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Common Adjectives Table
Published on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 in Grammar
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The use of used to do is explained here. However, used to has another meaning, it can be used as an adjective and we use it to talk about things that have become familiar, and are no longer strange or new.
Used to usually comes after verbs such as be, get or become.- After a while you get used to the noise.
- She will become used to the smell.
- I was used to the web site.
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Superlative
Published on Sunday, May 22, 2011 in Grammar
The superlative is used to say what thing or person has the most of a particular quality within a group or of its kind. Superlative adjectives normally come before any other adjectives.
| Form | Rule | For example |
|---|---|---|
| Words of one syllable ending in 'e'. | Add -st to the end of the word. | wide - widest |
| Words of one syllable, with one vowel and one consonant at the end. | Double the consonant and add -est to the end of the word. | big - biggest |
| Words of one syllable, with more than one vowel or more than one consonant at the end. | Add - est to the end of the word. | high - highest |
| Words of two syllables, ending in 'y'. | Change 'y' to 'i', and add -est to the end of the word. | happy - happiest |
| Words of two syllables or more, not ending in 'y'. | Place 'the most' before the adjective. | beautiful - the most beautiful |
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Comparison
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When we compare two things or people we look at what makes them different from each other.
For example:
Tall / Short
The man on the left is taller than the man on the right.
The man on the right is shorter than the man on the left.
The man on the right is shorter than the man on the left.
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Possesive adjectives are used to show ownership or possession.
| Subject pronoun | Possessive adjective |
|---|---|
| I | my |
| you | your |
| he | his |
| she | her |
| it | its |
| we | our |
| they | their |
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Adjectives
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Adjectives describe or give information about nouns or pronouns.
For example:-
The grey dog barked. (The adjective grey describes the noun "dog".)
The good news is that the form of an adjective does not change. It does not matter if the noun being modified is male or female, singular or plural, subject or object.
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Passive Voice
Published on Friday, May 20, 2011 in Grammar
Bandingkan kalimat-kalimat berikut:
- Aktif : Susi mengetik surat ini kemarin
- Pasif : Surat ini diketik oleh Susi kemarin
- Aktif : Kucingku membunuh seekor tikus
- Pasif : Seekor tikus dibunuh oleh kucingku
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The Tenses
Published on Sunday, April 24, 2011 in Grammar
Time can be split into three periods The Present (what you are doing),The Past (what you did) and The Future (what you are going to do).
The tenses we use to show what time we are talking about are split into the Simple, Continuous and Perfect tenses.
In English we use two tenses to talk about the present and six tenses to talk about the past. There are several ways to talk about the future some of which use the present tenses, these are:
PresentSimple Present Present Continuous PastSimple Past Past Continuous Present Perfect Simple Present Perfect Continuous Past Perfect Simple Past Perfect Continuous FutureUsing the Simple Present Using the Present Continuous Using the Present Perfect Simple Using the Present Perfect Continuous Using going to Using shall/will Simple TensesThe simple tenses are used to show permanent characteristics of people and events or what happens regularly, habitually or in a single completed action.
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Auxiliary Verbs
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Auxiliary verbs are used together with a main verb to give grammatical information and therefore add extra meaning to a sentence. Information that is not given by the main verb.
They are used to form the passive voice.
They are used to form the continuous tense.
They are used to form the perfect tense.
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Regular and Irregular Verbs
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Regular Verbs Simple Past / Past Participle Spelling Rules
The simple past tense is formed by adding -ed to the end of the verb. However there are several rules depending on the spelling of the verb, these are:-If the base of the verb ends in:-
- -e only add -d (raid - raided)
- a consonant plus -y the y is turned into -ied (study - studied / try - tried)
- -c add -ked (panic - panicked)
- a single vowel plus a consonant and is stressed on its final syllable the consonant is usually doubled and -ed added (plan - planned)
- -p, g or -m the consonant is usually doubled and -ed added (ram - rammed / tap - tapped / gag - gagged)
- -l the consonant is usually doubled (travel - travelled)
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Verbs are a class of words used to show the performance of an action(do, throw, run), existence (be), possession (have), or state (know, love) of a subject. To put it simply a verb shows what something or someone does.
Most statements in speech and writing have a main verb. These verbs are expressed in tenses which place everything in a point in time.
Verbs have moods, which indicate the viewpoint of the verb, whether it is a fact, a command or hypothetical.
Verbs have a voice too. The voice shows whether the subject of a sentence is carrying out an action, or is having an action carried out on it.
Verbs are conjugated (inflected) to reflect how they are used. There are two general areas in which conjugation occurs; for person and for tense .
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