Relative clause
A relative clause is a subordinate clause used as an adjective for a noun. These clauses come after a noun to distinguish it and identify it from others. These clauses begin with relative pronouns, each of which has a different meaning and use.
Which is not rational?
Where
When
Whose property?
That for the rational and the irrational
I met the girl who won the prize
The word girl means daughter. It is a name for a wise person. I wanted to distinguish which girl you kissed. I brought after it the sentence “and a girl” and used the relative pronoun “who” because it comes after the name of a wise person.
Present simple tense
Usage: The simple present tense is used to talk about habits and facts.
Composition:
s
V+es when it ends with (aeoiu)
ies when the verb ends with y preceded by a consonant
He goes to school every day
He goes to school every day.
We negate with (verb in the infinitive) + don't with plural pronouns -I.
(verb in the infinitive) + doesn't with singular pronouns
He doesn't go to school every day
I denied with doesn't because he is a singular pronoun and I brought after doesn't the infinitive of goes which is go
Past simple is a tense used when talking about events that happened in the past.
form
d
V+ed
ied
bake_baked
Cook_cooked
Cry_cried The verb ends with y and is preceded by a consonant. We drop the y and add ied.
She washed her dress yesterday
She washed her dress yesterday
I want to negate the sentence. We negate this time with
Verb in the infinitive + didn't
We put didn't between the subject and the verb.
She didn't wash her dress yesterday
Make a question about this:
Verb in the infinitive + subject + Did
Did she wash her dress yesterday?
Did she wash her dress yesterday?
Key words for time:
Yesterday
Last
Ago
In the past
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