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Week 3
Present time
Past time
Past happening related to past time.
-He was in prison for ten years.
Future Time
Five main ways of expressing future
time:
a) Will or Shall
b) Be going to
c) Progressive aspect
d) Simple present tense
e) Will/Shall + progressive aspect (rare and
informal)
Frequency
Expressions of frequency answer the
question How many times? or How
often?.
-Upper limit: always
-Lower limit: never
Abstract frequency
-Medical books always seem to cost the earth.
-Children often dislike tomatoes.
-Students rarely fail this course.
At-type prepositions
a
t
to
away
from
(away)
from
Lecture about/on
Learn about
Argue about/on
Read about
Write about/on
A quarrel about
A book about/on
A story about
A discussion about/on
Ignorance about