GRAMMAR Maritza Satán

GRAMMAR Maritza Satán

1. USED TO

   • MODALITY
     • to talk about things that were true but stopped being true
   • Example
     • There used to be a wall here.
       • Mark used to have a dog but he gave it away.

2. USE TO

   • Before we get into idiomatic meanings for the phrase used to, it is worth pointing out that both use and used can correctly appear before to when to is part of the infinitive of a second verb. That sounds far more complicated than it is, so let’s go straight to some examples.

3. USE TO

   • In these kinds of sentences, whether you decide to write use to or used to will depend on whether the present or past tense is needed.
     • Example
       • What do you use to decorate cakes and cookies?

4. Quantifiers for indefinite quantities and amounts

   • Is a word or phrase which is used before a noun to indicate the amount or quantity: 'Some', 'many', 'a lot of' and 'a few' are examples of quantifiers. Quantifiers can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns.
     • Example
       • There are some books on the desk
         • How much money have you got?
           • There is a large quantity of fish in this river.
             • He's got more friends than his sister.

5. The real conditional

   • Conditional type zero is used to talk about general truths, scientific facts or things which always happen under certain conditions.
     • If you cross an international date line, the time changes. Phosphorus burns if you expose it to air. If I wake up early, I go jogging.
     • Example

6. The unreal conditional

   • One action must happen before the other can happen. A remote conditional is used when the likelihood of something happening is in a distant, imaginary, contrary-to-fact world.
     • Example
       • If he had time,
         • If he felt rested,

7. Comparison With As..As

   • We use as + adjective/adverb + as to make comparisons when the things we are comparing are equal in some way:
     • Example
       • It’s not as heavy as I thought it would be, actually.
         • Rory hasn’t grown as tall as Tommy yet.
           • She’s not singing as loudly as she can.

8. Gerunds and Infinitives

   • After certain verbs
     • I enjoy singing
   • After prepositions
     • I drank a cup of coffee before leaving
   • As the subject or object of a sentence
     • Swimming is good exercise

9. Active voice

   • The active voice describes a sentence where the subject performs the action stated by the verb. It follows a clear subject + verb + object construct that's easy to read.
     • Example
       • Harry ate six shrimp at dinner.
         • Beautiful giraffes roam the savannah.

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