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English Cheat Sheet 1 (05/10/2015) : Types of Sentences Verbs

The document provides information about English grammar including the different types of sentences, parts of speech, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. It also covers subject verb agreement rules.

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English Cheat Sheet 1 (05/10/2015) : Types of Sentences Verbs

The document provides information about English grammar including the different types of sentences, parts of speech, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. It also covers subject verb agreement rules.

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English Cheat Sheet 1 [05/10/2015]

Types of Sentences
Declarative
Imperative
Interrogative
Exclamatory

Parts of Speech
Nouns

Verbs
Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Sensory Verbs
Auxiliary Verbs

Nouns
Proper Nouns
Common Nouns
Count Nouns

Verbs

Non-count Nouns

Adjectives

Collective Nouns

Pronouns

Subject Verb Agreement

Adverbs
Preposition
Conjunction
Interjection

REAL SUBJECT: Prepositional Phrases between the


subject and the verb do not affect the verb.
e.g. John as well as his wife and two children is taking
a long vacation.
Es: Everybody, Everyone, Every, Each SINGULAR
e.g. Each of the two boys takes a music class.

OF: Half of, A third of, All of, A majority of, Most of,
Some of, Many, ... etc. Verb agrees with the NOUN
AFTER these phrases.
e.g. Half of the students in this school are rich.
THERE: There is, There are Verb agrees with the
ONE NOUN AFTER these phrases.
e.g. There is a mouse and two rats in the corner.
WHO: Since the who refers to the noun before it, the
verb agrees with that noun.
e.g. Sue is one of the women in my office who smoke.
Ns: Neither, Nor Verb agrees with the SECOND
NOUN
e.g. Neither his sisters nor Jack smokes.
UNITS: Units of distance, time, weight, and money are
always SINGULAR.
e.g. Forty-five miles is a long way to walk.
UNCOUNTALBLE & GERUNDS: ncountable nouns
and gerunds are always SINGULAR.
e.g. Mathematics takes a lot of time to master.
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