REVIEW
CHAPTER 3: Perfect an Perfect Progressive Tense
CHAPTER 1: Overview of Verb Tense
CHAPTER 8: Pronouns
CHAPTER 6: Subject Verb Agreement
CHAPTER 2: Present and Past; Simple and Progressive
CHAPTER 10: Modals Part 2
CHAPTER 7: Nouns
CHAPTER 5: Review of Ver Tenses:
CHAPTER 4: Future Time
CHAPTER 9: Modals Part 1
The simple tense: expresses events or situations that exist always, usually, habiyually; They exist now, have existed in the past, and probably will exist in the future.
The Progressive Tense: Give the idea that an action is in progress during a particular time.
The perfect tense:All give the idea that one thing happens before another time or event.
The perfect progressive tense: Gives the idea that one event is in progress inmediately before, up to, until another time or event.
Simple Present: Says that something was true in the past, is true in the present and will be true in the future.
Present aparogressive: Expresses an activity that is in progress at the moment of speaking.
Non - Progressive Verbs: They are rarely used in progressive tenses.
Regulas Verbs: Pronunciation of -ed Endings
Simple Past: Indicates that the situation began or enden at a particular time in the past.
Pat Progressive: Is used in both part of a sentence when two actions are in progress simultaneously.
Present Perfect: Is often used with since and for to talk about situations that began in the past and continue up to.
Have and Has in Spoken English: The helping verbs has and have are often reduced following nouns and question words
Present Perect Vs Simple Past: The first is used to talk about past events, and the second one is used when there is an specific mention of time.
Present Perfect Progressive: expresses an activity right now.
Simple Future: Will and be Going To: Express future time and often have essentially the same meaning.
Past Perfect: Expresses an activity that was completed before another activity.
Had in Spoken English: Is often reduced following nouns and question words.
Expressing the Future in Time Clauses: Will and Be going to is not used in time clause.
Future Progressive: Expresses an activity that will be in the progress at a time in the future.
Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive: These two tenses are rarely used compared to the other verb tenses.
The Progressive Tense: Give the idea that an action is in progress during a particular time.
Present aparogressive: Expresses an activity that is in progress at the moment of speaking.
Present Perect Vs Simple Past: The first is used to talk about past events, and the second one is used when there is an specific mention of time.
Expressing the Future in Time Clauses: Will and Be going to is not used in time clause.
Basic subject Verb Agreement: Every and Each are always followed inmediately by singular nouns.
Using Expressinon of Quantity: The verb is determined by the noun.
Using There + Be: Induces the idea that something exists in a particular place.
Some Irregularities: If the noun is changed to a pronoun, the singular pronoun it is used because the noun is singular.
Possessive Nouns: To show Possession, add an apostrophe (´) and -s to a singular noun.
Nouns and Adjectives: When a noun is used as an adjective, It is in its singular form.
Count and Noncount Nouns: This mean you can count, and the second one you cannot use numbers with the word furniture.
Article Usage: Use the when you know or assume that your listener is familiar with the same specific thing or person you are talking about.
Using OF in expressions of Quantity: Of is not used when the noun is nonspecific.
Personal Pronouns: Is used in place of a noun. The noun it refers to is called the antecedent.
Reflexive pronouns: Is used as an object of a verb or preposition.
Forms of Other: Are used as either adjectives or pronouns.
Common expressions with Others: Each other and One another indicate a reciprocal relationship.
Polite Requests with Woul you Mind: Would you mind if I is followed by the simple past.
Polite Requests with I as the subject: Mai I and Could are used to request permission. They are equally polite, but May I sounds more formal.
Basic Modal Introduction: Modal auxiliaries generally express speakers´ attitude.
Advisability; Should, Ought to, Hd better: Should and Ought To both express advisability. Their meaning ranges in strenght from a suggestion to a statement about responsability or duty
Degrees of Certainty: Present Time: Degree of certainty refers to how sure we are - what we think the chances are - that something is true.
Expressing the Future in Time Clauses: Will and Be going to is not used in time clause.
Simple Future: Will and be Going To: Express future time and often have essentially the same meaning.
The simple tense: expresses events or situations that exist always, usually, habiyually; They exist now, have existed in the past, and probably will exist in the future.
Present Time Negative: When used in the negative to show degree of certainty, couldn´t and can´t forcefully express the idea that the speaker believes something impossible.
Past Time: Pat time affirmative and Past Time Negative.
Future Time: The past form of Ough To or Should is used to mean that the speaker spected something that did not occur.
Should and Ought To con be used to express expectations about future events.
Ability: Can: Can is used to express physical abilities. Can is frequently used with verbs of the five senses: see, hear, feel, smell and taste. can is used to express an acquired skill.
Could Vs. Should; Could can be used to make suggestions. Should gives definite advice and is stronger than could.
Common Expressions with Other: Each other and One other indicate a reciprocalrelationship
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