ENGLISH4DUMMIES

Lessons for the student of English as a Second Language.

CONTENT:

GRAMMAR BASICS

 Basic Elements of the Sentence
 Subordinate Elements of the Sentence
 Sentence Patterns
 Tense Forms and Usages
 Variety in Sentence Structure

REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS

 Irregular Verbs. Basic Form, Past and Past Participle of Near 700 Irregular Verbs
 Regular Verbs. Basic Form, Past and Past Participle of Near 1200 Regular Verbs

PROBLEMS WITH VERBS

1. Verbs That Require an Infinitive or –Ing Form in the Complement

2. Participles
3. Necessity, Usually For Repair Or Improvement (Need)
4. Ability (Know)
5. Past Custom
6. Logical Conclusions (Must)
7. Advisability
8. Question Forms for Invitation and Customs
9. Preference
10. Unfulfilled Desires in The Past
11. Conditions
12. Desires
13. Contrary To Fact Statements
14. Subjunctives
15. Impersonal Expressions
16. Causatives

17. Tag Questions
18. More Tag Questions
19. More Tag Questions
20. Affirmative Agreement
21. Negative Agreement
22. Negative Imperatives

Problems with Pronouns
23. -Ing Form Modified By Possessive Pronouns
24. Subject and Object Pronouns
25. Propositions with Object Pronouns
26. Relative Pronouns Which Refers To Persons
27. Relative Pronouns Which Refer To Persons and Things

VERBS AS COMPLEMENTS

a)Verbs that use the Ing form.
b)Verbs that use the infinitive form.
c)Sentences that don’t change meaning using Gerund or Infinitive
d)Sentences that have different meaning
e)Sentences that the require the ING form with Prepositions
f)Sentences that require the infinitive form with adjectives
g)Pronoun before the Infinitive
h)Verb -Ing plus possessive form
i)Need
j)Subjunctives

VERBALS

1.The –ING form used as a noun (Gerund).
2.The –ING form used as an adjective
3.Past participle used as an adjective.
4.Infinitive used as a noun
5.Infinitive used as an adjective.
6.Infinitive used as an adverb.
7.Omission of to in the infinitive.
8.Verbs followed only by infinitive (as object)
9.Verbs followed only by gerund (as object)

LINKS

 www.google.com
 www.yahoo.com
 Dictionaries
 Pronunciation Helpers
 Translators