future 2: will/shall
(information and prediction) 1 forms will + infinitive without to It will be cold tomorrow. Where will you spend the night? Some British people...
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Speaking questions
Cultural Differences for Kids High schools (Do students wear special school attire like uniforms? Can students drive to their high school? Can...
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future 9: future perfect they will have finished
will have + past participle We can use the future perfect to say that something will be finished or complete by a certain time in the future. The...
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and
1 use When we join two or more grammatically similar expressions, we usually put and before the last. bread and cheese We drank, talked and...
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adverb particles
1 adverb particles and prepositions Words like down, in, up are not always prepositions. Compare: – I ran down the road. – He’s in his...
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can and could 2: ability
1 knowledge, skill, strength etc: I can read Italian We use can to say what people and things are able (or unable) to do because of their...
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ellipsis 1: introduction
We often leave out words to avoid repetition, or in other cases when the meaning can be understood without them. This is called ‘ellipsis’. 1...
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present tenses 4: progressive or ‘continuous’
present progressive: forms ami are! is + -ing I am waiting. Are you listening? She isn’t working today. For double letters in words like sitting...
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so and not with hope, believe
instead of that-clauses. We often use so after believe, hope, expect, imagine, suppose, guess, reckon, think, be afraid, instead of repeating...
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about to
About + infinitive (with to) means ‘going to very soon’; ‘just going to’.Don’t go out now – we’re about to have lunch.I was about to go to...
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