Basic English Grammar I

If the adjective ends in e, add r to form the comparative and st to form the superlative. adjective comparative superlative nice ...

Use more and most to compare most other two-syllable adjectives. You will also use more and most with all adjectives that have m ...

Adjective Phrases Phrases can be used like single adjectives to describe nouns and pronouns. Phrases that are used in this way a ...

to Tokyo small and brown Exercise 6 Complete the following sentences. Write an adjective phrase that includes the preposition in ...

N o t e s n Some vowels have a consonant sound as well as vowel sound. Use the article a with nouns that begi ...

The word the is called the definite article. Use the before a noun when you are talking to someone who already ...

Demonstrative Determiners The words this, that, these and those are also special pronouns called determiners. They ...

Quantifying Determiners Words such as many, much and several tell about quantity without giving an exact n ...

Some determiners can be used only with nouns of no exact number. They are little (meaning not much), a little (m ...

Interrogative Determiners The words what, which and whose are used before nouns to ask questions. Interrogative ...

Numbers Numbers are determiners, too. Numbers are often used before nouns to tell you exactly how many peo ...

Exercise 1 Read the following passage. Write the correct article in each blank space. If no article is needed, leave the space b ...

5 5 Verbs and TensesVerbs and Tenses Most verbs describe actions, so they are called action verbs. Action verbs tell what people ...

The third person singular form of some verbs is made by adding es at the end. Some examples are verbs that end in sh, ch, ss, x, ...

Some verbs that end in y have a vowel before the y. Just add an s at the end of these words to make the third person singular fo ...

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Some verbs have an object. The object of a verb is the person or thing that is affected by the ...

Exercise 1 Read the following sentences. Underline the verb in each sentence. We live in an apartment on the bou ...

chess 57 intransitive transitive object verb verb Exercise 3 Underline the verbs in the following sentences. Then show whether t ...

The Simple Present Tense Verbs have forms called tenses that tell you when the action happens. If the action happens regularly, ...

am, is and are The words am, is and are are the simple present forms of the verb be. n Use am with the pronoun I. n Use is with ...