Grammar IV

Indicative mood expresses statements of facts or questions.Example: The Parliament passed the Law dealing with Abortion.Example2: He settled in Brazil for part of his holidays.Example 3: Are you going to travel next summer?

The Imperative mood expresses direct requests or commands.Example 1: Keep the sound of music down.Example 2: Take out your your notebook.Example 3: Stand up.

The subjunctive mood expresses wishes, conditions contrary to facts, and requests or commands.Example 1: If I were you ,I would not go out tonight.Example 2: It is time you paid the rent.

Specific words or expressions are generally used such as:It´s time, it ´shigh time. These are followed by past simple or past continuous. Example: It´s time you paid de rent.Wish, to express wishes in present or future.Would is used tomake someone or something else to change. Example: I wish he would stop crying all the time.I´d rather / prefer. They are followed by past verb forms.Example: I rather you did not come to my party.I´d rather / I´d sooner are used with normal verb forms when comparing nouns or phrases.Example: I rather eat a sandwich than pasta.As if, as though are used for real and unreal situations.

Example: It is important for them be here tomorrow at 7:00.

INFORMAL FORMALHe went down with a fever. He contracted a fever2 .The cost of living went up . The cost of living increased.3 . She caught on very quickly. She understood very quickly.

Idiom: It is a fixed group of words that mean something different to the meaning of the individual words.Examples:It is raining cats and dogs: It is rainining a lot.to pass the buck: to ship responsibility or blame onto other people.Turn a blind eye: you know people might be doing something wrong, but you ignore it.

Compounds are unit of meaning formed with two or more words separated with hyphen or written as one.Examples:worksheetpost officeshoelacessometimescannotteapotbasketball

A finite verb is a verb that indicates tenses.Example: She lives in chillanExample: He went to the city to find work.Example: My mother bakes tasty cookies.

A non finite verb does not indicate a tense.In fact, Infinitive, participles, past participles and verbal nouns are non-finite verbs.1-Example: To play soccer ,you need boots.2 - Example: Playing chess is difficult.3 - Example: Annoyed, he went back home.4 - Example: Running is a nice sport.5 - The decision made by him was overruled.

A Phrase is a group of related words that does not contain a subject and a verb.Example: Gone to santiago, i heard of the robbery.A clause is a group of related words that contains a subject and a verb.Example: He failed because he did not study.