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COURSE OVERVIEW

Expressions that do not mean what their individual words suggest are known as idioms, such as "raining cats and dogs" which means heavy rain. A non-finite clause contains a non-finite verb and does not indicate tense, like "

COURSE OVERVIEW

Grammar IV

phrases

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.

Non-finite clauses

A non-finite clause is a subordinate clause that has only a non-finite verb.

Non finite verbs

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.


Verbal noun
Past participles
Gerund
Infinitive

Finite verbs

A finite verb is a verb that indicates tenses.


Example: She lives in chillan


Example: He went to the city to find work.


Example: My mother bakes tasty cookies.

Clauses

collocation types

A collocation is a pair or group of words that are often together.

Adverbs and adjectives
Verb and adverb
Verb and an expression with preposition
Adjective and noun
Nouns and adverbs
noun and noun
Collocationtypes and examples

Compound

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


Examples:


worksheet

post office

shoelaces

sometimes

cannot

teapot

basketball

Idioms

Idiom: It is a fixed group of words that mean something different to the meaning of the individual words.


Examples:


  1. It is raining cats and dogs: It is rainining a lot.
  2. to pass the buck: to ship responsibility or blame onto other people.
  3. Turn a blind eye: you know people might be doing something wrong, but you ignore it.

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INFORMAL FORMAL


He went down with a fever. He contracted a fever


2 .The cost of living went up . The cost of living increased.


3 . She caught on very quickly. She understood very quickly.

Formal
Informal

Verbs

Subjunctive

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.

Past Subjuntive
Present subjunctive

Formulaic Subjunctive

Mandative Subjunctive

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

Unreal time and Subjunctive

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.

Imperative

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 Indicative

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?