F2F Class Notes 25th February (Tony)

Vocabulary

I’m not ready to take this brace off yet

he told me

physical therapy

Grammar

Sentence Construction

Every sentence must have at least one clause:

Including a Subject (Noun) and a Predicate (Verb)

I went to The Statue of Liberty :    The subject is I, and the Verb is WENT

Longer Sentences may have Objects:

I had a coffee: Subject is I, Verb is HAD, and the Object is COFFEE

I had a black coffee.     Now we use an ADJ to describe the Subject or Object

Compound Sentences:

I walked to the shops, but my husband drove.

I walked down the street then I saw a monkey.

Complex Sentences:

My mother likes dogs that don’t bark.     (Dogs is the subject for the first clause, the second clause has no subject so it needs the subject from the first clause. )

Use When to describe things happening at the same time.

I was walking down the street when I heard a loud crash.

Use that, to combine clauses.

I was eating a pasta that I got from the restaurant.

Past Continuous:

I was walking. I was eating dinner. They were visiting Jing An temple.

I was walking then i got a message.

Using the Verb TO BE and another verb, the other Verb must always have -ing

He is eating. She was talking. She talked. They were going.