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present tenses: for example He goes (simple present); She is walking (present progressive),
progressive (or'continuous'): for example lam thinking (present progressive); They were talking (past
progressive),
pronouns: for example I, you, anybody, themselves.
question tags: for example isn't it?, doesn't she?
reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself etc.
regular: plurals like cats, buses; past tenses like started, stopped; irregular: plurals like teeth, men, children; past

tenses like broke, went, saw.
relative clauses: clauses that begin with relative pronouns: for example the man who bought my car.
relative pronouns: who, which and that when they join clauses to nouns: for example the man who bought my car.
sentence, clause: A sentence begins with a capital letter (A, B etc) and ends with a full stop (.), like this one. A
sentence may have more than one clause, often joined by a conjunction. For example: I'll come and see you
when I'm in London.

simple past tense: see past tenses,
simple present tense: see present tenses.
singular: for example chair, cat, man; plural: for example chairs, cats, men.
spelling: writing words correctly: for example, we spell necessary with one c and double s.
subject and object: In She took the money-everybody saw her, the subjects are she and everybody; the objects are
the money and her.
superlatives: for example oldest, best, most beautiful, most easily.
tense: She goes, she is going, she went, she was going, she has gone are different tenses,
third person: words for other people, not / or you: for example she, them, himself, John, has, goes.

uncountable nouns: see countable nouns,
verbs: for example sit, give, hold, think, write.
vowels: a, e, i, o, u and their usual sounds; consonants: b, c, d, f, g etc and their usual sounds.

other useful words

Here are some other words that are used in this book. Find them in your dictionary and write the translations here.

action...................................... polite...........................
choose...................................... politely.........................
common...................................... possibility.....................
complete {verb)...................................... possible.......................
correct...................................... practise.........................
description...................................... predict..........................
difference...................................... prefer...........................
event...................................... probable......................
exclamation...................................... pronounce...................
explain...................................... pronunciation..............

expression...................................... repeat..........................
form {noun) ...................................... report...........................
go on, happen ...................................... revision.........................
in general ...................................... rule..............................
introduction ...................................... section.........................
join ...................................... similar..........................
mean {verb) ...................................... situation...................... .
meaning ...................................... stressed (pronunciation)
necessary ...................................... structure......................
news ...................................... unnecessary.................
normal ....................................... unusual.......................
normally...................................... use {noun)....................
particular...................................... use (verb)......................
plan...................................... (word) order.................

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