about prohibition there are five options, depending on the situation. ‘Mustn’t’ is the strongest…