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GRAMMAR UNDER THE HAMMER

Elementary

Some LP Elementary Students don’t know that:

DO is used as an auxiliary verb to form a question in the Present Simple tense, that is, to see if an actions happens regularly or habitually, e.g.

DO you play tennis?

And if the answer is negative you must use it again:
No, I DO NOT (DON’T) play tennis
If it is third person singular, we use DOES and DOESN’T
Pre-Intermediate

All LP Pre-intermediate students should know that:

MUST can be used for the present or future but it has no past tense. If you want to say that you went to the doctor yesterday because it was necessary for you to go, you can say:
“Yesterday I HAD TO go to the doctor.”
You can say “I must go to work from Monday to Friday” but “I HAD TO go to work last Sunday because there was an emergency in the factory”
Intermediate

Many LP Intermediate students know that:

PURPOSE can be expressed in different ways but the easiest and perhaps most common way is to use the INFINITIVE

TO GO to work I need a car,
You need to study TO PASS the exam

Advanced

Maybe not all Advanced pupils will know that:

The phrasal verb TO EGG ON means to encourage somebody to do something, especially while watching them compete against others in some physical contest, e.g

John EGGED ON his 9 year-old son as he was competing in the under-10 school running championships.
Native

Every Native speaker knows that:

The idiomatic expression To MAKE IT means TO BECOME A SUCCESS:

In Frank Sinatra’s song New York, New York there is a line “If you can MAKE IT there, you can MAKE IT anywhere”

She will have to sell her house when the worst comes to the worstShe’ll have to sell her house if things get worse than they are at the momentThe bottom line is that she will have to sell her houseThere won’t be any other option open to her if the situation becomes worse than it is now

1 comment

2010-07-15 15:50:32
carlos says...

hi Dermot, your blog is very interesting and i like it , and your web is more interesting than the others webs of english

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Quid Pro Quo

Quid Pro Quo is Latin and it means something for something. It indicates a more-or-less equal exchange or substitution of goods or services in the sense of.

If you do that for me I’ll do that for you. It is usually considered to be a fair exchange by both parties.

Mr Smith and Mrs Robinson have a quid pro quo agreement; he paints her house once a year and she does his gardening every month.

Quid Pro Quo is often used in legal documents.