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Defining relative clause
Form: passive voice
Nouns which are always plural
Pronouns used in defining relative clauses
Eric Hoffer
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Participle clauses
Participles in non-finite relative clauses
Present simple for general truths
The difference between countable and uncountable nouns
Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
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WHAT (the thing(s) that/which)
Wishes about the present
Frank A. Clark
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
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Modals to express ability: CAN, COULD, BE ABLE TO
Zero conditional
Frank A. Clark
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
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Defining relative clause
Modals to express obligation: SHOULD, OUGHT TO
Pronouns used in defining relative clauses
The difference between countable and uncountable nouns
The infinitive of purpose
The semi-modal NEED
Galileo Galilei
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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Modals to express ability: CAN, COULD, BE ABLE TO
Present perfect for past events
Present perfect with an incomplete period
George Eliot
It is never too late to be who you might have been.
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Adjective + TO-infinitive
Modals to express possibility: MAY, MIGHT, CAN, COULD
George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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The TO-infinitive as subject
The zero article with names of days, months, seasons, holidays and parts of the day
Haim Ginott
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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AS IF / AS THOUGH
Present simple for present habits and states
Hal Borland
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
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BE BOUND + TO-infinitive
Defining relative clause
Pronouns used in defining relative clauses
The indefinite article to describe and classify something
The zero article with names of days, months, seasons, holidays and parts of the day
Hal Borland
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Present simple for general truths
Hanoch McCarty
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
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Cleft sentences
Defining relative clause
Pronouns used in defining relative clauses
Harlan Miller
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
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Wishes about the present
Harry "Breaker" Harbord Morant
Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you're sure to be right.
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AS IF / AS THOUGH
BE GOING TO for predictions
Determiners with countable and uncountable nouns (SOME, ANY, NO, MANY, MUCH, FEW, LITTLE etc.)
Heinrich Heine
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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Form: passive voice
Third conditional
Helen Rowland
You will never win if you never begin.
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First conditional
Future simple for predictions
Future simple in complex sentences
Henry David Thoreau
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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AS IF / AS THOUGH
Henry David Thoreau
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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Adjective + TO-infinitive
Defining relative clause
Present simple for general truths
Pronouns used in defining relative clauses
The continuous aspect
The difference between countable and uncountable nouns
The forms of the infinitive
Henry Ford
There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can.
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Defining relative clause
Modals to express ability: CAN, COULD, BE ABLE TO
Participle clauses
Participles in non-finite relative clauses
Pronouns used in defining relative clauses
Henry Miller
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
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Modals to express obligation: SHOULD, OUGHT TO
The infinitive of purpose
Herbert Prochnow
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
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Defining relative clause
Nouns which are always plural
Relative adverbs: WHERE, WHEN, WHY
The indefinite article with a member of a class
Hippocrates
Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.
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HAVE, GET, LET, MAKE + object + infinitive
Irish proverb
If you do not sow in the spring, you will not reap in the autumn.
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First conditional
Future simple for predictions
Future simple in complex sentences
Isaac Asimov
What would I do if I had only six months left to live? I'd type faster.
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Second conditional
The modal WOULD to express unreal situations
Jim Rohn
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
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Present simple for general truths
The difference between countable and uncountable nouns
WHAT (the thing(s) that/which)
Joey Adams
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
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IF, EVEN IF, ONLY IF, AS LONG AS, PROVIDED, SUPPOSING, UNLESS, BUT FOR, IF NECESSARY, IF SO, IN CASE etc.
Second conditional
The modal WOULD to express unreal situations
John A. Simone, Sr.
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
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First conditional
Future simple for predictions
Imperatives in the first conditional
John Wooden
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
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Defining relative clause
Modals to express ability: CAN, COULD, BE ABLE TO
Pronouns used in defining relative clauses
The indefinite article with a member of a class
Kelvin Throop
If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.