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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: ‘Can and could’

We use 'can' for present ability and 'could' for past ability — but both go before the verb without 'to'. Practise with six gap-fill sentences drawn…

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Structure: ‘Nominalization’

Practise nominalization — converting verb phrases into noun phrases — using language drawn from the Dassault Falcon 10X maiden flight. Six sentence-transformation exercises at C1 level.

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Structure: ‘Future forms’

How English chooses between will, going to, the present continuous and the present simple to talk about the future — practised against the looming Paris airport…

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Structure: ‘Verb + infinitive’

Practise the verb + infinitive pattern — want to, plan to, decide to — with an error-correction exercise built around aviation sentences.

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Structure: ‘Cleft sentences’

It-clefts and wh-clefts let you decide what a reader notices first — with comprehension questions and a grammar focus drawn from Qantas's Project Sunrise test flight.