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Making conversation --Action and state verbs --Using collocations --Complex descriptions --Making general statements --Travel and tourism --Phrasal verbs --Narrative tenses --Giving advice and opinions --Making predictions --Family and relationships --Using discourse markers --Past habits and states --Comparing and contrasting --Two comparatives together --Studying --Taking notes --Speaking approximately --Changing emphasis --Things that might happen --Working --Job applications --Asking polite questions --Complex verb patterns --Double object verbs --Meeting and presenting --Reflexive pronouns --Meeting and planning --Qualifying descriptions --Expressing purpose --Environmental concerns --Conditional tenses --Past regrets --Actions and consequences --Few or little? --Tradition and superstition --Past possibility --Speculation and deduction --Mixed conditionals --Adding "-ever" to questions words --Media and celebrity --Reporting with passives --Making indirect statements --Adding emphasis --Shifting focus --Crime and the law --Relative clauses --More relative clauses --Modal verbs in the future --Modal verbs overview --Customs and cultures --Talking about groups --Old and new situations --Articles --Abstract ideas --Technology and the future --Future hopes --The future continuous --The future perfect --The future in the past --Art and culture --Leaving words out --Substituting words --Shortening infinitives --Expressing reactions --Getting things done --Complex agreement --"So" and "such" --Using articles to generalize.