Genre/Topic: Tense
What is the difference in use of the simple past tense and the past perfect tense? What tense do we use with ‘already’ and ‘just’? When we give an account of the sequence of past events, in which tense do we write the event that occurred first? What about the event that happened later on? […]
Genre/Topic: Clauses, Verbs
How do we report imperative sentences? Can we use other reporting verbs as well?
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Genre/Topic: Complements, Verbs
What is the complement? What is the linking verb? Do we use ‘to be’ after ‘seem’ and ‘appear’? Can we use ‘get’ instead of ‘become’ in all sentences? What linking verbs express gradual change? What verbs express the opposite?
Genre/Topic: Adjectives
Can all adjectives be used in front of the nouns they describe? Can all adjectives be used as complements? How do we place the adjectives if we are using more than one of them before a noun?
Genre/Topic: Adverbial clauses, Clauses, Prepositions
Can we use ‘for’, ‘in that’, ‘in as much as’ to give reasons? For what purpose do we use the prepositions ‘because of’, ‘due to’ and ‘owing to’? Are ‘because of’, ‘due to’ and ‘owing to’ followed by a noun/noun phrase or a clause? Can we also use ‘with’ to give reasoning?
Genre/Topic: Reported speech, Verbs
What is the direct speech? What is the indirect speech? What are reporting verbs? Do we change the pronouns when changing a sentence from direct to indirect? Are other expressions changed too?
Genre/Topic: Adverbial clauses, Clauses
For what purpose do we use ‘in order/so as+ to infinitive’? Instead of ‘in order/so as+ to infinitive’, can we simply use the ‘to infinitive’? How do we form negatives in ‘so as/in order’? What is the difference in use of ‘for + noun’ and ‘so..that’?
