Synonimus

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If you have any problems that you would like to report, please go to the "Contact us" link, on your course page and send a message directly to English First.

When you leave the class and grade. That is your teachers grading, and is not sent; in anyway, to English First.

If you grade your teacher on the problems, they cannot be fixed. The teachers report the problems they experience, but you need to report the problems you experience.

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when you speak English. It is very different to writing English.

You SPEAK in clauses.

SUBJECT with a VERB - PREDICATE

subject: what you are talking about:

When I was walking down the road...

At work I ...

The other day ...

PREDICATE: rest of the sentence: clause/phrase by clause

When I was walking down the road...I saw my friend, When she saw me, she got very excited

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The other day, I went to the shop. When I got there, I saw they ran out of milk, so I had to go to another shop.

>>>>>>***** every sentence is one idea, only when you change the subject, do you start a new sentence.

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do not copy the sentence structure of a question!

***build up your answer.. bit by bit= this helps get rid of errors and creates a better, more logical fluency!!!

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this-singular = please move his chair

these-plural = please move these chairs

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I like to eat - I like to swim - add preposition "to" before the verb (infinite)

I like eating - I like swimming - add suffix "ing" and have no preposition (continuous)

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what - thing- what is that?

who - person-who is that?

when- time- when does the meeting start?

where- place- where do you live?

why- reason- why did you eat the apple?

how- tell me more- how are you?

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Teacher vocab:

* compulsary: have to answer/do it

* not compulsary: do not have to answer/do it

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Prepositions: Short words that show the relationship between the objects which the words express. Nouns and pronouns most often follow prepositions. Examples of prepositions include: about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, at before, behind, below, beneath, beside(s), between, beyond, but, by, concerning, down, during except, for, from, in(to), like, of, off, on, over, past, since, through(out), toward, under(neath), until, unto, up, with, within, without.

Participles: Present and past participles are derived from the verb and act as a verb form, adjective or noun. Present participles are formed by adding -ing to the verb, while past participles are formed by adding -ed to regular verbs. Present participles imply a continuance of action, state or being. She is reading the book. Past participles imply the completion of an action, state or being. I have loved. Participles can also act as adjectives when placed before nouns. He is a reading man.

Rule

A preposition is followed by a "noun". It is never followed by a verb.

By "noun" we include:

•noun (dog, money, love)

•proper noun (name) (Bangkok, Mary)

•pronoun (you, him, us)

•noun group (my first job)

•gerund (swimming)

Here are some examples:

Subject + verb preposition "noun"

The food is on the table.

She lives in Japan.

Tara is looking for you.

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Simple Past and Present tenses of Regular and Irregular Verbs

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to be (irregular)

I am I was

we are we were

you are you were

he, she, it is he, she, it was

they are they were

to have (irregular)

I have I had

we have we had

you have you had

you have you had

he, she, it has he, she, it had

they have they had

to play (regular)

I play I played

we play we played

you

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