... birds in the
disappearing
b I trouble with that car the whole of the time I owned it.
2 a As a historian, I'm interested in how people in the past.
b During that hard winter, people by selling ... considering taking early retirement. (This is something I'm thinking about now)
ã The children love having Jean stay with us. (They love it when Jean stays) and
ã The children are loving having ... She's carrying
(or was carrying) a bag full of shopping
We can also use the present simple and present continuous like this in
commentaries (for example, on sports events) and in giving instructions:
ã...
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... TIEN KIEN
ENGLISHGRAMMARIN USE
ENGLISH GRAMMARIN USE
GV: TRIEU THI KIM THONG – THCS TIEN KIEN
GV: TRIEU THI KIM THONG – THCS TIEN KIEN
ENGLISHGRAMMARIN USE
ENGLISH GRAMMARIN USE
GV: ... KIEN
ENGLISHGRAMMARIN USE
ENGLISH GRAMMARIN USE
The letter
The letter
are being written
are being written
by my secrectary
by my secrectary
Past continuous
Past continuous
... yesterday.( not by some one )
People speak Englishin Brazil -> English was spoken in Brazin.
People speak Englishin Brazil -> English was spoken in Brazin.
Cac thi o the bi dong:
Cac thi o...
... you think about these things? Write a sentence about each one. Begin with In my
opinion /I think /I don’t think /I don’t agree with /I’m against /I’m in favour of
1 (terrorism)
2 (smoking)
3 ... dinner”. Tom suggested
53.3 Make your own sentences. Complete each sentence using -ing.
1 At weekends I enjoy
2 This evening I fancy
3 I often regret
4 Learning English involves
5 I think ... train. (prefer)
5 It’s a pity I didn’t see the film. (like)
UNIT 57: INFINITIVE or -ING (Động từ nguyên mẫu hay -ING) (2) với begin, start, intend,
continue, remember, try
57.1 Here is some information...
... stopped doing some things and started doing other things:
He stopped studying hard/going to bed early/running three miles e3very morning
He started smoking/going out in the evening/spending a lot ... covered in paint. She has been painting the ceiling.
Has been Painting is the present perfect
We are interested in the activity. It does not matter whether something has been finished or not. In ... I/he/she/it was playing/doing/working etc.
we/you/they were playing/doing/working etc.
B. We use the past continuous to say that somebody was in the middle of doing something at a certain time.
The...
... sentence.
1 I’m playing tennis tomorrow unless/providing it’s raining.
2 We’re going to start painting the house tomorrow unless/provided it’s not raining.
3 You can’t smoke in here unless/as long ... sentence about each one. Begin with In my
opinion /I think /I don’t think /I don’t agree with /I’m against /I’m in favour of
1 (terrorism)
2 (smoking)
3 (examinations)
4 (capital punishment) ... Spain in our holidays ans swam in Mediterranean.
Ton has visited most countries in western Europe.
A friend of mine used to work as a reporter in Middle East.
Next year we are going skiing in...
... sentence.
1 I’m playing tennis tomorrow unless/providing it’s raining.
2 We’re going to start painting the house tomorrow unless/provided it’s not raining.
3 You can’t smoke in here unless/as long ... dinner”. Tom suggested
53.3 Make your own sentences. Complete each sentence using -ing.
1 At weekends I enjoy
2 This evening I fancy
3 I often regret
4 Learning English involves
5 I think ... Charlie told you a lot of things. Here are some of
the things he said to you:
1 I’m thinking of going to live in Canada.
2 My father is in hospital.
3 Nora and Jim are getting married next month.
4...
... exasperating, frightening, gratifying, misleading, thrilling, time-
consuming, worrying
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As well as taking modifying words like very and extremely,adjectives also take different forms to
indicate ... with the following:
the work is rewarding ~*the work rewards
the job was exacting ~*the job exacted
your paper was interesting ~*your paper interested
In these instances, the inability to ... left
The definite and the indefinite articles can never be pronouns. They are always determiners.
3.3 The Ordering of Determiners
Determiners occur before nouns, and they indicate the kind of reference...
... the verb.
Infinitives with to are referred to specifically as TO-INFINITIVES, in order to distinguish them from
BARE INFINITIVES, in which to is absent:
To-infinitive Bare infinitive
Help ... non-gradable:
my main reason for coming ~*my very main reason for coming
the principal role in the play ~*the very principal role in the play
As well as taking modifying words like very ... using a main
verb, we cannot invert:
[John sings] in the choir ~*[Sings John] in the choir?
Instead, we have to use the auxiliary verb do:
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My sister spoke French on holiday Past Finite
It...
... continuous and the be going to form
48 The future simple
49 The present continuous and the future simple
50 will + infinitive and the be going to form
51 will + infinitive and the be going ... the verbs in brackets into the present continuous tense. In No. 25, have is used as
an ordinary verb and can therefore be used in the continuous tense.
1 She (not work), she (swim) in the river.
2 ... form
52 The future continuous tense
53 will + infinitive and the future continuous
54 won't + infinitive and the future continuous negative
55 Second person interrogative: will you and...
... pence, e.g. fifty pence. Pennies are individual penny
coins.
297 Nouns which do not change in the plural
Some nouns have the same form in the singular and plural.
Singular: One aircraft was shot down.
Plural: ... the
Grundys.
d We do not change y in by: stand-bys, lay-bys.
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2 We keep y before i.
copy copying hurry hurrying
NOTE
We change ie to y before ing.
die dying lie lying
But pay, lay and say have ... e.g. sheep, deer,
some kinds offish, e.g. cod, salmon; and some nouns ending in s, e.g. headquarters,
means. ã 154(3)
NOTE
a Some measurements (e.g. pound, foot) can be singular after a plural...
... the verb.
Infinitives with to are referred to specifically as TO-INFINITIVES, in order to distinguish
them from BARE INFINITIVES, in which to is absent:
To-infinitive Bare infinitive
Help ... has certain merits, since it allows us to determine word classes by replacing
words in a sentence with words of "similar" meaning. For instance, in the sentence My son
cooks dinner every ... plays an important role in the grammar of some languages. In French,
for instance, a masculine noun can only take the masculine form of an adjective. If the noun is
feminine, then it will take...