Complex grammar with control: clauses and nominalisation
Use relative clauses, mixed and inverted conditionals and nominalisation accurately. Complex sentences only help when they stay correct.
10 min
Module 25 · Lesson 4 of 5
In this lesson
- Punctuate defining and non-defining relative clauses correctly, and know what the commas mean.
- Use mixed and inverted conditionals with the right verb forms.
- Turn verbs into nouns (nominalisation) to write more concisely, without overdoing it.
- Avoid the usual slips: that after a comma, would after if, too many nouns.
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