Dinércio Malauene

Numero: 26
Classe: 10a
Turma: 05

Exercise for holiday

Escola Secundária Geral do I e II Ciclo 3 de Fevereiro de Inhambane

Inhambane, Maio de 2024

 Dinércio Malauene
Numero:26
Classe:10a
Turma: 05

Exercise for holiday

Trabalho de investigação
científica a ser avaliado na
disciplina de inglês

Prof: Cátia

Escola Secundária Geral do I e II Ciclo 3 de Fevereiro de Inhambane

Inhambane, Maio de 2024

ÍNDICE
Introduce...............................................................................................................................................4
Used to..................................................................................................................................................5
What is used to in English grammar?................................................................................................5
What is an example of used to?.........................................................................................................5
Gerund...................................................................................................................................................5
Example of gerunds...........................................................................................................................6
Passive voice.........................................................................................................................................6
Types of pronouns.................................................................................................................................6
Possessive..........................................................................................................................................7
Reflexive...........................................................................................................................................7
Reciprocal..........................................................................................................................................7
Relative.............................................................................................................................................7
Demonstrative...................................................................................................................................7
Present Perfect.......................................................................................................................................7
Formation of adjective...........................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................9
Bibliography........................................................................................................................................10
Introduce

In this work with the theme: Exercise for holiday

I introduced that we use used to when we refer to things in the past, which are no longer true.

It can refer to repeated actions or a state or situation :

He used to play football for the local team , but he’s too old now .

List of gerunds

You can turn any verb you want (except a modal verb) into a gerund . Here is a list of
gerunds formed from a variety of verbs :

 Singing
 Meditating
 Cooking

Function of the passive voice

The passive voice is used to show interest in the person or object that experiences an action
rather than the person or object that performs the action . In other words , the most important
thing or person becomes the subject of sentence .

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Used to
We used to when we refer to things in the past, which are to a state or situation:

He used to play football the local team, but he’s too old now.

That white house over there used to belong to my family (It belonged to my family in the past
but not anymore.)

The verb “used to” is utilized to indicate something that happened on a regular basis in the
past .It is also used for things that were true in the past but are no longer true. As with the
other modal verbs “used to” is followed by the base form of the principal verbs

What is used to in English grammar?

Used to refers to actions and situations in the past which no longer happen or no longer true.
It always refers to the past: She used to sing in a choir, but she gave it up. (She sang, but she
doesn’t sing any more) Be used to means ‘be accustomed to’ or ‘be familiar with.

What is an example of used to?

I used to can be used to refer to a habit you had in the past but no longer have. “I use to” is
incorrect.

Examples:

I used to in a sentence I used to play tennis twice a week before I injured my knee.

I used to drink a lot of coffee, but it had a negative effect on my sleep.

Gerund
What is gerund?

A gerund is a form of a verb that ends in –ink that is used as a noun. As you may know, a
verb is a word that refers to actions or states of being, and a noun is a word that we use to
refer to people, places, things, and ideas.

A gerund is like a blend of verb and nouns. It looks like a verb, but it acts like a nouns.

For example, the word swimming is an example of a gerund.

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When used in sentences, gerunds are treated as third person singular nouns (like he, she, and
it).

Example of gerunds
1- They risk losing their job or they will never up a stage.
2- Elis suggests eating two plate of fish every week.
3- My family cannot tolerate watching some film since my family are old.
4- Playing basketball has been you favourite sport branch since I was a two year.
5- Eating too much fish is not good for her body.

Passive voice
The passive voice is used to show interest in the person or object that experiences an action
rather than the person or object that performs the action.

In other words, the most important thing or person becomes the subject of the sentence.

Sometimes we use the passive voice because we don’t know or do not want to express who
performed the action.

Examples:

 I noticed that a window had been left open

 Every year thousands of people are killed on our roads.
 My car has been stolen.
 All the cookies have been eaten.

The passive voice is formed by the verb to be + main verb in the past participle. However, we
can only form the passive voice with transitive verbs, that is, verbs that are accompanied by
an object, since the object of the sentence in the active voice will occupy the subject position
in the passive voice.

Types of pronouns
As well as personal pronouns, there are many other types, which we summarise here.

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Possessive

Ex: The white car is mine.

Reflexive

Ex: He injured himself playing football.

Reciprocal

Ex: They really hate each other.

Relative

Ex: The book that you gave me was really boring.

Demonstrative

EX: This is a new car

 Interrogative (What did he say to you?)

Present Perfect

Present Perfect is used when we express some action in the past that has repercussions in the
present or continues in the present.

In this case, we are talking about the stable meaning and its recognition can be facilitated
when we have the expressions since and for by, there are. Look at the examples:

 MY family has lived in Miami since 2010

In this example, we have information that the family has lived in Miami for years and still
lives in the same place.

Paul has worked here for twenty years.

The phrase indicates the temporal extension of Paul‘s work.

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He has worked at the same place of 20 years.

What is the structure of the present perfect?

The present perfect is marked by the form: Subject + have /has + main verb in participle +
complement.

Formation of adjective
Adverbs ending in –ly are usually adverbs of manner (slowly) and degree ( completely ,
fairly).

Adverbs formed from adjevtives ending in - l have double l:

Beautiful – beautifully, careful – carefully,

Hopeful- hopefully, historical – historically

Adverbs formed from adjectives ending in – y change the y to I :

Easy- easily, busy – busily, lucky – luckily . angry – angrily

Past perfect

The past perfect , also called the pluperfect , is a verb tense to talk about something that
happened before something else that is also in the past.

The past perfect formula

The formula for the past perfect tense is had +[past participle].

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Conclusion

After carrying out the work, I concluded that:

The formula for the past perfect tense is had +[past participle].

I could see that :

What types of pronouns are:

 Relative
 Demonstrative
 Interrogative
 Indefinite

It was possible to realize that

Adverbs formed from adjectives ending in – l have double l:

Beautiful – beautifully, careful- carefully , hopeful – hopefully, historical- historically

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Bibliography

Livro do Aluno – Inglês – 10 classe

Authors

Justino Matola , Hilário Langa , Johannes Magambo

ISBN:978-989-611-185-4

Edição / reimpressão: 04/2024

Editor : Plural Editores Moçambique

Código : 09596

Edioma : English

Tipo de produto : Escolar

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