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| Countable (table) Uncountable (money) Proper (Paul, Christmas) |
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| Definite (the) Indefinite (a -consonant- or an -vowel- ) |
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| Express action or state (regular and irregular) |
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| Tells sth about a noun (allows degrees of comparison) |
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Refers to verb/adjective/adverb
example: quickly, carefully, terribly |
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| Often indicate place, time or direction (e.g. in, into, on, at, from, of) |
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Personal (subject/object) – I, you, she, he, it, we, you, they, him, us, them
Possessive (expresses possession) – My, your, her, his, its, our, your, their
Demonstrative (point at sth) – This, that, these, those
Interrogative (questions) – Who, what, which
Relative (refers to preceding persons or things) – Who, which, what
Indefinite (refers to indefinite persons or things) – Some, any, each, every, all
Reflexive (pronouns ending in –self) – Myself, yourself, herself |
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| Subject – Predicator – Indirect object – Direct object (Onderwerp – Gezegde – Meewerkend voorwerp – Lijdend voorwerp) |
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| Adverbials of definite time |
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Front or end position
(yesterday, tomorrow, 2 years ago) |
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| Adverbials of indefinite time |
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Before the verb when there’s one, After the first verb when there are more, After a form of be, In interrogative sentences placed after the subject
(rarely, never, often) |
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| Generally in end position |
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| Adverbials of time + place |
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| Place precedes adverbial of time |
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| Usually end position or immediately before the (last) verb, Well and Badly always have end position |
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| Usually put before the verb it refers to |
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| (Negative adverbials put in front for emphasis, subject and predicator are inverted) |
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| Immediately/Often can have three positions |
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| add -s: books/photos/tables/tattoos |
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| add -es: buses/fishes/boxes (Both for Nouns and Verbs) |
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| usually add -s (Euros/photos) sometimes add -es (cargoes/tomatoes) no rule |
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| when preceded by consonant -y becomes -ie (carry/carries), when preceded by a vowel -y is unchanged (stay/stays/stayed) |
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| Geographical names hyphens? |
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| No hyphens in geographical names |
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| one stressed syllable – consonant is doubled |
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| stress on last syllable – consonant is doubled |
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| final consonant preceded by two vowels – no doubling |
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| no stress on last syllable – no doubling |
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| in British English the -l is doubled |
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| no doubling when -l is preceded by two vowels (dialling = exception) |
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| ending in -e: -e is omitted |
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| ending in -ie: turns into -y + -in |
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| Simple: I work, Continuous: I am working |
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| Simple: I worked, Continuous: I was working |
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| Simple: I have worked, Continuous: I have been working |
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| Simple: I had worked, Continuous: I had been working |
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| Simple: I will work, Continuous: I will be working |
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| Simple: I would work, Continuous: I would be working |
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