 GRAMMAR TENSES

Present Simple: 1) Routines, facts, habits

2) Stative verbs
3) We use do + verb to emphasize the action

Present Continuous: 1) Actions happening now

2) Changing situations

Past Simple: Habits and facts in the past

Past Continuous: 1) Action in progress, temporary or changing situation in the past.

2) For background information

 We can join these two tenses, when the action in progress is interrupted by
another action. We use the past continuous for the action in progress and past
simple for the action that interrupted.

Used to: 1) Action verbs

2) Stative verbs

Would: Action verbs

So + adj + (that) + sentence

Such + adj + noun + (that)+ sentence
Such an/ a + adj + noun + (that) + sentence – COUNTABLE AND SINGULAR
Too + adj
Too + adj + full infinitive / for + noun/ person
Adj + Enough
Adj + Enough + full infinitive / for + noun/ person

 COLLOCATIONS
Big trouble
Fast asleep
Feel small
Wide awake
Long time
Deep voice

 PHRASAL VERBS
Do up – repair sth old
Move in – to start living in a different house or flat
Move out – to leave the house or flat where you live
Pull down – to destroy a building
Put up – let sb stay in your house
Rent out – to allow a house, room, office that you own to be used by somebody who
pays you regularly for using it
Settle in – to go and live permanently in a particular place
Tidy up – to make a place look better by putting things in the correct place 78

 WORD PATTERNS
Worth + verb ing
Keen on
Depend on
Tell + to infinitive
Stop + sby+ from
Make + sby do sth
 QUANTIFIERS
Each – Every + singular countable noun
All (of the) / Both (of the)/ Each of the/ Lots of (the)/ Many (of the) + Plural
countable nouns
Little/ Much + uncountable nouns
Quantifiers with OF THE + plural noun. The exception is EACH OF THE + singular
noun
All = generally
All of the = specific