Practical Grammar
II semester
- Formation and use of Future Simple.
- Formation and use of Future Progressive.
- Formation and use of Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive tenses.
- Uses of Future Simple and Be going to-structure to refer to the future.
- The use of Present tenses to refer to the future.
- Conditional sentences (types 1, 2, 3).
- Zero conditional.
- Wish and if only
- The passive voice: Basic tense forms of the passive.
- Uses of the passive. The passive with the verbs ‘to say’, ‘to believe’, ‘to suppose’, ‘to consider’ etc. (‘It is said that…’, ‘… is said…’).
- The passive voice: The use of ‘by’ + agent (=doer) and ‘with’ + instrument after a passive.
- Form and use of the causative. ‘Get’ in the causative (‘get something done’).
- Sequence of tenses rule. The notions of anteriority, simultaneity and posteriority of actions.
- Sequence of tenses rule. Sentences with present and preterit tense forms in the main clause.
- Sequence of tenses rule. Clauses with absolute time reference. (Shifts in the time domain.)
- Reported speech. The tense change.
- Reported statements. Reporting verbs.
- Reported questions.
- Reported requests, suggestions, offers and orders.
- The major properties of the adverb.
- Adjectives and Adverbs ending on – ly. (The overlap between the Adjectives and Adverbs.)
- The order of adverbs in a sentence/ the structure of Adverbial Phrases.