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Agreement in Number
Tenses Revision
Conditionals Revision
GRAMMAR REVISION
AGREEMENT IN NUMBER
Rule 1:



The girl over there is a friend of mine.
The students are very hard-working.
S(singular)  V(singular)
S(plural)  V(plural)
For examples, refer to your textbook, p. 55
Uncountable nouns
One of the (possessive case)
Each/Every (of)
The number of
Names
None of the
Singular verb
For examples, refer to your textbook, p. 56
The + adjective
Some (of the) + plural noun
A lot of + plural noun
A number of
Two-thirds of + plural noun
Plural verb
Rule 2:



Nurses at the Intensive care Unit (need) to monitor the vital signs of the patient every hour.
Mai, along with her other friends, (go) shopping every weekend.
Noun 1 + Preposition + Noun 2 + Verb
 Verb is determined by: Noun 1
Rule 3:




John wants to become a politician who (make) his country more prosperous.
Peter works closely with people who (manage) orders from production to delivery.
Noun + Relative Pronoun + Verb
Verb = singular if Noun = singular
Verb = plural if Noun = plural
Rule 4:
This / That  singular
These / those / many / several / all / some  plural
Another  singular
Other  plural
TENSES AND CONDITIONALS
The simple present tense
Habits or routines
Something which is always true
Signals: always, usually, often, occasionally, sometimes, seldom, never
The simple past tense:
An action started and was completed in the past, with no interference in the present or future
Last
Ago
Previous
On/in/at + time (past)
Some other past phrases: yesterday, at that time, in those days
The simple future:
A general prediction that something will happen at a specific time in the future.
Tomorrow
Next week/ month/ year
Within the next three weeks
In the upcoming year
Two weeks from now
Until + time (future)
As of + time (future)
Present perfect
An action started in the past, and has continued up to the present with a possibility to last up to the future
In the past years
For the past two years
For the last two months
Over the past three years
During the last fiscal year
Throughout the year
Recently / lately
Already
Just
Since
So far / up to now/ up to the present
The past perfect:
Express the idea that something occurred before another action. Both actions happened in the past.
Before
After
When
As soon as
By the time
The future perfect:
A completed action before a particular point in the future
By + a point of time
For + a duration of time
AGREEMENT IN TENSE




Even before the warning was issued, Mr. Lee claimed responsibility for approving the purchase of the faulty equipment.
When the company was restructuring its automobile division, the management had to solve many problems with the labor union.
Main clause
Subordinate clause
Past tenses
Past tenses
SOME EXCEPTIONS TO AGREEMENT IN TENSE








Main clause
Verb: Future
Subordinate clause
Of condition: If / Unless/ In case / As long as
Of time: When / After/ Before / As soon as / Until
Verb: Present
suggest / postpone
Insist / urge
Ask/ demand / require / request
that S + (should) bare infinitive
It is +
difficult/ mandatory/ vital/ imperative/ important/ compulsory/ necessary/ essential
A REVISION OF CONDITIONALS
CONDITIONALS WITHOUT AN IF
Without
But for
Were it not for
Had it not been for
If Danny didn’t help us, we wouldn’t win.
Without Danny’s help, we wouldn’t win.
But for Danny’s help, we wouldn’t win.
Were it not for Danny’s help, we wouldn’t win.
SHOULD
WERE
HAD
INVERSIONS:
Type 1
Type 3
Type 2
SHOULD:
If you happen to see him  Should you see him,
If you come here  Should you come here,
WERE:
If I were you,  Were I you,
If I were to tell you  Were I to tell you
HAD:
If the engine parts had been delivered earlier  Had the engine parts been delivered earlier,
If we had known the answers before  Had we known the answers before
THE END!