Present Simple
e.g. live, work, dance
sigmal words-> never, often, always, every day
1.Habits
2.Facts
3.Permanent Situations
4.stative verbs
5.Future events on a timetable
6.Instructions and headlines
7.Conditional 0 and 1 (likely to happen)
Present Perfect Simple
e.g. have/has repaired/ written
-been for passiv
signal words-> never, ever, already, since, recently, in the past few years
1.Actions happening until now, not finished
2.Past action with present result
3.Announcements
Past Simple
e.g. met/ caught/ washed
-was for passiv
signal words->ago, when, recently, yesterday, it is high time
1.Finished action in the past (short duration)
2.past action in chronological order
3.Conditional 2: hypothetical (if I had... I would...)
Past Perfect Simple
e.g. had left/ had drunk
-been for passiv
signal words-> already, never, once, by 1999, last week, ago, before
1.event completed before antoher
2.historical event
3.conditional 3: impossible (If i had... I would have...)
Present Progressive
e.g. working/ living
signal words->currently, while, at the moment
1.now, temporary situations
2.used to imply annoyance
3.background story
4.planned future event starting now
Present Perfect Progressive
e.g. have/ has been living/working
signal words-> all day, since, since then, for, the whole day
1.temporary action & action in progress till now
2.how long sth has been happening
Past Progressive
e.g. was doing/ wearing
signal words-> while, at that moment, during, constantly, still
1.sth happend before & after sth
2.parallel/ interrupted action in the past
3.temporary duration (completed)
Past Perfect Progressive
e.g. had been raining
signal words-> how long, since, for, for years, for quiet some time
1.long events which took place before another action in the past
Will Future
Will+ infinitive
signal words-> t think, probably, likely
1.Spontaneous decisions
2.predictions
3.Facts in the future
4.promises & threats
Going to-future
be going to+ infinitive
1.Decisions already made before speaking
2.Predictions based on evidence (it is going to rain)
3.Intentions (i am going to meet sb tomorrow)
Prepositions
to, about, in, at, from, into, on , for, of, by, with
Infinitive
1.after auxiliary or do
2.express a persons purpose
3.desire, opportunity, expectation
-specific preference (i like to drink my tea hot)
Verbs of Perception
see, hear, feel, smell, taste, observe, watch, sense
-infinitive (without to) when action conplete
-ing when action is in progress
Words with article
Rivers, German-language mountains, roads or streets named after places, parliaments, museums, galleries, banks, hotels, parts of towns, Organizations with individual letters (EU, UN), musical instruments, dances, Die Vergangenheit, Die Gegenwart, Die Zukunft, some countries
Words with NO article
abstract things (love, freedom, democracy, literature), Mountains, lakes, lochs, cathedrals, churches, palaches, castles, stations, airports, organizations like Nato, die meisten= most
Adjectives
opinion-size-age-shape-color-origin-material
synthetic: one syllabel or ending yowle
-> -er/ -est (bluest)
words ending with consonant ->doubling
analytic: more syllabels
-> more/most
e.g. seldom, often, common, gorgeous, pleasant, lively
in a... way/manner
disyllable: both possible
e.g.stupid, clever, cowardly, happy, polite, quiet
position: before noun more permanent (the visible stars), afzer noun more temporare (the stars visible)
some adjectives meaning change depending on position
e.g. present before = gegenwärtig/ derzeitig
present after = anwesend
Adverbs
positions:
Front (before subject) = Connectors or Sentence Advervs
Mid (before main verb) =Focus Adverb (also), Frequency, Intensifier
End (after main verb) = Manner, Place, Time, Frequency
Some adverbs can have both endings:
water runs deep = not shallow
opinion is deeply = very
work hard =hard work
work hardly = almost not working
adjectives ending in -ic by adding -ally
-> exception: publicly
Relative clause
defining: essentiell information
-no comma
-that, who(m), which, whoses, why, where, when
-contact clauses possible sometimes
non-defining: additional information
-comma!
-who(m), which, whose, where, when
-coordinate clause sometimes
Adjectival clause
essentiell:
use infinitive when:
1.modal auxiliary
2.will future
3.superlative or ordinal number
use present participle when:
1.progressive
2.simple and indefinitier acendent
non-essentiell:
use present participle when:
1.simple or progressive
Adverbial clause
Time: -ing
Reason: -ing
Result: so+ adjective+ as to + verb
Purpose: infinitive/ in order to
Concession: Despite/ In spite of +Gerund
Being used when: Because, after prepositions, passive progressive
Noun clauses
-never use comma
-when you can replace that by which it is a adjectival clause
-infinitive with will, should, could
-other verbs: Gerund
-delte 'the fact that' or 'because'
-some adjectives = use preposition+Gerund or to infinitive
-verbs of perception= to be/ to have
Verbs Group 3 Gerund or Infinitive
Gerund= past
infinitive= future/ now
forgotten taking out the trash -> forgit if you have done it in the past
forgot to take out the trash -> forgot to take you the trash in now