Grammar: Question Tags

Question tags are questions situated at the end of the sentence used in conversation to get a reaction from the person you are talking to.

It is always used in the opposite way of the main sentence.

Grammar: Imperative

We can use the imperative to give a direct order.

• Stand up straight.

We can use the imperative to give instructions.

• Open your book.

Grammar: Some and Any

The words some and any are used for countable and uncountable nouns. Generally speaking, we could say that:

• Some means a few / a little
• Any means none in negative clauses or a few / a little in questions.

SOME is used in positive sentences and ANY in negative or questions

Personal pronouns, Possessive determiners, Possessive pronouns

Personal pronouns		Possessive determiners	Possessive pronouns
as subject (nominative)	as object (accusative and dative)
I	me	my	mine
you	you	your	yours
he	him	his	his
she	her	her	hers
it	it	its	its
we	us	our	ours
you	you	your	yours
they	them	their	theirs
Ex. We like the table.	Ex. The table is for us.	Ex. This is our table.	Ex. The table is ours.

Exercise 1: Translate the pronouns and determiners to your language
Exercise 2: Write four sentences for every column and send it to us.

Grammar: Passive

Passive is used if we are interested in the object or we don't know who caused the action.

Example: Homework is required in class

We can only form a passive sentence from an active sentence when there is an object in the active.

How to do it from an active sentence?

• Use verb to be + past participle of the verb
• Object of the "active" sentence becomes subject in the "passive" sentence
• Subject of the "active" sentence becomes "object" in the "passive" sentence" (or is left out)

Grammar: Both either and neither

The words either, neither, and both are all used to talk about how two objects relate to each other.

• “Either” means “X OR Y” (but not both). If you do not quote specifically X and Y, make sure to write of+the+something or of+pronoun as in the first example. Notice that the verb is always singular.