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REVISION OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR
PREPOSITIONS OF TIME AND PLACE
PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS
QUESTIONS WITH AND WITHOUT AUXILIARIES
FIRST TERM
PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE
IN Countries and Cities: In France, in NY
Buildings: In a shop, in a supermarket
Rooms: In the living room
Closed spaces: In a garden, in a car
ON A Surface: On a shelf, on the wall
On a plate, on the table
On a balcony
Transport: On a bike, on a bus, on a plane
AT At the bus station, at home, at the door, at the top
At work, at school, at university
At the end of
At a party
PREPOSITIONS OF TIME
IN Months: In March, in August
Years: In 1978, in 1066, in 2009
Seasons: In spring, in summer
Times of day: In the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening
ON Dates: On July 4th
Days: On Monday,
On Christmas Day, on Valentine’s Day
AT Times: At half past ten, at 8:40
Festival periods: At Christmas, Easter
At night
At the weekend
PAST CONTINUOUS
The past continuous tense is used to describe an action in progress at a specific moment in the past.
Subject WAS / WERE
-ING FORM
I was singing
He
She
It
was singing
We
You
They
were singing
PAST CONTINUOUS
AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVEYES/NO
QUESTIONS
I was dancing I wasn’t dancing Was I dancing?
You were eating You weren’t eating Were you eating?
He was sleeping He wasn’t sleeping Was he sleeping?
She was reading She wasn’t reading Was she reading?
It was running It wasn’t running Was it running?
We were walking We weren’t walking Were we walking?
They were studying They weren’t studying Were they studying?
RULES
Verb ending in...How to make the -ING
form Examples
consonant + vowel +
consonant
Double the consonant, then add –ING
swim - swimminghit - hitting
get – getting
vowel + consonant + E
Remove E, then add –ING come- cominglose - losinglive – living
[anything else] Add –ING say - sayinggo - going
walk - walking
PAST SIMPLE We use the past
simple to talk about finished actions in the past.
The past simple is the same for all persons.
Use the infinitive after Did and didn’t for negatives.
I stayed in a hotel
He
She
went to the beach
We
You
They
didn’t do our homework
Did you go on holiday?
PAST SIMPLE OR CONTINOUS?
• Use the past simple for a completed action.
• Use the past continuous for an action in progress.
I was sitting at home when the phone rang.
When I took the photo, the man was cooking some fish.
QUESTIONS WITH OR WITHOUT AUXILIARIES
QUESTION AUXILIARY SUBJECT INFINITIVE
What music
Who
do
did
you
he
listen to?
go with?
QUESTIONS WITH AN AUXILIARY
• To make questions in the past and present simple, we normally use the auxiliary verbs do / does / did + the infinitive.
• The normal order for questions in the present and past is QUASI.
QUESTIONS WITH OR WITHOUT AUXILIARIES
QUESTIONS WITHOUT AN AUXILIARY
SUBJECT VERB
What
Who
happened
wrote
at the weekend?
Romeo and Juliet?
• When the question word (Who, What, Which, How many?) is the subject of the verb in the question, we do not use an auxiliary (do, does, did) and the verb is in the third person.