Past continuous.

FORM

Positive

I/he/she/it ---> was waiting

You/we/they ---> were waiting

Negative  

I/he/she/he/it ---> was not waiting

You/we/they ---> were not waiting

Short

I/he/she/it ---> wasn't waiting

You/we/they ---> weren't waiting

Questions

Was I/he/she/it ---> waiting?

Were You/we/they ---> waiting?

1.-Interrupted Action in the Past

Use the Past Continuous to indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted. The interruption is usually a shorter action in the Simple Past. Remember this can be a real interruption or just an interruption in time.

Examples:

•I was watching TV when she called.

•When the phone rang, she was writing a letter.

•While we were having the picnic, it started to rain.

2-.Specific Time as an Interruption

In the fist use, described above, the Past Continuous is interrupted by a shorter action in the Simple Past. However, you can also use a specific time as an interruption.

Examples:

•Last night at 6 PM, I was eating dinner.

•At midnight, we were still driving through the desert.

•Yesterday at this time, I was sitting at my desk at work.

IMPORTANT

In the Simple Past, a specific time is used to show when an action began or finished. In the Past Continuous, a specific time only interrupts the action.

Examples:

•Last night at 6 PM, I ate dinner.

I started eating at 6 PM.

•Last night at 6 PM, I was eating dinner.

I started earlier; and at 6 PM, I was in the process of eating dinner.

3.-Parallel Actions

When you use the Past Continuous with two actions in the same sentence, it expresses the idea that both actions were happening at the same time. The actions are parallel.

Examples:

•I was studying while he was making dinner.

•While Cindy was reading, Irla was watching television.

•Were you listening while he was talking?

While vs. When

Clauses are groups of words which have meaning, but are often not complete sentences. Some clauses begin with the word "when" such as "when she called" or "when it bit me." Other clauses begin with "while" such as "while she was sleeping" and "while he was surfing." When you talk about things in the past, "when" is most often followed by the verb tense Simple Past, whereas "while" is usually followed by Past Continuous. "While" expresses the idea of "during that time." Study the examples below. They have similar meanings, but they emphasize different parts of the sentence.

Examples:

•I was studying when she called.

•While I was studying, she called.

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Passice voice 2

Examples of Pasive Voice

Tense		Subject	Verb	Object
Simple  Present	Active:	Rita	writes	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	is written	by Rita.
Simple Past	Active:	Rita	wrote	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	was written	by Rita.
Present Perfect	Active:	Rita	has written	a letter.
	Passive:	A letter	has been written	by Rita.

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Passive Voice n_n

Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.

Example:

My bike was stolen.

In the example above, the focus is on the fact that my bike was stolen. I do not know, however, who did it.

Form of Passive

Subject + form of to be + Past Participle.

Example:

A letter was written.

When rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following:

• the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence.
• the form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle).
• the subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is dropped).

ORDINAL NUMBERS

All ordinal numbers carry a suffix: -nd, -rd, -st, or -th.
first (1st)
second (2nd)

Numbers	ordinal
1st	first
2nd	second
3rd	third
4th	fourth
5th	fifth
6th	sixth
7th	seventh
8th	eighth
9th	ninth
10th	tenth
11th	eleventh
12th	twelfth
13th	thirteenth
14th	fourteenth
15th	fifteenth
16th	sixteenth
17th	seventeenth
18th	eighteenth
19th	nineteenth
20th	twentieth
21st	twenty-first
22nd	twenty-second
30th	thirtieth
40th	fortieth
50th	fiftieth
60th	sixtieth
70th	seventieth
80th	eightieth
90th	ninetieth
100th	hundredth
101st	hundred and first
200th	two hundredth
1,000th	thousandth
10,000th	ten thousandth
100,000th	hundred thousandth
1,000,000th	millionth

Adverbs of manner.

These adverbs are put behind the direct object (or behind the verb if there's no direct object).

Subject + verb + direct object + adverb

Example:

He + drove + the car + carefully.

He + drove + carefully.

Some adverbs tell us how an action is or should be performed.

Formation:

Often these adverbs are formed by adding -ly to the end of an adjective.

Adjectives ending -l add -ly ; careful-carefully.

Adjectives ending -y change to -ily ; lucky-luckily

Adjectives ending -ble change to -bly ; responsible-responsibly

ADJECTIVE	ADVERB
anxious	anxiously
bad	badly
beautiful	beautifully
capable	capably
lucky	luckily
quick	quickly
weak	weakly

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Time adverbials

-You use adverbials of time to say when something happens. You often use noun groups called time expressions as adverbials of time. Usually put at the end of the sentence and if you don't want to put emphasis on the time, you can also put the adverb of time at the beginning of the sentence.

·         yesterday

·         today

·         tomorrow last year

·         next Saturday

·         next week the day after tomorrow

·         last night

·         the other day

Examples:

One of my children wrote to me today..

So, you're coming back next week?

We use phrases with prepositions as time adverbials:

 We use at with:

·         clock times: at seven o’clock - at nine thirty - at fifteen hundred hours

·         mealtimes: at breakfast - at lunchtime - at teatime

 We use in with:

·         seasons of the year: in spring/summer/autumn/winter - in the spring /summer/autumn/winter

·         years and centuries: in 2009 -in 1998 - in the twentieth century

·         months: in January/February/March etc.

·         parts of the day: in the morning - in the afternoon - in the evening.

We use on with:

·         days: on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday etc - on Christmas day - on my birthday.

·         dates: on the thirty first of July - on June 15th

Note: We say at night when we are talking about all of the night:

When there is no moon it is very dark at night.

He sleeps during the day and works at night.

But we say in the night when we are talking about a short time during the night:

He woke up twice in the night.

I heard a funny noise in the night.

We use the adverb ago with the past simple to say how long before the time of speaking something happened:

·         I saw Jim about three weeks ago.

·         We arrived a few minutes ago.

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Punctuation marks

Punctuation marks are symbols that indicate the structure and organization of written language, as well as intonation and pauses to be observed when reading aloud.

The rules of punctuation vary with language, location, register and time and are constantly evolving. Certain aspects of punctuation are stylistic and are thus the author's (or editor's) choice. Tachygraphic language forms, such as those used in online chat and text messages, may have wildly different rules.

The apostrophe ( ’ , often rendered as  ' ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritic mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. In English, it serves two main purposes: the omission of one or more letters (as in the contraction of does not to doesn't), and the marking of possessive cases (as in the cat's whiskers).

Brackets are tall punctuation marks used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text.

In British usage it normally refers to the "round" type, which is called a parenthesis mark in American usage.

The colon (:) is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line.

As with many other punctuation marks, the usage of colon varies among languages and, within a given language, across historical periods. As a rule, however, a colon informs the reader that the following proves, explains or simply provides elements of what is referred to before.

The comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text. Some typefaces render it as a small line, slightly curved or straight, or with the appearance of a small filled-in number 9.

The comma is used in many contexts and languages, principally for separating things.

The comma may be used to perform a number of functions in English writing. It is used in generally similar ways in other languages, particularly European ones, although the rules on comma usage – and their rigidity – vary from language to language.

A dash is a punctuation mark. It is similar in appearance to a hyphen, but a dash is longer and it is used differently. The most common versions of the dash are the en dash (–) and them dash (—).

An exclamation mark, exclamation point, or bang (!) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume, and often marks the end of a sentence. Example: "Watch out!"

A sentence ending in an exclamation point is an actual exclamation ("Wow!", "Boo!"), a command ("Stop!"), or intended to be astonishing or show astonishment: "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" exclamation points can also be placed mid-sentence with a function similar to a comma's: "On the walk, oh! there was a frightful noise."

A full stop (British English) or period (American English) is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of sentences.

Usage: Abbreviations, Titles, Acronyms and Initialisms

Quotation marks or inverted commas (informally referred to as quotes and speech marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase, or a word. They come as a pair of opening and closing marks in either of two styles: single ('…') or double ("…").