C1 - Intermediate & Advanced English Grammar Tests
Welcome to the C1 Grammar Tests section of FreeTestEnglish.
At C1 level, you are expected to use English comfortably and accurately, including more complex grammar structures. The tests below cover a wide range of grammar topics that can help you improve your accuracy and deal with the finer points of English grammar.
Each topic has its own practice test, so you can choose the areas you want to work on. If you are preparing for an advanced English exam, these tests can also help you identify grammar points that need more revision.
C1 Grammar Tests
Choose a topic below to start practising:
- Advanced Tenses – practise the different ways of talking about past, present and future situations.
- Modal Verbs – practise modal verbs and their more advanced uses.
- Perfect Modals – practise structures such as should have, could have, might have and must have.
- Conditionals – practise advanced conditional structures, including mixed conditionals.
- Inversion – practise inverted sentence structures used for emphasis and more formal English.
- Passive Voice – practise more advanced passive structures and different ways of expressing passive meaning.
- Reported Speech – practise reporting statements, questions and other types of speech.
- Gerunds and Infinitives – practise different verb patterns and structures involving -ing forms and infinitives.
- Relative Clauses – practise more advanced relative clauses and reduced relative structures.
- Participle Clauses – practise using present and past participles to make sentences more concise.
- Articles and Determiners – work on the more difficult uses of a, an, the and other determiners.
- Quantifiers – practise a wider range of expressions used with quantities and amounts.
- Adjectives and Adverbs – practise advanced adjective and adverb structures and their position in sentences.
- Prepositions – work on prepositions used with verbs, adjectives, nouns and common expressions.
- Phrasal Verbs – practise more advanced phrasal verbs and their meanings in context.
- Linking Words and Conjunctions – improve your use of words and expressions for connecting ideas.
- Cleft Sentences – practise structures used to give emphasis to particular parts of a sentence.
- Wish, If Only and Unreal Situations – practise expressing wishes, regrets and hypothetical situations.
- Used To, Would and Be Used To – practise the differences between these commonly confused structures.
- Other C1 Grammar Topics – find more practice covering grammar points commonly used at advanced level.
Take your time with each topic and pay attention to the mistakes you make. Sometimes a small difference in grammar can change the meaning of a sentence.
Choose a topic above and start practising your C1 English grammar.