Comprehensive English Vocabulary and Grammar Guide

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Vocabulary

Prefixes

  • re/over/under: overeat, reshape, overspend, overproduce, undercook, redesign, resend
  • anti/inter/multi/over/pro: inter/over/proactive, multicolored, prodemocracy, overeat, multiethnic, intergalactic, antiglobalization, multi/international, overproduce, multipurpose, antisocial, overspend, multistorey, anti/protechnology
  • Negative prefixes: disobedient, disorganized, illegal, illiterate, immoral, impatient, inadequate, incredible, irrelevant, irresponsible, unbelievable, unhelpful, unsafe.

Other

  • Inspired: inspirado
  • Innovative: innovado
  • Replaced: reemplazado
  • Discover: descubierto
  • Developed: desenvolvido
  • Invented: inventado
  • Observed: observado
  • Researched: buscado
  • Created: creado
  • Designed: diseñado
  • Adapted: adaptado
  • Genre of films: adventure, comedy, costume drama, horror, musical, romance, sci-fi, western.
  • Nouns: adventure, album, audience, author, bestseller, blockbuster, box office, charts, comedy, costume-drama, director, genre, hit, horror, listener, musical, producer, reader, romance, romantic comedy, sci-fi, script, series, stream, stunt, talent-show, track, tv-show, viewer, viral video, western
  • SASCOM: size, age, shape, color, origin, material

Grammar

Passive Voice

1. Uses & Tenses

  • Present Simple: take/takes - is/are taken
  • Present Continuous: is/are taking - is/are being taken
  • Present Perfect: has/have taken - has/have been taken
  • Past Simple: took - was/were taken
  • Past Perfect Simple: had taken - had been taken
  • Will: will take - will be taken
  • Be Going To: is/are going to take - is/are going to be taken
  • Modal Verbs: can/must/should take - can/must/should be taken

2. Active to Passive

  • Active: They have discovered a vaccine.
  • Passive: A vaccine has been discovered.
  • Active: They were being followed.
  • Passive: Someone was following them.

3. Impersonal Passive

  • Sentence: People said that Mr. Brown owned a lot of money.
  • Option 1: Mr. Brown was said to have owned a lot of money. (subject + passive + to have + past participle)
  • Option 2: It was said that Mr. Brown owned a lot of money. (It + passive + that + clause)

Relative Clauses

  • Who: person / that
  • Which: object (en el cual)
  • Whose: possession (cuya/o)
  • Whom: person
  • Where: donde
  • When: cuando
  • Why: porque

Defining

  • Can be omitted if a subject follows the relative pronoun.
  • Example: The girl who I met - The girl I met.

Non-defining

  • Cannot be omitted and are enclosed in commas.
  • Example: The cardigan, which I ordered,...

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