Grammar

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Adverbs

Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adverbs

Can you repeat it more slowly, please?

More slowly is the comparative form of the adverb slowly.

Conjunctions

Conditional Conjunctions

Provided that you know the area, you won't get lost.

Provided that is one of the most common conditional conjunctions in English.

Prepositions

Prepositions of Place

I met him at the corner of the street.

At is the preposition of place.

Sentence structure

Defining Relative Clauses

The new novel is about a woman who invented the dishwasher.

Who invented the dishwasher is a defining relative clause that provides more information about a woman described in the novel.

Non-Defining Relative Clauses

Cindy, who I work with, invited us to the party tomorrow.

This is a non-defining relative clause, as providing someone's name is usually enough to identify a person.

Tenses

Future in the Past

I was going to tell them but I didn't get the chance.

Here, Future in the Past indicates that something didn’t turn out as expected.

She will have finished this novel by morning.

Here, the future perfect tense is used to express an action that will be completed by a cartain future time (by morning).

Future Perfect Continuous

Next year you will have been working here for 5 years.

Here, the future perfect continuous is used to emphasise the duration of the action (will have been working here for 5 years) up to a certain future time (next year).

Reported Speech

She said, "I exercise every day."

She said that she exercised every day.