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Contents...
English grammar drills part 2 pps
... writing out the exercises.
English Grammar Drills is organized into three parts: Part 1 covers noun phrases, the fi rst of
the two fundamental building blocks of English grammar. Noun phrases function ... achiev-
ing a native-like command of English grammar. While the book covers most areas of English
grammar, it has a heavy concentration on those aspects of grammar that h...
English grammar drills part 3 doc
... problem with mouses and rats.
3. She and her husband run the farm by themselfes, so it is a lot of work for them.
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Nouns 7
Singular Plural
fl ... form /s/ /z/
fl ame fl ames
1. three
2. trick
3. stool
4. history
5. wall
6. rake
7. play
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6 Noun Phrases
/k/ back-ba...
English grammar drills part 4 pdf
... wives wives’
1. dog
2. horse
3. tree
4. lady
5. fox
6. tooth
7. play
8. worker
9. shelf
10. man
11. studio
12. place
13. fl y
14. child
15. woman
The pronunciation ... possessive: boys’
Remember, the y is part of the spelling of the vowel and therefore nothing happens to it.
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14 Noun Phrases
Of course the...
English grammar drills part 5 doc
... hit of the party.
cupcakes were the hit of the party.
Predicate adjective: The cupcakes were .
The cupcakes were .
True adjective: .
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Adjectives ... (the base form), but
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Adjectives 25
13. physical
14. strange
15. probable
16. recent
17. available
18. developed
19. sha...
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... Sometimes it is surprising what counts in English as normal expectations. Perhaps the odd-
est examples are the names of places and things that are expected in particular environments.
For example, ... for the offi ce.
6. We need to pick topic that everyone will identify with.
7. engineer employed by a subcontractor fi led a complaint.
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... result, traffi c is just awful.
They were renting apartment in Santa Monica, really nice town on
beach about twenty miles from center of city. apartment building
they lived in even had swimming ... about all birds, not any particular group of birds. The
presence of the indefi nite article some in the second sentence signals that the speaker is talking
only about one particular group of bird...
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... readers.
24. I never get clear answer from personnel department.
25. We got real shock when contractor gave us fi nal bill.
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Articles 41
Dogs ... required.
15. When I travel overseas, sleep becomes big problem for me.
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... friends
before next weekend
Preposition Pronoun object
with...
English grammar drills part 13 docx
... phrases
Gerunds are the present participle forms of verbs. Present participles are formed by adding
-ing to the base (or dictionary) forms of verbs. Present participles are mostly regular. The ... nitives
Gerunds and infi nitives are verb forms used as nouns. (Infi nitives can also be used as other
parts of speech, but in this chapter we will deal only with infi nitives used as nouns.) Here ar...
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... meetings.
10. The defendant denied he had ever been to Chicago.
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Noun Clauses 99
Wh- clauses
The second type of noun clause always begins with ... the letters wh Here are the most
common wh- words that begin noun clauses, classifi ed by their parts of speech:
NOUNS
what whatever
which whichever
who whoever
whom whomever
whose
ADVERB...
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... unusual about the grammar of separable phrasal verbs is that the adverb part of the
verb compound can be moved to a position following the direct object, breaking the verb com-
pound apart:
The CEO ... verb stem and an adverb. (The
terminology for phrasal verbs is unsettled. Many books use the term particle rather than adverb
or preposition. The differences in terminology are not very...
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... next.
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234 Sentences
10. They plan to stay in Los Angeles how long.
The way information questions in English are formed differs in two ... However, as you know, English also requires that the subject and verb be inverted
and that we insert do if there is no other suitable helping verb to be the tense-carrying verb. Thus
Engl...
English grammar drills part 37 doc
... present participle ϭ progressive
be ϩ past participle ϭ passive
A sentence can even be both progressive and passive so long as it meets the requirements: be ϩ
present participle (Pres Part) for ... and be ϩ past participle (Past Part) for the passive.
Here is an example of a sentence with both:
The job is being contracted out to a fi rm in Singapore.
be ϩ Pres Part be ϩ Past Part
In o...
English grammar drills part 38 doc
... most complicated operations in English
grammar.
Let us begin by looking closely at how we change the active sentence “John saw Mary” into its
passive counterpart, “Mary was seen by John.” ... understand
how to convert a passive sentence into its counterpart active form, and vice versa, how to con-
vert an active sentence into its counterpart passive form. Unfortunately this conversion...
English grammar drills part 44 docx
... salmons, salmon
10. lifes
, lives
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294 English Grammar Drills
Exercise 16.35 (Chapter 15: Direct and indirect quotation)
Convert the following ... c is just awful.
They were renting an apartment in Santa Monica, a really nice town on the beach about
twenty miles from the center of the city. The apartment building they lived in even...
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