English Grammar and Vocabulary Guide

Verb Tenses

Active Voice

  • Present Simple: Rita writes a letter.
  • Past Simple: Rita wrote a letter.
  • Present Perfect: Rita has written a letter.
  • Future Simple: Rita will write a letter.
  • Present Continuous: Rita is writing a letter.
  • Past Continuous: Rita was writing a letter.
  • Past Perfect: Rita had written a letter.
  • Future Perfect: Rita will have written a letter.
  • Future Continuous: Rita will be writing a letter.
  • Going To: Rita is going to write a letter.

Passive Voice

  • Present Simple: A letter is written by Rita.
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English Grammar and Phrasal Verbs: A Comprehensive Guide

To Have Something Done

To have something done: -Have/get (Verb conjugated according to the sentence) + object + past participle

Yet I already always negative of the present perfect!

Conditionals

First Conditional

If + subject + 1st column, subject + will + 1st column

If she studies, she will pass (Negative: If she doesn’t study, she won’t pass)

Second Conditional

If + subject + 2nd column, subject + would + 1st column

If I studied, I would pass (Negative: If I didn’t study, I wouldn’t pass)

Third Conditional

If

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English Grammar and Vocabulary Guide

Verb Tenses and Forms

Active Voice

  • Present Simple: Rita writes a letter.
  • Past Simple: Rita wrote a letter.
  • Present Perfect: Rita has written a letter.
  • Future Simple: Rita will write a letter.
  • Present Continuous: Rita is writing a letter.
  • Past Continuous: Rita was writing a letter.
  • Past Perfect: Rita had written a letter.
  • Future Perfect: Rita will have written a letter.
  • Future Continuous: Rita will be writing a letter.
  • Going to: Rita is going to write a letter.

Passive Voice

  • Present
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The 1950s saw a new wave of intellectuals, including Kingsley Amis and Alan Sillitoe, who fiercely criticized class distinctions in their works. They believed that the British establishment, encompassing aristocratic families, the Church of England, and elite universities like Oxford and Cambridge, perpetuated these divisions. Their writing conveyed a sense of anger and frustration with the complacency of post-war Britain. The heroes, or often anti-heroes, depicted

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This isn’t a love story with a happy ending, but it’s the only story I have because I was born so ugly, so very ugly. When I was born, the doctor went to the waiting room and told my father, “We did what we could, but it came out.” My mom didn’t know whether to stay with me or with my placenta.

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Because I was premature, they put me in an incubator with polarized glass. My mother never breastfed me because she said she only wanted me as a friend. So instead

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My Story

My story begins in the winter of 1993. I was four years old, and my family and I were forced to flee our home in Azerbaijan as refugees of war. The collapse of Soviet Russia left the Armenian people vulnerable, and we were given just three days to evacuate. We eventually arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, with little more than the clothes on our backs and $50 in our pockets.

Life in America was a struggle. We lived

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