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Fundamentals

Much of what even advanced students learn is built on basic concepts, so here are some tricks to help your students get those concepts right from the very start.
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Passive Forms

Passive words, phrases, and sentences are used when the focus is on the result of an action instead of the action itself or its cause.
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Question Forms

Interrogative structure is a bit different from declarative structure. Furthermore, there are quite a few ways to ask a question. Let's explore them.
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Tenses

Tenses are used to express when verbs took place in relation to other verbs or time periods. Explore not only the individual tenses, but their common aspects.
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Helping Verbs

It turns out auxiliary verbs are the key to several different sentence configurations. Understanding how they work grants us mastery of the English language.
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Verbals

The meaning of an INFINITIVE, GERUND, or PARTICIPLE is based on its verb form, but as a verbal it takes the role of a different part of speech.
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Indirect Speech

Instead of direct speech, we often use more round-about ways of communicating. The results might be easier to fit into the flow of the context, or it might be more polite.
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Unreal Mood

We use the Unreal Mood to talk about things that are uncertain or outright impossible. Hypothetical situations, like with many conditionals, are unreal.
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Modifier Clauses

Embedded RELATIVE CLAUSES and ADVERBIAL CLAUSES fill a particular role (like that of an adjective or adverb) within main clauses to create complex sentences.
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Noun Phrases

Noun Phrases include determiners, adjectives, nouns, and/or pronouns. These phrases can be a single word, a clause, or anything between.
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Complex Sentences

Using complex sentences is a mark of fluency; we use them to improve the flow of speech/writing and to fit related information together into a single sentence.
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Complex Sentences is largely a combination of the Modifier Clauses series and relevant topics from Indirect Speech and Unreal Mood.

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