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Grammar Lists - Main
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List 1 - Singular and Plural Nouns (15)
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Singular and plural forms of compound nouns
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Some nouns have same singular and plural forms or have plural ending (-s).
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The singular and plural forms of some nouns are the same.
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By changing the vowels
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By adding -s
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By adding –s or changing –f into –ves
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By adding –s to nouns ending in –f or –fe
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By changing –f or –fe into –ves
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By adding –s if there is a vowel before the -y
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The ending –is is changed to –es
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By changing –y into –ies if a noun ends in a consonant before the -y.
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By adding –s or –es to nouns ending in -o
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By adding –es to nouns ending in -o.
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By adding –s to nouns ending in -o.
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By adding -es to nouns ending in –ch, -s, -sh, -ss, -x, and -z.
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List 2 - Uncountable Nouns made Countable (Partitive) (6)
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1. Activity - Cynicism (Partitive nouns)
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2. Danger - Fruit (Partitive nouns)
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3. Genius - Luck (Partitive nouns)
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4. Marble - Rum (Partitive nouns)
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5. Sadness - Sunlight (Partitive nouns)
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6. Tea - Yogurt (Partitive nouns)
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List 3 - Collective Nouns (3)
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1. Collective Nouns - People
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2. Collective Nouns - Things
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3. Collective Nouns - Creatures
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List 4 - Verbs (6)
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Different Verb Types
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Forming Verbs
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Linking Verbs
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Stative Verbs
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Transitive/Intransitive Verbs
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Auxiliary verb
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| List 5 - Irregular Verbs (3) |
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Only the simple past and past participle are the same
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All three forms are different
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All three forms are the same
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List 6 - Adjectives (5)
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List of Absolute Adjectives
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Different Adjective Types
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Forming Adjectives
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Adjectives ending in –ly
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Collective Adjectives - Groups of People
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List 7 - Comparison of Adjectives (3)
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Comparatives and superlatives that are formed irregularly
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Comparatives and superlatives using 'more' and 'most'
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Comparatives and superlatives using –er and –est
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List 8 - Adverbs (3)
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Adverbs with two adverbial forms
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Comparison of Adverbs
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Forming Adverbs
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| List 8 - Sentence Examples: Adverbs with two adverbial forms (2) |
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Sentences: cheap-cheaply last-lastly
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Sentences: late-lately wrong-wrongly
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List 9 - Sentence Examples: Adverbs sharing same words as Adjectives (4)
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Sentences: alone-first
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Sentences: hard-near
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Sentences: only-together
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Sentences: well-wrong
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List 10 - Pronouns (6)
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Pronouns
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List 11 - Prepositions (10)
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Prepositions – how they are used
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Prepositions after Nouns
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Prepositions after Adjectives
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Prepositions after Verbs
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Sentence examples: prepositions after verbs (abandon to - cry over)
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Sentence examples: prepositions after verbs (dabble in - furnish with)
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Sentence examples: prepositions after verbs (gladden by - muster up)
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Sentence examples:prepositions after verbs (name after - rush through)
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Sentence examples: prepositions after verbs (sacrifice to - yell at)
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List of Prepositions
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List 12 - Conjunctions
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List 12 - Conjunctions
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List 13 - Forming Abstract Nouns (6)
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List 13 - Forming Abstract Nouns
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List 14 - Phrasal Verbs
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1. accede to - buy up
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2. call back - cut up
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3. dawn on – dry up
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4. eat away – follow up
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5. get about – get up to
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6. give away – go without
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7. hand around – hold up as
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8. identify with – knock up
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9. lapse into – level with
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10. lie around – look up to
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11. make away with – open up
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12. pass around – polish up
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13. pull ahead – put up with
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14. read into – rush out
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15. save on – serve out
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16. set about – shoot up
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17. show around – slip up
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18. slow down – start up
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19. stay behind – switch over
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20. take aback – talk up
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21. tear apart – tie up
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22. touch at – turn up
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23. use up – yield to
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List 15 - Common Idioms (1)
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Common Idioms
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List 16 - 1000 Phrases & Idioms (10)
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Phrases and Idioms 001-100 (acid - call)
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Phrases and Idioms 101-200 (call - crime)
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Phrases and Idioms 201-300 (critical - event)
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Phrases and Idioms 301-400 (ever - half)
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Phrases and Idioms 401-500 (hammer - kick)
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Phrases and Idioms 501-600 (killing - mind)
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Phrases and Idioms 601-700 (mind - part)
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Phrases and Idioms 701-800 (past - rough)
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Phrases and Idioms 801-900 (rough - state)
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Phrases and Idioms 901-1000 (state - world)
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List 17 - Proverbs and Sayings (4)
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Proverbs and Sayings 001-100
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Proverbs and Sayings 101-200
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Proverbs and Sayings 201-300
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Proverbs and Sayings 301-370
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List 18 - Foreign Phrases Commonly Used in English (6)
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Foreign Phrases Commonly Used in English
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List 19 – Parent-Offspring Names
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Parent-Offspring Names
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List 20 - Gender (3)
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Masculine and Feminine Gender (People)
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Masculine and Feminine Gender (Creatures)
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Common Gender (People & Creatures)
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List 21 - Homes of people and creatures
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Homes of people and creatures
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List 22 - Objects, Animals and Sounds
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Objects, Animals and Sounds
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List 23 - Antonyms
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Antonyms
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List 24 - Synonyms
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Synonyms
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List 25 - Homonyms
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Homonyms
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