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Present/Continuous
Present continuous as temporary s...,
State verbs rarely used in presen...,
Some verbs can mean state or acti...
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Present Simple or Continuous 2
Stories and jokes in informal spo...,
The main event in simple and back...,
In narratives or anecdots use sim...
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Past and Present Perfect
Time expressions that refer to th...,
With since use past in the time c...,
Since can be used with both verbs...
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Past Perfect and Past Simple
Events in chronological order use...,
When it is clear that we are talk...,
If the order of the events is cle...
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Present Perfect Continuous and Present Perfect
Pp continuous to express that an ...,
Don t use pp continuous with belo...,
Use pp continuous or simple about...
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Past Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect, Past Simple
Past perfect continuous use when ...,
Past perfect use to talk about ho...,
Past perfect continuous use when ...
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Present and Past - Review
Use continuous when focus on acti...,
Use simple forms to talk about ha...,
Use simple forms with verbs that ...
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Will and Be going to
Use will or be going to for thing...,
Use will to make a prediction bas...,
Use going to to predictions based...
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Present Simple and Continuous for the future
Use present simple or will for ti...,
Use will be going to or present c...,
Use present simple not will to re...
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Future Continuous and Future Perfect (Continous)
Use future continuous for predict...,
Use future continuous for activit...,
Use future continuous or present ...
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BE TO+Infinitive, BE ABOUT TO+Infinitive
Be to infinitive is used in news ...,
Be to infinitive is used to talk ...,
Be to infinitive is used to event...
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Other ways to talk about the future
Meaning similar to be about to li...,
Be due to infinitive sth is expec...,
Some verbs to infinitive to say i...
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Future seen from the Past
Future from the past we use the p...,
I m not going to say anything abo...,
Will you be going alone
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Can,Could, be Able to and be Allowed to
Use be able to instead of can cou...,
Use be able to to talk about a si...,
Could is usually more natural tha...
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Will, Would or Used TO
Use will present or would past wh...,
Don t use will or would to talk a...,
In speech we can stress will or w...
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May or Might
May and might have similar meanin...,
Don t use may to ask questions ab...,
In formal questions use might abo...
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Must and Have (Got) to
Must and must not to informal rul...,
In spoken english use must or mus...,
Use must for internal obligations...
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Needn't, don't need to and Don't have to
Need can be used as modal verb or...,
As a modal verb need is used in n...,
In questions use need as an ordin...
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Should, Ought to and Had Better
Use should and ought to to obliga...,
To conclude use must not should n...,
Use should when an authority reco...
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Linking Verbs
When an adjective or a noun phras...,
After the verb appear look prove ...,
Use get instead of become informa...
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Forming Passive Sentences
Verbs can be in v do preposition ...,
Some verbs can t be followed by t...,
Verbs followed by obejct compleme...
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Passive Forming 2
Verbs followed by verb ing are ma...,
Verbs followed by ing can be form...,
Some verbs followed by object ing...
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Using Passives
Use a passive when 1 omit the age...,
Some nouns related to the verb ca...,
Put the topic at the beginning of...
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Reporting with passives
Use passive to report what people...,
Use it passive form that to leave...,
Verbs that are not used in the it...
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Wh-questions
Who refers to people can be used ...,
Whom is a formal alternative to w...,
Which is used to refer to people ...
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Negative Questions
Negative questions are made with ...,
In formal contexts we use not to ...,
Negative questions with never no ...
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Verbs, objects and complements
Some verbs can be transitive or i...,
Some transitive verbs don t need ...,
Some verbs need a complement to d...
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Verbs with 2 objects
Some verbs can be followed by 2 o...,
With verbs of 2 objects it is pos...,
Some verbs with 2 objects cannot ...
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Verbs + ING
Some verbs can be followed by obj...,
Some verbs can be followed by to ...,
Other verbs can be followed by di...
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Verbs+ING 2
Some verbs need to include an obj...,
Some verbs don t need to include ...,
For some verbs we put a prepositi...
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Report statments - that clause
Usually use that clause in a repo...,
Some verbs have an alternative wi...,
Some verbs must include an object...
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Verb+WH clause
Some verbs can be followed by a w...,
Some verbs must have an object be...,
We can often use the way instead ...
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Tense Choice in Reporting
When the situation reported in re...,
When the situation in the reporte...,
To report something happened in t...
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Reporting order, sugestions...
Some verbs can follow a to infini...,
Object to infinitive clause encou...,
After some verbs can use that cla...
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Modal Verbs in Reporting
Some modal verbs change in report...,
We use modals when there is no mo...
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Reporting using Nouns and Adjectives
Reporting using nouns can be foll...,
Noun to infinitive invitation enc...,
Noun wh clause question issue exp...
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Should in THAT clauses
When report advice orders suggest...,
After should we use be past parti...,
In written english we can let sho...
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Subject and Verb 1
The verb agrees with the subject ...,
If the subject is a clause senten...,
Nouns collective can be used with...
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Subject and Verb 2
With any of each of either of nei...,
With a the majority of a number o...,
After one of plural noun we use s...
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Subject and Verb 3
With plural nouns the verb goes p...,
Some plural nouns are used with s...,
Uncountable nouns ending in s ver...
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Compound noun or phrases
Compound noun noun the first is s...,
We use noun s noun possessive for...,
Use noun preposition noun talk ab...
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A, AN and One
Use a before words begin with con...,
Use an before words that start wi...,
Use a or an to an unspecified per...
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A, AN, THE or zero article 1
We use the the unique things ex t...,
We can use the in generalizations...,
With uncountable don t use articl...
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A, AN, THE, zero article 2
We use a an to say a job a doctor...,
Use zero article before the name ...,
We can use a an before the name o...
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A,AN, THE, zero article 3
We use zero article with plurals ...,
Often we use zero article for hol...,
We can use zero article or the wi...
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Some and Any
Some it is used before plural and...,
Any we use any anything anyone an...
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NO, NONE of, NOT ANY
At the beginning of the phrase an...,
Some expressions with no are very...
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Much, many, a lot of, lots of
In affirmative informal sentences...,
After the my his her use many plu...,
Use a good great many plural to m...
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All, whole, every, each.
Use all after the noun it refers ...,
All and whole before singular cou...,
We use every with the words almos...
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Few, little, less, fewer.
We often use a few a little with ...,
We can use the few or the little ...,
In formal writing we use few litt...
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Relative Pronouns
Relative pronouns which for thing...,
In formal contexts we use which f...
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Other relative words
Whose noun in belonging relations...,
We can use when whereby methods w...,
We use who what whatever whoever ...
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