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2 Grammar Review 2.1 Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1.1 Common and Proper Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1.2 Singular and Plural Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1.3 Countable and Uncountable Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1.4 Collective Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.1 Pronoun Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.2 Nominative and Objective Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.3 Possessive Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.4 Agreement & Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4 Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4.1 Adverbial Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4.2 Adverbial Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 Adverbs vs. Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5.1 Position and Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5.2 Adverbs and Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5.3 Adjectives Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6 Prepositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6.1 Preposition Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6.2 Prepositi itions Frequently Misused . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6.3 Idioms with Prepositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7 Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7.1 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7.2 Active and Passive Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7.3 Major Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7. 2.7.4 4 Mood Moods: s: Indi Indica cati tive ve,, Im Impe pera rati tive ve and and Subj Subjun unct ctiv ive e mood moods s . . 2.7.5 Participle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7.5.1 Present Participle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7.5.2 Past Participle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7.5.3 Special Situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7.6 Gerunds & Infinitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8 Conjunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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