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 English Alphabet

a[ei]

b[bi:]

c[si:]

d[di:] e[i:]

f[ef]

g[dji:]

h[eitch]

i[ai]

 j[gei]

k[kei]

l[el]

m[em] n[en]

o[ou]

p[pi:]

q[kju:]

r[a:]

s[es]

t[ti:]

u[ju:]

v[vi:] w['dablju:]

x[eks]

y[wai]

z[zed]

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 Present Tense

Forms:

1. Affirmative: S + VB(-s,-es)

2. Negative: S + DO/DOES + NOT + VERB (Inf.)3. Interrogative: DO/DOES + S + VERB (Inf.)

4. Interr.-Negative: DO/DOES + NOT + S + VERB

(Inf.)

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 The verb TO BE

I am

You are

He/She/It is We are

You are

They are

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 The verb TO HAVE

I have

You have

He/She/It has We have

You have

They have

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Examples:  Rules for adding-es/-s

1. Verbs that end in ss,-ch-sh-x

receive es :

2. Verbs that end inconsonant+y, transform y in i

and receive

-es

3. -II- vowel+y receive -s

 

I confess - He confesses,

I push  He pushes,

I box He boxes

I teach- He teaches

I cry- He cries

I try- He tries

I buy He buys

I play- He plays

I do-He does

I go-He goes

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 The verb TO BE

Contractions

Im not English

You arent worried

He isnt famous

She isnt obedient

It isnt comfortable

We arent relatives

You arent fluent

They arent cheap

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 Countries and Nationalities

Country Adjective Language

Australia Australian English

Austria Austrian German

Belgium Belgian French/Flemish

Brazil Brazilian Portuguese Canada Canadian English/French

China Chinese Chinese

Denmark Danish Danish

England English (nat) /British(adj) English France French French

Germany German German

Holland-The Netherlands /Dutch Dutch

Italy Italian Italian

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Japan Japanese Japanese

Korea Korean Korean Mexico Mexican Spanish

Norway Norwegian Norwegian

Portugal Portuguese Portuguese

Spain Spanish Spanish

Sweden Swedish Swedish

Switzerland Swiss German/French/ltalian

The United States American English

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0 zero, oh,nought, nil, love,nothing

1 one 2 two

3 three

4 four

5 five 6 six

7 seven

8 eight

9 nine

10 ten

11 eleven 12 twelve

13 thirteen

14 fourteen

15 fifteen

16 sixteen

17 seventeen

18 eighteen

19 nineteen

20 twenty 21 twenty-one

22 twenty-two

23 twenty-

three

24 twenty-four

25 twenty-five

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 Ways of expressing the number 0

0 = nil in football and other sports, for

scores of 0 (AmE: zero or nothing)

0 = love in tennis

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 Ways of expressing the number 0

0 = zero in temperatures to refer to

freezing point (0° Celsius, 0° Fahrenheit)

0 = nought in mathematics (AmE: zero)

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 Ways of expressing the number 0

0 = oh for telephone

numbers

0 = oh (or zero) for flightnumbers