English Cheat Sheet 1 [19/09/2015]

Types of Sentences

Declarative
Imperative
Interrogative
Exclamatory

Parts of Speech

Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Pronouns
Adverbs
Preposition
Conjunction
Interjection

Verbs

Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Sensory Verbs
Auxiliary Verbs

Nouns
Proper Nouns
Common Nouns
Count Nouns
Non-count Nouns
Collective Nouns

Subject Verb Agreement

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.

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.

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.

Used at the very beginning of a document:

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contents and \end{document} to end the document.

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.

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