Basic English Grammar I

Verbs with Two Objects Some verbs have two objects. Look at the sentence below. Sam gave Anna ...

Exercise 1 Tell whether each sentence below is a declarative sentence, an interrogative sentence, an exclamatory sentence or an ...

I D Exercise 3 Underline the objects in the following sentences. Write D for direct object or I for indirect object above each o ...

Simple Sentences A clause is a group of words that contains one subject and one verb. A sentence that consists of one clause is ...

▲ ▲ Conditional Sentences To talk about things that are possible, you often use if in a sentence. A sentence with if is called a ...

A negative sentence contains the word not or another negative word. Negative sentences tell you that something does not exist or ...

Exercise 6 Match the if-clauses in the box with the main clauses below. Write two sentences for each pair of clauses. The first ...

I’ll tell you what happened I’ll ask Mom and Dad Exercise 7 Rewrite the following sentences to make them neg ...

◗ Questions There are two kinds of questions: yes or no questions and question-word questions. yes or no questions When you ask ...

Question-word questions Use the question words what, which, who (sometimes whom), whose, when, where and how to ask for informat ...

Question Tags Sometimes people finish what they are saying with a short question. Why do they do this? Because they want to know ...

Exercise 8 Rewrite the following statements as yes or no questions. The first one has already been done for you. It is ...

Exercise 9 Choose one of the question words from the box to complete the sentences below. You may use some of the words more tha ...

Exercise 10 Complete the following sentences by adding a question tag. Remember that a positive sentence needs a negative questi ...

1111 Direct and Indirect SpeechDirect and Indirect Speech Direct Speech The exact words that someone says are called direct spee ...

In indirect speech people often leave out the conjunction that. Maggie said that she felt ill. Sumiko said that it was time to l ...

Indirect Questions The verb ask is usually used to report questions. direct speech indirect speech Sally said, “Where is my back ...

When you are reporting yes or no questions, use if or whether after the verb. direct speech indirect speech “Is it raining?” ask ...

her 138 Exercise 2 Complete these indirect speech sentences with the correct pronoun or determiner. The first one has been done ...

Exercise 3 Rewrite the following sentences as indirect questions or indirect commands. The first one has been done for you. “Ar ...