Who vs Whom
Who
Who is always used as the subject of the verb.
eg Who went to the circus?
Whom
Whom is never used as the subject of a verb. It is the object form of a pronoun.
eg Whom should I ask about the discount?
eg The actors, one of whom was Jack, were treated to a dinner by a wealthy man.
Whose
Whose is used in the posssessive form for a person or people.
eg Mary whose responsiblity it was to complete the project did a remarkable job.
Bring vs Take
Bring means to bear HERE or move TOWARD the speaker.
eg When I come home, I will bring my work. (The point of reference is from my home.)
Take means to bear THERE or to take AWAY from the speaker
eg When I go home, I will take my work. (The point of reference is from work.)
had finished vs finished
Wrong - After I finished explaining myself, she told me that....
Right - After I had finished explaining myself, she told me that....
Prefer to vs Rather than
Prefer (noun) to noun
Rather (verb) than (verb)
A vs The
A number of boys are hiding in the toilet
The number of road accidents is increasing
But
A group of students is
Agreement - Who
Charlene is a scientist who writes the report.
He is one of the men who do the work.
- PRT/ PST / PPT
tell a lie - lie/ lied/ had lied
lie down - lie / lay / had lain/ lying
lay an egg - lay / laid / had laid/laying
Every
Every boy and girl has the opportunity to play the computer game.
AM vs I
Julie will be treating her and me to ice cream. [object]
Julie and I will be buying icecream for the girls.[subject]
Irregular Past Participle
PRT/ PST / PPT
become/became/become
come/came/come
run/ran/run
saw/sawed/sawn
sew/sewed/sewn
show/showed/shown
Verbs which do not change their form
burst/cost/cut/hit/hurt/let/put/read/set/shut/split/spread
Nouns singlular in form but plural in meaning
people/police/cattle/footwear
Nouns plural in form but singular in meaning
mathematics/measles
Same form for both singlular and plural
sheep/fish/series/means/Chinese/Japanese
Unique singular nouns
Furniture/Information/Equipment
Singluar form
anything, anyone, another, anybody, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, , many a, neither, no one, nobody, nothing, one, other, somebody, someone
Plural form
both, few, many, others, serveral
Either Plural or Singular
All, any, none, some, such
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-questions-tag.htm
| + Positive statement, | - negative tag? |
| Snow is white, | isn't it? |
| - Negative statement, | + positive tag? |
| You don't like me, | do you? |
Negative adverb creates a negative meaning in a sentence without the use of the usual no/not/neither/nor/never constructions:
- He seldom visits.
- She hardly eats anything since the accident.
- After her long and tedious lectures, rarely was anyone awake.
"He rarely shouts at others,_________?" - does he since rarely is use as a negative adverb.
1. In the present tense, if the subject is 'I', the auxiliary changes to 'are'or 'aren't'.
I'm sitting next to you, aren't I?
2. With 'let's', the tag question is 'shall we'.
Let's go to the beach, shall we?
3. With an imperative, the tag question is 'will you'.
Close the window, will you?
4. We use a positive tag question after a sentence containing a negative word such as never, hardly, nobody.
Nobody lives in this house, do they?
You've never liked me, have you?
5. When the subject is nothing, we use 'it' in the tag question.
Nothing bad happened, did it?
6. When the subject is nobody, somebody, everybody, no one, someone,or everyone, we use 'they' in the tag question.
Nobody asked for me, did they?
7. If the main verb in the sentence is 'have' (not an auxiliary verb), it is more common to use 'do' in the question tag.
You have a Ferrari, don't you?
8. With used to, we use 'didn't' in the tag question.
You used to work here, didn't you?
9. We can use positive question tags after positive sentences to express a reaction such as surprise or interest.
You're moving to Brazil, are you?
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