A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English

activity adjective equivalents adverbial clauses adverbial particle afternoon anomalous finites anxious auxiliary breakfast brother colloquial style Compare conditional clauses conjunction construction dare defective verb denote Direct Object end position expressed finished finite verb formal front position Future Perfect Tense Future Tense genitive gerund Green hard Harry hear holidays hope hurry indicate infinitive phrase intention interrogative intransitive verbs look main clause means modified morning negative never non-defining Note NOUN PATTERN o'clock omitted past participle pattern the verb placed possible preferred preparatory prepositional phrase present participle Present Perfect Tense Progressive Tense question rain recomposed relative clause relative pronoun sentence Simple Past Tense Simple Present Tense sometimes stressed Subject Complement subsidiary clause suggest table gives examples table illustrates tell that-clause to-infinitive tomorrow usually VERB PATTERN weather week window wish writing yesterday ΙΟ