| 1 |
adjectives go after be: your watch is nice. |
| 2 |
adjectives go before nouns: it's a new car. |
| 3 |
the plural of wife is wives. |
| 4 |
the singular of children is a child. |
| 5 |
the singular of grandchildren is a grandchild. |
| 6 |
we can say a white coffee (with milk) and a black coffee (no milk). |
| 7 |
with plural nouns we write people are. |
| 8 |
you singular and plural: you're a student. you're students. |
| 9 |
we use a name or a noun for a person + 's for the possessive: fiona is nick's wife. |
| 10 |
's can mean is or the possessive: anne's my sister ('s = is); kevin is nick's son ('s = possessive). |
| 11 |
we can also use 's with other nouns for people: it's my teacher's car; it's his friend's camera. |
| 12 |
for plural nouns we write s': it's my parents' house. |
| 13 |
we use subject pronouns with verbs: i'm, you listen. |
| 14 |
we use possessive adjectives with nouns: my sister, your family. |
| 15 |
we sometimes use a comma before but: our room is nice, but it isn't very big. |
| 16 |
this, that, these, those go before the noun: how much is this map? |
| 17 |
30 minutes = half an hour. |
| 18 |
15 minutes = quarter of an hour. |
| 19 |
18 months = a year and a half. |
| 20 |
we say two and a half years. |
| 21 |
we can say what do you do? to ask about a person's job: what do you do? i'm a doctor. |
| 22 |
we can say quarter past/to or a quarter past/to. we can also say the time like this - six twenty, six twenty-five. |
| 23 |
what time is it, please? it's twenty to three. |
| 24 |
we use at for times: my class is at four o'clock. |
| 25 |
a.m. = 0.00 - 12.00; p.m. = 12.00 - 24.00. |
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