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Present (1)The Present of Ele: Statements(l am tall. I am not a good dancer.)The Present of Ele: Questions(Are you OK? Yes, I am.)The Present Progressive: Statements(She is talking. She is not sleeping.)The Present Progressive: Questions(Are you sleeping? No, l'm not.)

Present (2)The Simple Present: Statements(She usually drinks tea.)The Simple Present: Questions(Do you laugh a lot? Yes, we do.)Non-Action Verbs(l see the moon.)Present Progressive and Simple Present(They're watching TV. / They watch TV every day.)The lmperative(Open the door! Don't touch the plate!)

PastThe Past ot Be(Were you there yesterday? Yes, lwas')The Simple Past of Regular Verbs: Statements(He painted a picture YesterdaY.) ,The Simple Past of lrregular Verbs:(We saw the movie last night.)The Simple Past: Questions(Did they come alone? Yes, theY did.)

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FutureThe Future with Be going to(They are going to change soon.)The Future with W1II(He will leave at 5:OO. He won't stay.)

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Nouns: Common/Proper, Singular/Plural(Harrods sells pianos from Japan.)Nouns: Count/Non-Count(Cream? Sugar? One teaspoon? Two teaspoons?)Articles: A/An and The(lt's not a closet. lt's the kitchen!)No article (Al or The(l love music. The music here is great!)Gluantifiers: Sorne and Any(Did you buy any clothes?)Gluantifiersz Many, Much, A few, A little, A lot of(He has a lot of things, but not much space.)There is, There are(There's a fly in my soup!)

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Modals (1)Ability: Can, Could(He can run, but he can't flY.)Suggestions= Why don't, Let's, How about(Let's go to the cafeteria.)Requests= Will, Would, Can, Could(Could you open the door for me?)Permission= May, Can, Could(Can we swim here? No, You can't!)

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Some Verbs that Can Have Ttvo ObjectsSome Common Trwo-Word Verbs

Some Common Nouns with Irregular Plural Forms

Some Common Non-Count NounsProper NounsIrregular Comparisons of Adjectives and QuantifrersCardinal and Ordinal NumbersSome Common Measure Words

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Some Common AbbreviationsSome Common PrepositionsContractions with Verb FormsSpelling Rules for Base Form of Verb + -ing(Present Progressive and Gerund)Spelling Rules for the Simple Present:Third-Person Singular (he, she, it)Spelling Rules for the Simple Past of Regular VerbsSpelling Rules for Regular Plural NounsSpelling Rules for the Comparative (-er) andSuperlative (-est) of AdjectivesSpeliing Rules for Adverbs Ending in -ly

Some Capitalization and Punctuation RulesPronunciation TablePronunciation Rules for the Simple Present:Third-Person Singular (he, she, it)Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Past of Regular VerbsPronunciation Rules for Regular Plural Nouns

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