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Going to + be + P2
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Am/Is/Are +be + P2
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If I had klnown that I was going to fail the exam...
... you think about these things? Write a sentence about each one. Begin with In my
opinion /I think /I don’t think /I don’t agree with /I’m against /I’m in favour of
1 (terrorism)
2 (smoking)
3 ... teacher accused
60.3 Write some sentences about yourself. Use -ing.
1 This evening I feel like
2 I’m looking forward to
3 I’m thinking of
4 I would never dream of
UNIT 61: EXPRESSIONS + -ING (Thành ... train. (prefer)
5 It’s a pity I didn’t see the film. (like)
UNIT 57: INFINITIVE or -ING (Động từ nguyên mẫu hay -ING) (2) với begin, start, intend,
continue, remember, try
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... stopped doing some things and started doing other things:
He stopped studying hard/going to bed early/running three miles e3very morning
He started smoking/going out in the evening/spending a lot ... of selling my car. (think) Would you be interested in buying it? Am thinking
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car. (think) You it very often. (not /use) think, don’t use
11. I used to drink a lot ... covered in paint. She has been painting the ceiling.
Has been Painting is the present perfect
We are interested in the activity. It does not matter whether something has been finished or not. In...
... sentence.
1 I’m playing tennis tomorrow unless/providing it’s raining.
2 We’re going to start painting the house tomorrow unless/provided it’s not raining.
3 You can’t smoke in here unless/as long ... Spain in our holidays ans swam in Mediterranean.
Ton has visited most countries in western Europe.
A friend of mine used to work as a reporter in Middle East.
Next year we are going skiing in ... moon. (since i was a child)
5 My brother is studying languages at university. (for 2 years)
6 Tim and Jane are working in Sheffied. (since February)
7 My cousin is in the army. (since he was...
... sentence.
1 I’m playing tennis tomorrow unless/providing it’s raining.
2 We’re going to start painting the house tomorrow unless/provided it’s not raining.
3 You can’t smoke in here unless/as long ... home. I was feeling very tired
3 The old man was walking along the street. He was talking to himself.
The old man
In these sentences one thing happens during another.
4 Ann was watching television. ... Make sentences beginning -ing or not-ing.
1 I thought they might be hungry. So I offered them something to eat.
Thinking
2 She is a foreigner. So she needs a visa to stay in this country.
3...
... the verb.
Infinitives with to are referred to specifically as TO-INFINITIVES, in order to distinguish
them from BARE INFINITIVES, in which to is absent:
To-infinitive Bare infinitive
Help ... has certain merits, since it allows us to determine word classes by replacing
words in a sentence with words of "similar" meaning. For instance, in the sentence My son
cooks dinner every ... an informed study of grammar, we
need a much more reliable and more systematic method than this for distinguishing between
word classes.
We use a combination of three criteria for determining...
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