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Monday, June 25, 2012

Grammar For Proficiency Test




Present Perfect Tense:


Past Perfect Vs Simple Past


Linking words




Nouns


Test 1
Test 2

Count Nouns and Non Count Nouns

Test


Quantifiers



With Uncountable NounsWith BothWith Countable Nouns
How much?How much? or How many?How many?
a littleno/nonea few
a bit (of)not anya number (of)
some (any)several
a great deal ofa lot ofa large number of
a large amount ofplenty ofa great number of
a large quantity oflots ofa majority of




much or many

much: uncountable nouns (milk, marmalade, money, time etc.)
many: countable nouns (bottles of milk, jars of marmalade, dollars, minutes etc.)
Examples:
How
 much money have you got?
How
 many dollars have you got?
In informal English these questions are often answered with a lot of/lots of. There is no much difference between the two phrases.


a little or a few

a little: non countable nouns (milk, marmalade, money, time etc.)
a few: countable nouns (bottles of milk, jars of marmalade, dollars, minutes etc.)
Examples:
He has
 a little money left.
He has
 a few dollars left.
some: affirmative statements, offers, requests and in questions when you expect the answer "yes"
any: negative statements, questions
Have you got any bananas? No, we haven't got any. But we've got some oranges.
The compounds with some and any are used like the single words some/any.

Compounds
Examples
something
anything
There is something wrong with our car.
someone
anyone*
There is someone at the door.
somebody
anybody*
I would like to be somebody.
someday
Someday he'll be rich.
sometime
anytime
We saw her sometime last month.
sometimes
I sometimes take the bus to school.
someplace
anyplace
somewhere
anywhere
Can't you sing somewhere else?
somehow
anyhow
someway
anyway
She looked ill, somehow.
anymore
I can't help you anymore.
* There is no much difference between someone/anyone and somebody/anybody.
Examples: 
There's someone at the door.
I'd like to be somebody.


Test


ARTICLES "A", "AN" AND "THE"


Test

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

TEST


MODAL VERBS TEST 


Prepositions


Preposition Test 


Subject-Verb Agreement


Test 1
Test 2

Relatives Clauses


Test 
Test 1
Test 2

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Superlatives

Superlatives







In English we form the Superlative of an adjective taking into account if it is long or short.

When an adjective is long, we form the superlative adding: "The"+"most"+"adjective". Example: The most beautiful girl.

When an adjective is short, we form the superlative adding: "The"+"adjective"+"est". Example: The easiest lesson.

Superlative adjectives follows some rules of spelling


In the video below, students will review comparatives and superlatives.



Finally, students are going to develop a practice accessing the following side: http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1876




Saturday, April 21, 2012

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