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Content description VCEALL391

EAL / Level B2 / Linguistic Structures and Features / Grammatical patterns
Content description
Use a range of verb forms correctly
Elaborations
  1. maintaining consistency of verb tenses in a paragraph or short text, such as ‘–ing’ and ‘–ed’
  2. using ‘to be’ as an auxiliary verb in common phrases, for example in simple passive constructions (‘It was broken’) or continuous tenses (‘I am eating’)
  3. using ‘to have’ as an auxiliary verb in common phrases, for example ‘They have finished’
  4. expressing a small range of complex negatives with some accuracy, for example with appropriate subject–verb agreement (‘He doesn’t like’) or modality (‘She can’t come’)
Code
VCEALL391
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