REVISION OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR

FIRST TERM
PREPOSITIONS OF TIME AND PLACE PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS QUESTIONS WITH AND WITHOUT AUXILIARIES

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE
IN
Countries and Cities: Buildings: Rooms: Closed spaces: In France, in NY In a shop, in a supermarket In the living room In a garden, in a car

ON

A Surface:

Transport:

On a shelf, on the wall On a plate, on the table On a balcony On a bike, on a bus, on a plane

AT

At the bus station, at home, at the door, at the top At work, at school, at university At the end of At a party

PREPOSITIONS OF TIME
IN
Months: Years: Seasons: Times of day: In March, in August In 1978, in 1066, in 2009 In spring, in summer In the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening

ON

Dates: Days:

On July 4th On Monday, On Christmas Day, on Valentines Day

At half past ten, at 8:40 At Christmas, Easter At night At the weekend

AT

Times: Festival periods:

PAST CONTINUOUS

The past continuous tense is used to describe an action in progress at a specific moment in the past.

Subject WAS / WERE I He She It We You They was was

-ING FORM singing singing

were

singing

PAST CONTINUOUS
AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE YES/NO QUESTIONS

I was dancing
You were eating He was sleeping She was reading

I wasnt dancing
You werent eating He wasnt sleeping She wasnt reading

Was I dancing?
Were you eating? Was he sleeping? Was she reading?

It was running
We were walking

It wasnt running
We werent walking

Was it running?
Were we walking?

They were studying

They werent studying

Were they studying?

RULES
Verb ending in... consonant + vowel + consonant vowel + consonant + E How to make the -ING form Double the consonant, then add ING Remove E, then add ING Examples swim - swimming hit - hitting get getting come- coming lose - losing live living

[anything else]

Add ING

say - saying go - going walk - walking

PAST SIMPLE

We use the past simple to talk about finished actions in the past. The past simple is the same for all persons. Use the infinitive after Did and didnt for negatives.

I He She

stayed went

in a hotel to the beach

We You They Did you

didnt do our homework

go

on holiday?

PAST SIMPLE OR CONTINOUS?

Use the past simple for a completed action.

Use the past continuous for an action in progress.

I was sitting at home when the phone rang.
When I took the photo, the man was cooking some fish.

QUESTIONS WITH OR WITHOUT AUXILIARIES

QUESTIONS WITH AN AUXILIARY

QUESTION AUXILIARY
What music Who do did

SUBJECT
you he

INFINITIVE
listen to? go with?

To make questions in the past and present simple, we normally use the auxiliary verbs do / does / did + the infinitive. The normal order for questions in the present and past is QUASI.

QUESTIONS WITH OR WITHOUT AUXILIARIES

QUESTIONS WITHOUT AN AUXILIARY

SUBJECT
What Who

VERB
happened wrote at the weekend? Romeo and Juliet?

When the question word (Who, What, Which, How many?) is the subject of the verb in the question, we do not use an auxiliary (do, does, did) and the verb is in the third person.