No doubt or without doubt? No or not? Nowadays , these days or today? Open or opened? Opportunity or possibility? Opposite or in front of? Other , others , the other or another? Out or out of? Permit or permission? Person , persons or people? Pick or pick up? Play or game? Politics , political , politician or policy?
Price or prize? Principal or principle? Quiet or quite? Raise or rise? Remember or remind? Right or rightly? Rob or steal? Say or tell? So that or in order that? Sometimes or sometime? Sound or noise? Speak or talk? Such or so? Towards or toward? Wait or wait for? Wake , wake up or awaken? Worth or worthwhile? Noun phrases: dependent words Noun phrases: order Noun phrases: uses Noun phrases: noun phrases and verbs Noun phrases: two noun phrases together.
Pronouns: possessive my , mine , your , yours , etc. Pronouns: reflexive myself , themselves , etc. Pronouns: indefinite - body , - one , - thing , - where Pronouns: one , you , we , they Relative pronouns Questions: interrogative pronouns what , who Someone , somebody , something , somewhere That. Dates Measurements Number Time. Geographical places Names and titles: addressing people Nationalities, languages, countries and regions Place names. Reported speech Reported speech: direct speech Reported speech: indirect speech.
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Past perfect simple or past simple? Past verb forms referring to the present Past: typical errors. Present continuous I am working Present perfect continuous I have been working Present perfect simple I have worked Present perfect simple or present perfect continuous?
Present perfect: typical errors Present simple I work Present simple or present continuous? Present: typical errors Present verb forms referring to the past.
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Hate , like , love and prefer Hear , see , etc. Get passive Have something done Passive: forms Passives with and without an agent Passive: uses Passive: other forms Passive: typical errors. Conditionals Conditionals: if Conditionals: other expressions unless, should, as long as Conditionals: typical errors If only In case of Suppose , supposing and what if Wish. Word classes and phrase classes Word formation Prefixes Suffixes Compounds Abbreviations, initials and acronyms -ish and -y Diminutives - let , - y and mini- Hyphens.
Word order and focus Word order: structures Cleft sentences It was in June we got married. Fronting Inversion No sooner Not only … but also. Relative clauses Relative clauses referring to a whole sentence Relative clauses: defining and non-defining Relative clauses: typical errors.
Neither, neither … nor and not … either Not. Questions: alternative questions Is it black or grey? Questions: two-step questions Questions: typical errors Questions: wh- questions Questions: yes-no questions Are you feeling cold? Questions: follow-up questions Questions: echo and checking questions Questions: short forms.
My word lists. Tell us about this example sentence:. The word in the example sentence does not match the entry word. Not quite! Which letters are missing? The apostrophe should go in the space where the missing letters belong.
That's right! Y'all is a contraction of you all. The missing letters are ou , so the apostrophe goes in their place — right after the y. In English, there are a fairly small number of contractions, and they're all made out of common words. Here are some of the contractions you'll see the most:. You might have noticed that the word won't is a little different from the other contractions. It means will not , even though the word will isn't there. This is because won't is based on a much older form of the word will.
Even though the word changed, the contraction stayed the same! If it were normal like "could not" and "have not" it would be shortened to "willn't" instead of "won't. And, like most things grammar related, the answer goes back centuries. Recently, the folks at Reader's Digest were kind enough to break it all down for us. It turns out that in Old English the verb willan which meant to wish or will had two forms: wil for the present tense and wold for the past tense.
Eventually, pronunciation evolved from wool to wel to woll to ool.
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