grammar guide

Grammar guide

Índice

Unit 1: Language

Unit 6: Perspectives

Unit 2: Going to extremes

Unit 7: Connections

Unit 8: Body and health

Unit 3: Travel and adventure

Unit 4: Consciousness

Unit 9: Cities

Unit 5: Fairness

Índice

Unit 1: Language

Unit 6: Perspectives

Unit 2: Going to extremes

Unit 7: Connections

Unit 8: Body and health

Unit 3: Travel and adventure

Unit 4: Consciousness

Unit 9: Cities

Unit 5: Fairness

UNIT 1

Language

Language

Adverbs and adverbial phrases

Adverbials

A word or group of words that modifies a verb, adjective, adverb, or a whole clause

The perfect aspect

UNIT 2

Going to extremes

Going to extremes

Inversion Invert a sentence move the adverbial to the beginning of the sentence and invert the subject and auxiliary verb

Future in the past- Narrative sentences The use of "would or was/were going to" to refer to the future from the perspective of some point in the past

UNIT 3

Travel and adventure

Travel and adventure

Inversion

Future past

UNIT 4

Consciousness

Consciousness

Noun phrases

Have and get

UNIT 5

Fairness

Fairness

Modals of Necessity, Prohibition, and Permission

Relative clauses are those that perform the subordinate function with respect to a main sentence, adding more information about a thing or a person that had already been mentioned before.

UNIT 6

Perspectives

The present simple tense is mainly used to talk about daily routines. In this context, these actions are routines and tend to happen all the time. The present continuous tense is mainly used to talk about an action happening right now and at the moment of speaking.

Perspectives

A participative clause is a phrase that describes a noun or pronoun by using a verb in the form "-ing" or "-ed"

UNIT 7

Connections

Connections

Cleft Sentences A cleft sentence is a complex sentence that emphasizes an element by rearranging the normal word order of a simple sentence with the help of a dummy word, such as 'it' or 'that'.

Deduction and speculation Combine modals of deduction and speculation must, might, could, may and then an infinitive verb to deduce and speculate about an action that happens in the present. Put together modals of deduction and speculation must, might, could, may, can't and have and then a past participle verb to deduce and speculate about an action that occurred in the past.

UNIT 8

Body and health

Body and health

GERUND AND INFINITIVE

CONDITIONAL

A gerund is a verb form that ends in “-ing” and is used as a noun (walking, traveling, voting).An infinitive is the base form of a verb preceded by “to” (to walk, to travel, to vote). Gerunds and infinitives can function as the subject of a sentence or the object of a verb.

Conditional sentences consider imagined or uncertain situations and the possible results of these situations. The most common types of conditional sentences involve if:

UNIT 9

Cities

Ellipsis and Substitution

Reflexive and Reciprocal pronouns

Substitution is the replacement of one item by another and ellipsis is the omission of the item.

Reflexives are used when the subject acts upon itself, while reciprocals are used when members of a group perform the same action relative to one another or each other

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