Choose the correct word to fill in the gap
- I really didn't want to come last night. Neither did I.
When agreeing with a negative statement, use "neither + auxiliary in the opposite form to the original statement + subject"
- Do you think he knows what he wants?
It is not necessary to invert in indirect questions.
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I think San Francisco is as exciting as New York.
Use "as ... as" to express comparative equality.
- Why are you hands so dirty? - I have been working in the garden.
Use the present perfect continuous to explain the action that has caused a present result.
- Did you remember to lock the door?
With the verb "to remember" use the infinitive to express the action of remembering. Use the gerund (-ing) to express having the memory of something. For example: I remember playing football every day.
- Which model goes 250 k.p.h.?
In a subject question do not use the usual inverted question form. For example: Which model did you buy? - here "which model" is the object. In the example, "which model" is the subject of the question.
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That is the man whose grandfather founded Kentucky Root Beer.
"Whose" is used as a possessive relative pronoun.
- I could hardly make out the ship in the distance.
"To make out" is a phrasal verb that means "to see with difficulty".
- Look at those clouds! It's going to rain!
If a prediction is based on physical evidence for something that is about to happen, use the future with "going to".
- Unless he comes, we won't have much to talk about.
"Unless" can be used to mean "if ... not" in the first conditional to speak about real and/or possible future events.
- He has no interest in continuing the project.
Use "no" plus a noun to mean the same as "not any".
- Where do you think Anne was yesterday evening? - She must have been at home.
"Must have been" is a modal verb of probability expressing certainty about a past event.
- Jack told her that he was going to come the next day.
In reported speech go one step back into the past and change the time signifier as well as the pronoun. The original sentence is: Jack told her, "I'm going to come tomorrow."
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