Intermediate English Scrapbook

Summarize

I did this scrapbook as a final assignment of a Intermediate English Grammar. Its goal is make a scrapbook that can help to memorize and remember all the important content (that I think) of the course.

You can find here some util points based of Intermediate English Grammar, like definitions, important things to remember, and some cool examples that I found on internet. I hope this single web page can help you to remember this topics.

Present Perfect

Use this grammar tense when it doesn't necesary to bring information about the past because the activity started and finished in the past, unless you use since/for

Grammar Form

  • Subject + HAVE/HAS (not) + Past Participle

    • Unspecified Time

  • Can be used with repeted events (time).

    • With Since/For

  • The activity began in the past and still going on now.
  • SINCE: for specific point in the past.
  • FOR: for duration or amount of time.

    • Important to Remember

  • Use with "HOW OFTEN" questions

    • Example

    Present Perfect Pregressive

    Show an action that started in the past but sill going on now

    Grammar Form

  • Subject + HAVE/HAS (not) + BEEN + ING verb

    • Important to Remember

  • Don't use adverbs of Present Perfect Tense here.
  • It's used with "HOW LONG" questions.

    • Example

    Past Perfect

    The past of the past

    Grammar Form

  • HAD (not) + Past Participle

    • Important to Remember

  • Don't use this tense when the time is clear (like yesterday...).
  • Instead, use "BY THE TIME" or "BY" to be more specific.

    • Example

    Past Perfect Progressive

    When action happens in a period of time but in the past

    Grammar Form

  • HAD (not) + BEEN + ING verb

    • Important to Remember

  • Don't use this tense when the time is clear (like yesterday...).
  • Instead, use "BY THE TIME" or "BY" to be more specific.

    • Example

    Modals

    Group of words that help main verbs

    Grammar Form

  • Subject + MODAL + main verb

    • Important to Remember

  • Modals NEVER change.
  • Main verbs STAY in their original forms.

    • Example

    Preference Modals

    Modals to help the main verb and the sencence to make a meaning of likes of preferences

    Grammar Form

  • Subject + PREFER + ING verb + TO + ING verb
  • Subject + LIKE + noun/ING verb + BETTER THAN + noun/ING verb
  • WOULD RATHER (not) + base form verb
  • Use "THAN" to compare.

    • Example

    Adjectives Participles

    Adjectives can have different meaning using Present Participle or Past Participle

    Using Present Participle (-ing)

  • It means CAUSE

    • Example

    Using Past Participle (-ed)

  • It means FEELING

    • Example

    Example

    Comparatives

    We use them to compare 2 things or people

    Grammar form

  • X + be + COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVE + than + Y

    • Important to remember

  • 1-2 syllable word
  • adjective + ER

    • Example

  • 2+ syllable word
  • MORE/LESS + adjective

    • Example

  • Use "AS" to say that 2 things are the SAME
  • subject1 + be (not) + (JUST/ALMOST) + AS + adjective + AS + subject2
  • JUST = EXACTLY
  • ALMOST = NEARLY
  • Close than other but not the same.
  • Don't use "NOT", instead use "NOT QUITE"

    • Superlatives

    We use them to compare 3 or more things/people

    Grammar form

  • X + be + SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVE

    • 1-2 syllable word

  • adjective + EST

    • Example

    2+ syllable word

  • MOST/LEAST+ adjective

    • Example

    Use "ONE OF THE" to refers to one of the things or people to compare, but not the only one

  • subject + be + ONE OF THE + SUPERLATIVE adjective + plural noun

    • Use "HAVE NEVER" to describe an action that refers for something that never succed.

  • subject + HAVE NEVER + COMPARATIVE adjective + noun

    • Adjective Clauses

    Words that connect the main clause with the adjective clause

    WHO/THAT + verb

  • Subject pronoun for people.

    • Example

    THAT/WHICH + verb

  • Describe things.

    • Example

    WHOSE + noun + verb

  • Join the clauses with possesive pronoun.

    • Example

    WHERE + subject + verb

  • Describes locations.

    • Example

    WHEN + subject + verb

  • Describe time words.

    • Example

    Articles

    Words to use in nouns to refers in singular/plural or even indefined/defined things

    A

  • Use with words starting with a consonant sounds.
  • Also with words starting with "eu, uni, ut".
  • Use to give general facts or introduce something for the first time.

    • Example

    An

  • Use with words starting with a vowel sounds.
  • Use to give general facts or introduce something for the first time.

    • Example

    The

  • Use to talk about specific thing.
  • Unique things.
  • Countries related things.
  • Currency.
  • Lenguage (only if lenguage noun is before "the English lenguage").
  • Location related things.
  • Oceans, seas and rivers.
  • Mountain Ranges.
  • Deserts.
  • Specific regions.
  • Time related things.
  • Decades or important time period.

    • Example

    Confusing Prepositions

    Correct use of on/in/at

    On

  • Use in open spaces and platforms.
  • Also use on days or specific days.

    • Example

    In

  • Use in closed spaces.
  • Also use in weaks, months, years or decades.

    • Example

    At

  • Places in general.
  • Also use in hours.

    • Example

    Important to Remember

  • In Prepositional Phrases, after nouns use P.Adj and after verbes use P.Adv.

    • Made with 💖 by Carlos Cortez

    1. Present Perfect
    2. Present Perfect Progressive
    3. Past Perfect
    4. Past Perfect Progressive
    5. Modals
    6. Preference Modals
    7. Adjectives Participles
    8. Comparatives
    9. Superlatives
    10. Adjective Clauses
    11. Articles
    12. Confusing Prepositions