Comparative and Superlative

Forming Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Imperative Sentence

The Imperative Sentence

Learn About It

An imperative sentence gives a command. It usually end with a period, but it may also end with an exclamation point (!).

Commands ask or tell people to do something.

"Please pass the salt." is a command, that does not sound as commanding as, "Get out of my way!" But, both of these sentences are imperatives because they are both asking or telling someone to do something.

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Finding the Subject

This may sound strange, but every single command has the same subject! Yikes! How is that even possible?

Well, since commands are always speaking to someone or something (you've got to address them if you're going to ask them to do something), the subject is always the word you.

You may have noticed, the word "you" is not even in a command. Because of this, the subject is actually called you understood, and it is written like this: (you)

This means that the subject is the word you, but since it is not written or spoken in the sentence, it is understood and is therefore in parentheses.

Imperative	Subject
Please find my yellow leotard.	(you)
Shut the door!	(you)
Be there at 5:00.	(you)

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Diagramming Commands

You'll notice that every command has the same subject, (you).

Please find my yellow leotard.

Shut the door!

Be there at 5:00.

 

The Sentence Types

Learn All About Them

We use different sentence types each day because we have different purposes for our sentences.

When we categorize sentences based on their purpose, there are four different types of sentences.

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1. Statements

Sometime we just want to make a statement.

A declarative sentence makes a statement.

It is the most common type of sentence. We use these guys all the time.

This butter used to be in the cupboard.

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2. Questions

Sometimes we want to ask a question.

An interrogative sentence asks a question.

Where is the butter?

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3. Exclamations

Sometimes we want to shout.

An exclamatory sentence makes a statement with emotion!

It always ends with an exclamation mark.

 I can't find the butter!

These types of sentences show the most energy of all of the types of sentences. For that reason, I sure like exclamatory sentences!

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4. Commands

Sometimes we want to give a command.

An imperative sentence is a command.

 Show me the butter.

Note that although you can sound jerky when you use commands (Bring me my book...now!), you are even using commands when you use the word please.

So even though you may say:

Please show me the butter.

The sentence is still called a command.

 

Order Your  answer. (fill in the blank)

1. wet. Don't the camera let get

 
 

2. Let's the cinema. to go

 
 

3. speak that. like Don't 

 

4. attention pay to her. Don't

 
 

5. to the tonight. Let go her party

 
 

6. Don't fast. too drive 

 

7. door. Close the 

 

8. your open page book 26. Sit down and

 
 

9. You, to listen me. 

 

10. word. say not Let's a  

Check your answer!!!

1.  DON'T LET THE CAMERA GET WET.
2.LET'S GO TO THE CINEMA.
3.DON'T SPEAK LIKE THAT.
4.DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO HER.
5.  LET HER GO TO THE PARTY TONIGHT.
6. DON'T DRIVE TOO FAST.
7.  CLOSE THE DOOR.
8.SIT DOWN AND OPEN YOUR BOOK PAGE 26.
9.YOU, LISTEN TO ME.
10. LET'S NOT SAY A WORD.
 

Reference

http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/imperative-sentence.html

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-8768.php

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/english_lessons/imperative-sentences

http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=94406

Present simple

 

We use the present simple to talk about actions we see as long term or permanent. It is a very common and very important tense.

Here, we are talking about regular actions or events.

• They drive to the office every day.
• She doesn't come here very often.
• The news usually starts at 6.00 every evening.
• Do you usually have bacon and eggs for breakfast?

Here, we are talking about facts.

• We have two children.
• Water freezes at 0° C or 32° F.
• What does this expression mean?
• The Thames flows through London.

Here, we are talking about future facts, usually found in a timetable or a chart.

• Christmas Day falls on a Monday this year.
• The plane leaves at 5.00 tomorrow morning.
• Ramadan doesn't start for another 3 weeks.
• Does the class begin at 10 or 11 this week?

Here, we are talking about our thoughts and feelings at the time of speaking. Although these feelings can be short-term, we use the present simple and not the present continuous.

• They don't ever agree with us.
• I think you are right.
• She doesn't want you to do it.
• Do you understand what I am trying to say.

 

Present Simple Sentences - Affirmative

	David / hate / alcohol
2	my / play / brothers / basketball
3	I / drink / sometimes / coffee
4	Pili and Sofia / like / ice cream
5	never / I / read / a / book
6	my sister / parties / enjoy
7	brother / your / friendly / look /
8	teacher / my / like / music
9	go / the disco / to / we / Saturday/ on
10	she / study / every / day
Simple Present Tense Simple Present gap-fill exercise Fill in all the gaps, with the words in the box. Press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!    brush      comb      dry      eat      get dressed      get up      go      have      make      pick up      put on      rings      wake up      wear    Every weekday morning I  as soon as my alarm . After 10 minutes I  and go to the bathroom. I  a shower, my teeth and  my hair. After my shower I  myself with a big towel and go back to the bedroom. In the bedroom I  my makeup and , I sometimes  trousers and a blouse or top with sandals or shoes. Next I usually go to the kitchen and myself a cup of tea, although I sometimes drink coffee instead of tea. For breakfast I often  cornflakes, toast and marmalade and a piece of fruit. After breakfast I  my car keys and  to work.

Preposition

Preposition

             A preposition describes a relationship between other words prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases can be made up of a million different words, but they tend to be built the same: a preposition followed by a determiner and an adjective or two, followed by a pronoun or noun (called the object of the preposition). This whole phrase, in turn, takes on a modifying role, acting as an adjective or an adverb, locating something in time and space, modifying a noun, or telling when or where or under what conditions something happened.

in a sentence. In itself, a word like "in" or "after" is rather meaningless and hard to define in mere words. For instance, when you do try to define a preposition like "in" or "between" or "on," you invariably use your hands to show how something is situated in relationship to something else. Prepositions are nearly always combined with other words in structures called

Consider the professor's desk and all the prepositional phrases we can use while talking about it.

You can sit before the desk (or in front of the desk). The professor can sit on the desk (when he's being informal) or behind the desk, and then his feet are under the desk or beneath the desk. He can stand beside the desk (meaning next to the desk), before the desk, between the desk and you, or even on the desk (if he's really strange). If he's clumsy, he can bump into the desk or try to walk through the desk (and stuff would fall off the desk). Passing his hands over the desk or resting his elbows upon the desk, he often looks across the desk and speaks of the desk or concerning the desk as if there were nothing else like the desk. Because he thinks of nothing except the desk, sometimes you wonder about the desk, what's in the desk, what he paid for the desk, and if he could live without the desk. You can walk toward the desk, to the desk, around the desk, by the desk, and even past the desk while he sits at the desk or leans against the desk.

All of this happens, of course, in time: during the class, before the class, until the class, throughout the class, after the class, etc. And the professor can sit there in a bad mood [another adverbial construction].

Those words in bold blue font are all prepositions. Some prepositions do other things besides locate in space or time — "My brother is like my father." "Everyone in the class except me got the answer." — but nearly all of them modify in one way or another. It is possible for a preposition phrase to act as a noun — "During a church service is not a good time to discuss picnic plans" or "In the South Pacific is where I long to be" — but this is seldom appropriate in formal or academic writing.

You may have learned that ending a sentence with a preposition is a serious breach of grammatical etiquette. It doesn't take a grammarian to spot a sentence-ending preposition, so this is an easy rule to get caught up on (!). Although it is often easy to remedy the offending preposition, sometimes it isn't, and repair efforts sometimes result in a clumsy sentence. "Indicate the book you are quoting from" is not greatly improved with "Indicate from which book you are quoting." Based on shaky historical precedent, the rule itself is a latecomer to the rules of writing. Those who dislike the rule are fond of recalling Churchill's rejoinder: "That is nonsense up with which I shall not put." We should also remember the child's complaint: "What did you bring that book that I don't like to be read to out of up for?"

Is it any wonder that prepositions create such troubles for students for whom English is a second language? We say we are at the hospital to visit a friend who is in the hospital. We lie in bed but on the couch. We watch a film at the theater but on television. For native speakers, these little words present little difficulty, but try to learn another language, any other language, and you will quickly discover that prepositions are troublesome wherever you live and learn. This page contains some interesting (sometimes troublesome) prepositions with brief usage notes. To address all the potential difficulties with prepositions in idiomatic usage would require volumes, and the only way English language learners can begin to master the intricacies of preposition usage is through practice and paying close attention to speech and the written word. Keeping a good dictionary close at hand (to hand?) is an important first step.

Prepositions of Time: at, on, and in

We use at to designate specific times.
The train is due at 12:15 p.m.

We use on to designate days and dates.
My brother is coming on Monday.
We're having a party on the Fourth of July.

We use in for nonspecific times during a day, a month, a season, or a year.
She likes to jog in the morning.
It's too cold in winter to run outside.
He started the job in 1971.
He's going to quit in August.

Prepositions of Place: at, on, and in

We use at for specific addresses.
Grammar English lives at 55 Boretz Road in Durham.

We use on to designate names of streets, avenues, etc.
Her house is on Boretz Road.

And we use in for the names of land-areas (towns, counties, states, countries, and continents).
She lives in Durham.
Durham is in Windham County.
Windham County is in Connecticut.

Prepositions of Location: in, at, and on and No Preposition
IN (the) bed* the bedroom the car (the) class* the library* school*	AT class* home the library* the office school* work	ON the bed* the ceiling the floor the horse the plane the train	NO PREPOSITION downstairs downtown inside outside upstairs uptown
* You may sometimes use different prepositions for these locations.

Prepositions of Movement: to
and No Preposition

We use to in order to express movement toward a place.
They were driving to work together.
She's going to the dentist's office this morning.

Toward and towards are also helpful prepositions to express movement. These are simply variant spellings of the same word; use whichever sounds better to you.
We're moving toward the light.
This is a big step towards the project's completion.

With the words home, downtown, uptown, inside, outside, downstairs, upstairs, we use no preposition.
Grandma went upstairs
Grandpa went home.
They both went outside.

Prepositions of Time: for and since

We use for when we measure time (seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years).
He held his breath for seven minutes.
She's lived there for seven years.
The British and Irish have been quarreling for seven centuries.

We use since with a specific date or time.
He's worked here since 1970.
She's been sitting in the waiting room since two-thirty.

Prepositions with Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs.

Prepositions are sometimes so firmly wedded to other words that they have practically become one word. (In fact, in other languages, such as German, they would have become one word.) This occurs in three categories: nouns, adjectives, and verbs.

NOUNS and PREPOSITIONS
approval of awareness of belief in concern for confusion about desire for	fondness for grasp of hatred of hope for interest in love of	need for participation in reason for respect for success in understanding of

ADJECTIVES and PREPOSITIONS
afraid of angry at aware of capable of careless about familiar with	fond of happy about interested in jealous of made of married to	proud of similar to sorry for sure of tired of worried about

VERBS and PREPOSITIONS
apologize for ask about ask for belong to bring up care for find out	give up grow up look for look forward to look up make up pay for	prepare for study for talk about think about trust in work for worry about

A combination of verb and preposition is called a phrasal verb. The word that is joined to the verb is then called a particle. Please refer to the brief section we have prepared on phrasal verbs for an explanation.

Idiomatic Expressions with Prepositions

• agree to a proposal, with a person, on a price, in principle
• argue about a matter, with a person, for or against a proposition
• compare to to show likenesses, with to show differences (sometimes similarities)
• correspond to a thing, with a person
• differ from an unlike thing, with a person
• live at an address, in a house or city, on a street, with other people

Unnecessary Prepositions

In everyday speech, we fall into some bad habits, using prepositions where they are not necessary. It would be a good idea to eliminate these words altogether, but we must be especially careful not to use them in formal, academic prose.

• She met up with the new coach in the hallway.
• The book fell off of the desk.
• He threw the book out of the window.
• She wouldn't let the cat inside of the house. [or use "in"]
• Where did they go to?
• Put the lamp in back of the couch. [use "behind" instead]
• Where is your college at?

Prepositions in Parallel Form

(Click HERE for a definition and discussion of parallelism.) When two words or phrases are used in parallel and require the same preposition to be idiomatically correct, the preposition does not have to be used twice.

You can wear that outfit in summer and in winter.

The female was both attracted by and distracted by the male's dance.

However, when the idiomatic use of phrases calls for different prepositions, we must be careful not to omit one of them.

The children were interested in and disgusted by the movie.

It was clear that this player could both contribute to and learn from every game he played.

He was fascinated by and enamored of this beguiling woman.

Excercise

Instructions: For each question, choose the single best answer. Make your choice by clicking on its button. You can change your answers at any time. When the quiz is graded, the correct answers will appear in the box after each question.

. My best friend lives ______ Boretz Road.   

a. in

b. on

c. at

2. I'll be ready to leave ____ about twenty minutes.   

a. in

b. on

c. at

3. Since he met his new girlfriend, Juan never seems to be ______ home.   

a. on

b. in

c. at

4. The child responded to his mother's demands ______ throwing a tantrum.   

a. with

b. by

c. from

5. I think she spent the entire afternoon ______ the phone.   

a. on

b. in

c. at

6. I will wait ______ 6:30, but then I'm going home.   

a. from

b. at

c. until

7. The police caught the thief _____ the corner of Cascade and Plum Streets.   

a. in

b. at

c. from

8. My fingers were injured so my sister had to write the note _____ me.   

a. for

b. with

c. to

9. I am not interested _____ buying a new car now.   

a. to

b. for

c. in

10. What are the main ingredients ______ this casserole?   

a. about

b. to

c. of

11. My best friend, John, is named ______ his great-grandfather.   

a. after

b. to

c. about

12. Grandpa stayed up ______ two in the morning.   

a. since

b. for

c. until

13. My parents have been married ______ forty-nine years.   

a. since

b. for

c. until

14. He usually travels to Philadelphia _______ train.   

a. by

b. at

c. with

15. You frequently see this kind of violence ____ television.   

a. with

b. in

c. on

16. I told Mom we'd be home ______ an hour or so.   

a. to

b. in

c. at

17. I was visiting my best friend _____ the hospital.   

a. of

b. at

c. in

18. The professor _______ South Africa amazed the American students with her stories.   

a. from

b. of

c. in

19. I'll see you ____ home when I get there.   

a. in

b. by

c. at

20. It's been snowing ________ Christmas morning.   

a. since

b. for

c. until