Contrasting Traits, Grammar, and Sentence Structures

Contrasting Traits

• Tolerant - narrow-minded
• Generous - tight-fisted
• Considerate - thoughtless
• Self-confident - insecure
• Outgoing - reserved
• Level-headed - hot-headed

Verb Tenses

Examples of verb tenses:

• I have been waiting
• I arrived
• was preparing
• I arrived
• they had had

Determiners

Examples of determiners: a, little, few, both, few.

Verbs

Examples of verbs: going, telling, to come, giving, carry, to stay, to arrive, buy, to inform, to have.

Reported Speech

Statements

• Emily said that your teacher would go to...
• Helen told me that she had been writing a letter the day before
• Robert told me that your father had flown
• Lisa said that Jim had gone
• Patricia said that her mother might

Questions

• if the boys were reading
• who I had given the laptop
• if Tim was leaving...
• if it would rain the next day
• where you played

Commands

• My mother ordered me not to do that
• She ordered me to stay there and not to move
• The teacher told us to go on reading that article
• The mum told her not to shout at me
• My friend told me to go to see the TV

Direct Speech

• James complained: "We were working too hard since last week."
• Sandra suggested: "Shall we fly to Italy next week?"
• The workers warned Paul: "We will not finish the repairs unless you pay them."

Definitions

• OAP: is a person retired
• Guy: is a young man
• Toddler: baby that starts to walk
• To retire: stop working
• Pass away: die

More Verb Tenses

Examples of verb tenses: will be working, will have learnt, will be doing, have been playing, will have learnt, will be, leaves, are having, am meeting, is going.

Observations

It seems amazing that people in the past... The important thing is that you are here now. The fact that the man was seen at the some of...

Question Tags

Examples of question tags: am not, do they, won't you, shall we, aren't they.

Examples of tag questions: am I, are they, hasn't he, is it, didn't they.

Questions

According to the given answers:

• Who left the TV on overnight?
• Who did you speak to about my expenses?
• What happened after we left this morning?
• Who did you give the file to in the office?
• What restaurant serves the best food in the area?

Modal Verbs

• You should eat healthier food.
• You must take your passport with you when you go abroad.
• You needn't go to the bank.

Conditional Sentences

Examples of conditional sentences: were, see, had had, breaks, wouldn't, have passed, had, won't go, told.

Mixed Conditionals

• If Jason didn't have an exam tomorrow, he would go out.
• If I had done my homework, the teacher wouldn't be happy.
• If Gary had been able to get a visa, he could work in the USA.
• If Sarah had bought a ticket, she would be coming with us tomorrow.
• If I liked sitcoms, I would have watched Friends.