Engleska-gramatika-lekcije

Take a look at this example situation: Last month Gary was in hospital for an operation. Liz didn’t know this, so she didn’t go to visit him. They met a few days ago. LIZ: If I had known you were in hospital, I would have gone to visit you. When Liz said If I had known…, she indicated that the real situation […]

There are many adjectives ending in -ing and -ed. For example, boring and bored. Study this example situation: Jane has been doing the same job for a very long time. Every day she does exactly the same thing again and again. She doesn’t enjoy it any more and would like to do something different. Jane’s job is boring.

Good/well Good is an adjective. The adverb is well: • Your English is good. but • Susan is a good pianist. but We use well (not ‘good’) with past participles (dressed/known etc.): well-dressed well-known well-educated well-paid But well is also an adjective with the meaning ‘in good health’: • ‘How are you today?’ ‘I’m very

Look at these examples: • Our holiday was too short – the time went very quickly. • The driver of the car was seriously injured in the accident. Quickly and seriously are adverbs. Many adverbs are made from an adjective + -ly: adjective: quick serious careful quiet heavy bad adverb: quickly seriously carefully quietly heavily

Present Continuous, Present Simple, and “be to” and “be about to” The Present Continuous for arrangements Jim: Are you doing anything this evening? Ron: Yes, I’m going to a basketball match. The Knicks are playing the Lakers. I bought my ticket last month. We use the Present Continuous for what someone has arranged to do in the future. Here Ron has

Countable nouns can be singular or plural: a dog a child the evening this party an umbrella dogs some children the evenings these parties two umbrellas Before singular countable nouns you can use a/an: • Goodbye! Have a nice evening. • Do you need an umbrella? You cannot use singular countable nouns alone (without a/the/my

Many nouns can be used as countable or uncountable nouns, usually with a difference in meaning. Compare: Countable • Did you hear a noise just now? (= a particular noise) • I bought a paper to read. (= a newspaper) • There’s a hair in my soup! (= one single hair) • You can stay with

A noun can be countable or uncountable. Compare: Countable • I eat a banana every day. • I like bananas. Banana is a countable noun. A countable noun can be singular (banana) or plural (bananas). Countable nouns are things we can count. So we can say ‘one banana’, ‘two bananas’ etc. Examples of nouns usually

Form (tvorba) Formation of Past Continuous. (Tvorba Past Continuousa.) Affirmative (potvrdni oblik) Past Continuous is formed of the past of the auxiliary verb BE (WAS, WERE) followed by the main verb in -ING form. (Past Continuous tvori se od prošlog vremena pomoćnog glagola BE (WAS, WERE) iza kojeg stoji glavni glagol u -ING obliku.) • I was helping (pomagao

Form, spelling and pronunciation (tvorba, pisanje i izgovor) Formation of Past Simple, and spelling and pronunciation rules. (Tvorba Past Simplea i pravila pisanja i izgovora.) Affirmative (potvrdni oblik) Past Simple is formed of regular verbs by adding -ed. Irregular verbs have their own forms. See a list of irregular verbs. (Past Simple tvori se od pravilnih glagola dodavanjem

Use of Present Continuous (Upotreba Present Continousa). We use Present Continous for (Present Continous koristimo za): 1. for temporary situations (za privremene situacije) • He’s staying with some friends at the moment. (On trenutačno živi kod nekih prijatelja.) 2. for actions happening at or around the time od speaking (za radnje koje se odvijaju u trenutku govorenja ili oko tog vremena) • He’s looking for a new job at

Verbs which are not usually used in continuous tenses. (Glagoli koji se obično ne koriste u continuous vremenima.) Some verbs (for example know and like) are not action verbs. You cannot say “I am knowing” or “they are liking”; you can only say “I know”, “they like”. (Neki glagoli (na primjer know i like) nisu glagoli radnje. Ne možemo reći “I am knowing” ili “they are liking”;