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- Parts of Speech803
- Nouns and Pronouns660
- Articles, Determiners and Quantifiers727
- Adjectives and Adverbs1,037
- Prepositions and Conjunctions263
- Verbs, Tenses and Modals832
- Gerunds and Infinitives217
- Sentence Structure, Phrases and Clauses523
- Subject-Verb Agreement109
- Questions and Imperatives420
- Relative Clauses345
- Conditionals, Wishes and Regrets200
- Active and Passive Voice330
- Reported Speech311
- Grammar Usage and Common Errors147
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Articles Articles Primary rules When you have a single, countable English noun, you must always have an article before it. The indefinite article “a” is used when it is followed by a word beginning with a consonant. The indefi...
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Would rather / had rather / had better Rather than means instead of something or in preference to. Rather than complicating matters further, we should just let Martha deal with it herself. Would rather / had rather they are both the ...
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INVERSION - created from Mind Map Inversion just means putting the verb before the subject. We usually do it in question forms We have two verb tenses, in which we only change the places of the verb and the subject:
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Lexics - created from Mind Map Nouns Verbs Adverbs
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05/07/2025 - Ana My husband chooses gifts very well. You hate crowded restaurants, since you are a child. New marketing campaing from Heineken. What is Heineken’s goal with this campaign? When people have a ...
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07/02/2025 - Keith She told me yesterday that she will go to your daughter's birthday party. Today is the birthday, but the party is on the weekend. My father-in-law works in Vista ao Mar. Vista ao Mar is the restaurant bes...
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Grammar - created from Mind Map Subjects and Predicates complete simple compound Subjects Predicates Is the group of words that tells whom or what the sentencie is about. MARCELO , THE KID FROM OUR GYM CLASS is going to play with us today. Is the gr...
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English Grammar 101 Noun - a word that names a person, place, thing, smell, or taste Concrete nouns - people, places, or things that you can physically interact with. Abstract nouns - ideas, concepts., or emotions. These are intangi...
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Mind Map 2nd Partial - creado desde un Mapa Mental ARTICLES PRESENT PERFECT VS PRESENT PERFECT CONTINOUS PRESENT PERFECT VS SIMPLE PAST
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Basic grammar and tenses Possessive Adjectives - They agree with the noun they describe not the owner. Example - sus botas = his boots - boots are plural. In order of my, your, his/her/its, our your, their Singular - mi, tu, su, nuestro/...
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Grammar 1B (AUXILIARY VERBS) AUXILIARY VERBSWe use auxiliary vers (be, do, have, will, ...) or modal verbs (can, must, ...): To avoid repeating the main verb/phrase, e.g. I like animals, but my husband doesn't With so and neither to say that some...
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Topic 16 Expression of possession - creado desde un Mapa Mental Possession can be expressed by Nouns Adjectives
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Demonstrative Adjectives What are Demonstrative adjectives? Demonstrative adjectives are words we use to point out specific people or things. In English, the most common demonstrative adjectives are this, that, these, and those. They are alwa...
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Review - creado desde un Mapa Mental Have got Plurals Possessive case
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FOR, SINCE, EVER , NEVER, ALREADY, YET - created from Mind Map We also use "since" as a conjunction to introduce a subordinate clause: It’s so long since I saw them. (since + clause) / Lenny had slept most of the way since leaving Texas. (since + clause) "For" In English, we use ...
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Participles Practice Participles PracticePractice A: Look at the underlined word in each sentence. Is it being used as a participle adjective or a verb?1. When I was a child, history bored me. [participle verb] WRONG [verb]2. That’s an in...
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Reported speech Reported speech When we want to report what another person has said, we usually do not use the speaker’s exact words (direct speech), but reported (indirect) speech. When transforming statements, check whe...
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Grammar - created from Mind Map PARTS OF SPEECH PARTS OF A SENTENCE PHRASES
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Other issues The superlative grade of adjectives is that grad of an adjective hat is of the highest level. It is normally used in comparisions of three or more entites There are two ways to form the superlative form of 1. If the a...
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Adverbs and Adverbials: Difference Explained The term adverb refers to a word class to which words like slowly, here, now etc belong . Adverbials , on the contrary, is a functional label , covering all the syntactic units performing the same function as single-w...
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Adverbs and Adverbials: Difference Explained The term adverb refers to a word class to which words like slowly, here, now etc belong . Adverbials , on the contrary, is a functional label , covering all the syntactic units performing the same function as single-w...
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Indirect questions - created from Mind Map WH questions Yes/No questions Uses
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Grammar and Word Classes - created from Mind Map nouns Nouns Verbs
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MODAL VERBS - creado desde un Mapa Mental PRESENT PAST ABILITY
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Academic Writing Skills Introduction Parts of Speech Noun: a naming word used for - - the personal capitalised name of someone or something (e.g. Ian, Waterloo) - a feeling or state of being (e.g. love, dead) - a name given to a group with s...
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Notes from Live Session (18.02.21) Comma Splice Notes Too often students make this serious grammatical error. It happens especially in lengthier pieces of writing such as the friendly letter. This error makes your writing choppy and at times difficult ...
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lesson 4 EXPRESSIONS OF QUANTITY ( resumo)A FEW: countable There are a few problems with the apartmentA LITTLE: uncountableI take a little sugar in my cofee.FEWER : countableI have fewer projects to work on, than you have.LESS...
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Grammar 1A (QUESTION FORMATION / INDIRECT QUESTIONS) QUESTION FORMATION V aux/mod + Sub + V ppal, e.g. Ahould we buy her a present? Negative questions to show surprise or when we spect somebody to agree with us, e.g. Why didn't like the film? / Isn't a nice place? If a ...
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PARTS OF SPEECH - creado desde un Mapa Mental NOUN PRONOUN ADJECTIVE
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QUANTIFIERS - creado desde un Mapa Mental MANY MUCH SOME
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phrases and Clause - creado desde un Mapa Mental phrases Clauses Phrases
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Untitled Paticiple Clauses There is not very much difference in meaning between these two pairs of sentences. Sometimes we can use an -ing or past participleclause with similar meanings, as here, although ...
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Too and enough Too and enough 1.Too comes before adjectives and adverbs: It's too hot to wear that coat. I was driving too fast. 2. Too may also come before nouns when it is used with the expressions too much and too many. a. Too mu...
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COMPARE - created from Mind Map COMPARISION ADJETIVES Sirven para comparar características o cualidades entre objetos,personas o animales. SUPERLATIVE ADJETIVES para comparar un sustantivo con respecto a un grupo, y enfatizar su cualidad de superior...
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Reported Speech Reported or Indirect Speech We use reported/indirect speech and direct speech to relate what a person has said. Direct speech: He said, 'I have lost my umbrella.' Remarks thus repeated are plac...
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Let & allow Form (allow in passive) Subject + to be + allowed (past participle)For more about the passive voice, take a look the Grammar Reference, as well as hereand here. Take note While you're here, here's another useful tip. ...
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1_Parts of Speech - created from Mind Map Defintion What are Parts of Speech? There are eight major parts of speech used in the English Language which in nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections.
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GRAMMAR - creado desde un Mapa Mental CATEGORIES OPEN CLASSES OR LEXICAL CLOSED CLASSES OR FUNCTIONAL OR GRAMMATICAL
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Be polite, stop saying direct questions Notice how we use these phrases to make questions more polite: Do you know... Could you tell me... Would you mind... Is there any chance... 1) Direct: Where is the cafe?Indirect: Do you know where the cafe is?2) Direc...
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0, 1st & 2nd CONDITIONALS - creado desde un Mapa Mental Structures of a conditional sentence: If - clause + main clause Zero conditional use present tense in both clauses First conditional use present simple (If - clause) and future tense (main clause)