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Grammar terms
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when the person or thing doing the action is the main
active
topic of the sentence
the words used to describe people or things; red,
adjectives
small, square
a word that describes where, when, or how something
adverb
happens; quickly, easily, well, fast, very, really
the words a and an (the indefinite article) and the (the
article
definite article)
clause a part of a sentence that has a verb in it
the form of an adjective to say that something is more
comparative
of something
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talking about possible actions and situations, and the
conditional
results of those actions and situations
a word that connects other words or sentences; and,
conjunction
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but, or, because, so
the letters b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y,
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z and their sounds
conversational talking in an informal way
terms countable a noun that we can count or number
pointing out an object or person; this, that, these,
demonstrative
those
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Make your own pocket referring to a noun without describing it; one, ones,
determiner
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following the instructions. formal
talking with a high standard of correctness in an
important or serious situation
Print page 1.
imperative telling, asking, or inviting somebody to do something
Put page 1 back in the indirect speech reporting what someone has said
printer.
infinitive the basic form of the verb
Print page 2 on the other irregular a word that does not have the usual plural or verb forms
side of the paper.
a verb used with another verb to express ability,
Cut along the dotted lines. modal verb possibility, or necessity; can, could, was able to,
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managed to, should, must, have to
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noun the word used to name people or things
You now have your pocket object
the person or thing in a sentence that is affected by
the action
guide to grammar terms to
take with you anywhere. passive
when the person or thing doing the action is not the
subject of the verb
You can use this pocket phrasal verb
a verb joined with an adverb to make a verb with a
new meaning
guide with your copy of
plural the form of a word when there is more than one
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pre-intermediate pocket guide
Grammar terms
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adjectives and pronouns used to indicate ownership;
possessive
my, mine, her, hers, s, of mine
a word used to describe where, when, or how; at, in,
preposition
on, by, for
prepositional a verb joined with a preposition to make a verb with
verb a new meaning
pronoun a word used in place of a noun; I, me, she, him, them, it
a word used to indicate how much/many of
quantifier something there is; all, most, some, a lot of, any, a
few, a little, much, many, none, no
words added to the end of a sentence turning it into
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question tag a question to check what we are saying is true or
correct
question word where, when, what, why, how, which, who, whose
a word used to refer back to the subject, to
reflexive
emphasize that the subject did the action; myself,
pronoun
yourself, himself, ourselves, themselves
regular a word that has the usual plural or verb forms
a word used to identify a person or thing, or to add
relative clause further information; which, that, who, where, when,
whose
reported reporting something that someone else has said
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speech from our own point of view
singular the form of a word when there is only one
subject the person or thing in a sentence that does the action
the form of an adjective to say that something is the
superlative
most of something
uncountable a noun we cannot count or number
vowel the letters a, e, i, o, u and their sounds
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