Topic outline

  • General

  • PHRASES

  • CLAUSES

    • Noun Clauses File

      Noun clauses are dependent clauses that perform the same functions that regular nouns do.

      They can be:
      a. subjects
      b. objects
      c. subject complements
      d. adjective complements

      Noun clauses begin with that. question words. or whether or if

    • Adjective Clauses File

      An adjective clause is a dependent clause. It modifies a noun or a pronoun in a main clause.

      An adjective clause often begins with a relative pronoun: who, whom, which, or that. It can also begin with whose, when, or when. The word that begins an adjective clause usually comes directly after the noun or pronoun that the clause modifies.

    • Adverb Clauses File

      Adverb clauses are dependent clauses that indicate how, when, where, why, or under what conditions
      things happen; or they introduce a contrast.

      Adverb clauses begin with subordinating conjuncdons (also called subordinating adverbs), which can be either single words or phrases.

      1- Adverb clauses of time indicate when something happens. They are introduced by after, as, as soon as, before, by the time, once, since, until/till, when, whenever, while, etc.

      2- Adverb clauses of place indicate where something happens. They are introduced by anywhere, everywhere, where, wherever, etc.

      3- Adverb clauses of reason indicate why something happens. They are introduced by as, because, now
      that (= because now), since,       etc.

      4- Adverb clauses of condition indicate under what conditions something happens. They are introduced
      by even if. if. only if, unless, etc.

      5- Adverb clauses of contrast make a contrast with the idea expressed in the independent clause. They are
      introduced by although, even though, though, whereas, while, etc.



  • Topic 3

    • Research-practise work Assignment
      The student is to carry out a research on all possible phrasal verbs of a certain given verb ( either the verb: to come, to get, to go, to look, to put, to keep, to take, to make, to talk, to see, to set or to let) along with the meaning or the sense of these verbs; the student should then choose five phrasal verbs from those found and use them in personal/original sentences.

  • Topic 4

    • Topic 5