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Comprehensive Grammar Guide

The document outlines various aspects of English grammar, including nouns, pronouns, determiners, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, connectives, verbs, modals, tenses, verb forms, compound verb patterns, and conditional sentences. It provides a comprehensive overview of grammatical categories and their functions, as well as specific examples of each. Additionally, it covers simple reported speech and its components.

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Comprehensive Grammar Guide

The document outlines various aspects of English grammar, including nouns, pronouns, determiners, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, connectives, verbs, modals, tenses, verb forms, compound verb patterns, and conditional sentences. It provides a comprehensive overview of grammatical categories and their functions, as well as specific examples of each. Additionally, it covers simple reported speech and its components.

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B1 – GRAMMAR

Nouns:
o Singular and plural
o Countable and uncountable nouns
o Abstract nouns
o Compound nouns
o Complex noun phrases
o Saxon genitive

Pronouns:
o Personal: subject, object, possessive
o Reflexive and emphatic
o Demonstrative: this, that, these, those
o Quantitative and indefinite: one, something, some, any…
o Relative: who, which, that, whom, whose

Determiners:
o A + countable nouns
o The + countable/uncountable nouns

Adjectives:
o Colour, size, shape, quality, nationality
o Predicative and attributive
o Cardinal and ordinal numbers
o Possessive: my, your, his, her, etc.
o Demonstrative: this, that, these, those
o Quantitative: some, any, many, much, a few, a lot of…
o Comparative and superlative forms (regular and irregular): as…as, adjective +
enough, too + adjective
o Order of adjectives
o Participles as adjectives
o Compound adjectives
Adverbs:
o Regular and irregular forms
o Manner: quickly, carefully, etc.
o Frequency: often, never, twice a day/month/year, etc.
o Definite time: now, last week, etc.
o Indefinite time: already, just, yet, etc.
o Degree: very, too, rather, etc.
o Place: here, there, etc.
o Direction: left, right, along, etc.
o Sequence: first, next, etc.
o Sentence adverbs: too, either, etc.
o Comparative and superlative forms

Prepositions
o Location: to, on, inside, next to, etc.
o Time: at, in, on, during, etc.
o Direction: to, into, from, etc.
o Instrument: by, with
o Prepositional phrases
o Prepositions preceding nouns and adjective: by car, for sale, etc.
o Prepositions following nouns, adjectives and verbs: advice on, afraid of, laugh
at, etc.
Connectives:
o And, but, or, either…or
o When, while, until, before, after, as soon as, where
o Because, since, as, for
o So that, (in order) to
o If, unless
o Although, while, whereas

Verbs: regular and irregular forms.

Modals:
o Can o Should o Must
o Could o May o Mustn’t
o Would o Might o Need
o Will o Have to o Needn’t
o Shall o Ought to o Used to +
infinitive
Tenses:
o Present simple o Past perfect simple
o Present continuous o Future (going to)
o Present perfect simple o Future (present simple and
o Past simple continuous)
o Past continuous o Future (will-shall)

Verb forms:
o Affirmative, negative and interrogative
o Imperatives
o Infinitives (with and without to) after verbs and adjectives
o Gerunds after verbs and prepositions
o Gerunds as subject and objects
o Passive: present and past simple
o Causative with have/get
o So/nor auxiliaries

Compound verb patterns: phrasal verbs/verbs with prepositions

Conditional sentences:
o Type 0
o Type 1
o Type 2
Simple reported speech: Statements, questions, commands  say, ask, tell.

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