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Your Notes
Contractions: short answer w. be
Yes, he is.
No, he’s not/ he isn’t.
XX Yes, he’s.
Prepositions:
on Wall Street
at 120 Wall Street
at the party/ at the mall
*near my house
close to / far from / next to/ across
from
in front of/ in back of
at home/ at work/ at school
at night/ at noon/ at midnight
Interrogatives:
What nationality…?
What kind of person…?
How long…?
Simple Present:
I work…
John works…
John and I work…
John doesn’t work…
We don’t work…
does/ goes/ has
every day, month, etc.
on Friday, on the weekend
always, usually, often
in the afternoon, at night
Simp Pres Interrog:
Do you do…? Don’t you go…? Does he
go/ Doesn’t he go…?
Yes, I do. / No, he doesn’t.
What kind of car does he drive…?
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Spelling:
see/ sees, die / dies
miss/ misses, wash/washes
try/ tries, study/studies
play/ plays, enjoy / enjoys
Present Continuous:
…am reviewing…
…are reviewing…
…is reviewing…
now, right now, at this moment
this week, this semester, etc.
these days, these weeks, etc.
XX You’re having a nice car.
XX You aren’t seeing well.
Questions:
Are you going to school this
semester?
What kind of school is he attending
these days?
Yes, I am. / XX Yes, I’m.
No, he’s not. / No, he isn’t.
Spelling:
getting, stopping
preferring, admitting
XX s howwing
XX boxxing
XX payying
Nouns:
cherry/ cherries
life / lives
piano / pianos
tomato / tomatoes
person / people
child / children
foot / feet
fish / fish
clothes, pajamas , (eye)glasses
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Indefinite & definite articles:
A dog lives there. The dog is violent.
Mice live there. The mice are dirty.
Generalizations:
Cats are clean animals.
A cat is a clean animal.
Quantifiers:
a cherry / an apple
several/ a few / many apples
no apples
Non-Count
water, gasoline
bread, butter
rice, sugar, hair
furniture, clothing
happiness, freedom
Quantifiers:
a spoonful of sugar
a quart of oil
a jar of marmalade
two slices of bread
10 pieces of furniture
Quantifiers:
a little butter, a little freedom
no butter, no sugar
NOTE: Quantifiers
any: negative and question
no : affirmative
much: non-count noun/ negative and
question
many: count noun/ negative,
affirmative, question
Examples:
I don’t have any money.
Do you have any money?
I have no money.
I don’t have much money.
Do you have much money?
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I don’t have many $1 bills.
I have many $1 bills.
Do you have many $1 bills?
XX I have any money.
XX I have not money.
XX I have much money.
XX I have much $1 bills.
There is/are + quantifiers:
There is a table there.
There is no table there.
There isn’t a table there.
There are tables there.
There are no tables there.
There aren’t any tables there.
Are there (any) tables?
How many tables are there?
How much space is there?
Future:
will be… /will buy
will not be / won’t buy
am going to study
are going to study
is going to study
am not going to…
is not/ isn’t going to…
are not/ aren’t going to…
Will you go…?
Won’t you go…?
Are you going to go…?
Aren’t you going to go…?
What kind of car are you going to
buy?
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Will versus Be going to:
1) Promise, Offer to help,
Decision now to do
something  WILL
2) Plan BE GOING TO
3) Prediction/Fact  WILL or
BE GOING TO
Complex sentences:
if, when, after, before
If it rains, I I’m not going to go.
We’ll call you when we arrive.
Past tense:
start / started
carry / carried
stop / stopped
admit / admitted
open / opened
be/ was, were
go/went, say/said, take/took
was not…/ wasn’t
were not…/ weren’t
did not start/ didn’t start
Was he born here?
Where were you born?
Did he see..?/ Didn’t he see..?
What kind of business did he start?
his morning, today, yesterday, last
night, last week, two days ago, a year
ago, in 2008, in January, in the
summer
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