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UoE Notes

English grammar explained

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TO READ a habit But normally there is no big

difference in meaning
READING Enjoying the process

GO ON + INFINITIVE To change the activity

GO ON + GERUND To continue with the same thing

REGRET + INFINITIVE To tell bad news (being sad)

REGRET + GERUND To do sth in the past and not be happy


about it

REMEMBER + INFINITIVE Look into the future

REMEMBER + GERUND To think about sth in the past

STOP + INFINITIVE Stop in order to do sth else

STOP + GERUND To stop with the activity/habit etc.

TRY + INFINITIVE To do something that is not easy

TRY + GERUND Like a test of sth

COME + INFINITIVE Talking about a something that gradually


changed

COME + GERUND That sth came your way

We can use HAVE + OBJECT + BARE INFINITIVE when we say that we caused someone
to do something. > I had him wait for me.

VERB + TO HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE To talk about an event that happened


earlier or is complete

VERB + HAVING + PAST PARTICIPLE To emphasise that one action happens


before another

VERB + TO BE + PRESENT/PAST Future actions


PARTICIPLE
NICE TO TALK TO YOU Sth like it will be nice to talk to you

NICE TALKING TO YOU That the conversation has been nice

When reporting, we often leave out that in informal contexts, particularly with words such as:
reckon, say, tell, think. > Sue reckoned (that) the expansion would actually damage
tourism.

TIME / PLACE EXPRESSIONS

TODAY THAT DAY

TONIGHT THAT NIGHT

NOW THEN

YESTERDAY THE DAY BEFORE

DAYS AGO DAYS BEFORE

LAST WEEK THE WEEK BEFORE

TOMORROW THE FOLLOWING/NEXT DAY

HERE THERE

THIS THAT

THESE THOSE
To see her blush so much, you’d think she is really shy. But it seems it’s just her
complexion because, in fact, she’s a party animal. > infinitive to emphasise a false
assumption

You shouldn’t disclose too much about the aim of the study in the instructions so that
the participants are not primed. > you influence them somehow so that their behaviour
changes

If something is a proverb, you don’t need to backshift.

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