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English grammar drills part 4 pdf
... going to focus solely on how English forms the possessive Before Shakespeare’s time the possessive form of nouns was spelled exactly the same as the plural form: with an -s By Shakespeare’s time, ... little confusing to think of the -’s as just the “singular possessive.” The problem with this definition arises with the possessive forms of irregular nouns that become plural by changing their ... you can see, -’s is used with these plural possessive nouns, not -s’ This is not really an exception to the general rule At first glance, we might think we should use -s’ with these irregular nouns...
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English grammar drills part 9 pdf
... modify Here are some examples with the noun being modified underlined and the adjective clause in italics: The book that I need is not in the library I answered all of the questions that I could The ... adjective clauses The internal structure of adjective clauses in English, however, is unusually complicated All adjective clauses must begin with a special pronoun called a relative pronoun (The term ... clauses: The book that I need is not in the library It is not in the library I answered all of the questions that I could I answered all of them The editorial, which had appeared in the Times, was...
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English grammar drills part 12 pdf
... One way is to replace he with the compound he or she: Whenever a person makes an investment, he or she should minimize sales commissions The other way is to replace he with the plural pronoun ... case (subject, object, or possessive) The following chart represents all the personal pronouns, with form and person along the left axis of the chart and number across the top: PERSONAL PRONOUNS ... among pronouns The ability of third-person pronouns to substitute for noun phrases is not shared with first- and second-person pronouns, which not replace anything The first-person pronouns (I, me,...
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English grammar drills part 14 pdf
... used in many ways, but in this chapter we are only concerned with infinitives used as nouns An infinitive phrase is an infinitive together with all of its modifiers and/or complements The difference ... expected to win the game easily From now on we will use the term infinitive phrase for infinitives with or without modifiers and/or complements Infinitive phrases can play three of the basic four noun ... answer the reporters’ questions it My biggest concern was to find a new job as soon as possible Exercise 6.4 Underline the infinitive phrases in the following sentences Confirm your answers by replacing...
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English grammar drills part 22 pdf
... boxes Exercise 9.5 Replace one of the italicized base-form verbs with the future perfect Replace the other italicized base-form verb with either the present or present perfect, as appropriate Verb ... the present time For example, if someone were to go the window and say, “It’s raining,” we know without being told that the speaker is talking about what is happening right now The progressive ... John is driving a car X John is owning a car The meanings of stative verbs make them incompatible with the progressive tenses, since the progressive tenses always describe action that is in progress...
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English grammar drills part 33 pdf
... Main verbs: In American English, the only main verb that can be used to form yes-no questions is be (am, is, are, was, were) Here are some examples of questions formed with the main verb be: Statement ... grammatical to form yes-no questions by inverting the first verb with the subject, no matter what the first verb was: helping verbs and main verbs alike both inverted with the subjects.) There is ... with the subjects.) There is no standard name in traditional grammar for the verbs in modern English that can be inverted to form yes-no questions The verbs that can be inverted are made up of just...
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English grammar drills part 36 pdf
... know the answer? ⇒ Do not (Don’t) you know the answer? Information questions Who is going with us? ⇒ Who is not (isn’t) going with us? What have we done? ⇒ What have not (haven’t) we done? Why ... from going ahead as planned Given how difficult it is to form both questions and negatives, it is surprisingly easy to form negative questions It is simply a matter of applying the not insertion rule ... first verb No further Questions and Negatives 243 changes are needed, except of course the contraction of the verb ϩ not if that is appropriate Here are some examples: Yes-no questions Can they...
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English grammar drills part 41 pdf
... phrases in the following sentences Confirm your answers by replacing the gerund phrase with it it They feared taking on such a big task 278 English Grammar Drills Building a snowman is a fun winter ... under the noun phrase that you have underlined It The book you asked for finally came in 274 English Grammar Drills I asked the new worker you hired to come to my office The car that he wrecked ... Tom are my father’s best friends Last Monday, the electrical workers went on strike 275 276 English Grammar Drills Aunt Sally is my father’s sister who lives in Canada What you call that strange-looking...
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