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GRAMMAR TABLE OF CONTENTS

ADJECTIVES

as + adjective + as comparative + than comparatives & superlatives comparisons of quantity - showing no difference comparisons of quantity - menu comparisons of quantity - showing difference form - adjectives function irregular comparatives & superlatives main menu not as + adjective + as order the + superlative

ADVERBS

certainty comparative form degree - enough,very,too,extremely,almost etc form - adverb function interrogative - why,where,how,when main menu manner menu place relative adverbs - which,what,whose time viewpoint, commenting

DETERMINERS

defining words - which,whose demonstratives - this,that,these,those etc difference words - other,another distributives - all, both, half distributives - each, every, either, neither distributives - menu exceptions to using the definite article menu - function and class menu - quantifiers possessives pre-determiners quantifiers 1 - determiners,a few,few,a little,little quantifiers 2 - many,much,more,most etc. quantifiers 3 - how,much,many,few,lot etc. quantifiers 4 - numbers quantifiers 5 - some and any quantifiers 6 - something,somebody,someone etc. quantifiers 7 - enough question words - which,what,whose the definite article the indefinite article the,a,an

DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

changes of time and place reference introduction reporting hopes and intentions reporting orders, requests, suggestions reporting questions summary of reporting verbs tense changes

-ING FORM

as present participle gerund or infinitive? gerund/infinitive - difference in meaning gerunds introduction verbs followed by gerund

NOUNS

compound nouns countable & uncountable menu - nouns

nationalities noun gender plurals use of capital letters

PASSIVE

active/passive equivalents form -past function get/have something done, x needs doing

POSSESSIVE WITH 'S AND '

possessive

RELATIVE CLAUSES

defining relative clauses introduction non-defining relative clauses prepositions in relative clauses

THE INFINITIVE

form, with or without 'to' function infinitive after question words negative infinitive other forms of infinitive verbs + infinitive with/without noun verbs followed by infinitive verbs followed by noun + infinitive zero infinitive

TO GET

examples get,got,getting

VERBS AND VERB TENSES

future continuous future forms - introduction future forms - simple future future perfect future perfect continuous future with 'going to' if sentences with conditional perfect continuous if sentences with if + past,would,present condtional if sentences with if,condtional tenses if sentences with if+not,unless,verbs if sentences with mixed conditionals if sentences with perfect conditional,if + past perfect if sentences with wish,would rather,suppose,what if,if only if setences with present continuous conditional menu / introduction other forms of future past continuous past perfect past perfect continuous present continuous present continuous for future events present perfect 1 present perfect 2 present perfect 3 present perfect 4 present perfect continous simple past simple present simple present for future events summary type 1 conditional zero conditional