Page 6 - Basic English Usage

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80 can: permission, offers, requests 118 except
and orders 119 except and except for
81 can with remember, understand, 120 exclamations
speak, play, see, hear, feel, 121 excuse me, pardon and sorry
taste and smell 122 expect, hope, look forward,
82 close and shut wait, want and wish
83 come and go 123 explain
84 comparison: comparative and
superlative adjectives 124 fairly, quite, rather and pretty
85 comparison: using comparatives 125 far and a long way
and superlatives 126 farther and further
86 comparison: much, far etc 127 fast
with comparatives 128 feel
87 comparison: comparative and 129 (a) few and (a) little
superlative adverbs 130 fewer and less
88 conditional 131 for: purpose
89 conjunctions 132 for + object + infinitive
90 contractions 133 for, since, from, ago and before
91 ‘copula’ verbs 134 future: introduction
92 countable and uncountable nouns 135 future: present progressive and
93 country going to
136 future: shall/will (predictions)
94 dare 137 future: shalt and will
95 dates (interpersonal uses)
96 determiners 138 future: simple present
97 discourse markers 139 future perfect
98 do: auxiliary verb 140 future progressive
99 do + -ing
100 do and make 141 gender (masculine and feminine
101 during and for language)
102 during and in 142 get + noun, adjective,
adverb particle or preposition
103 each: grammar 143 get (+ object) + verb form
104 each and every 144 get and go: movement
105 each other and one another 145 go: been and gone
106 either: determiner 146 go meaning ‘become’
107 either...or... 147 go...-ing
408 ellipsis (leaving words out)
109 else 148 had better
110 emphasis 149 half (of)
111 emphatic structures with it and 150 hard and hardly
what 454 have: introduction
112 enjoy 152 have: auxiliary verb
113 enough 153 have (got): possession,
114 even relationships etc
115 eventual(ly) 154 have: actions
116 ever 155 have + object + verb form
117 every and every one 156 have (got) to