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Using the articles

The articles are the words: the a an

‘The’ is thedefinite articleused for specific items.

‘A’ and ‘an’ are more general. ‘An’ is used before a vowel.
These are theindefinite articles.

Utilising pronouns

Pronounstake the place of nouns:

the boy he

my brother and I we

Relative pronounslink clauses:

This is the girl who stole the book.

Choosing the right verb form

Verbs are ‘doing’ or ‘being’ words.Finite verbsare ‘com-
pleted’ verbs which show person, number and tense.

She threw the ball.

‘Threw’ is the finite verb; ‘she’ is the third person singular
(number) and the tense is the past.

Thenon-finite verbsare:

the infinitive to do to jump
present participle (always ends in ‘-ing’) doing jumping
past participle (used with verb to have) He haddone.
She hasjumped.

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