English Cheat Sheet 1 [05/10/2015]

Types of Sentences
Declarative
Imperative
Interrogative
Exclamatory

Parts of Speech
Nouns

Verbs
Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Sensory Verbs
Auxiliary Verbs

Nouns
Proper Nouns
Common Nouns
Count Nouns

Verbs

Non-count Nouns

Adjectives

Collective Nouns

Pronouns

Subject Verb Agreement

Adverbs
Preposition
Conjunction
Interjection

REAL SUBJECT: Prepositional Phrases between the

subject and the verb do not affect the verb.
e.g. John as well as his wife and two children is taking
a long vacation.
Es: Everybody, Everyone, Every, Each SINGULAR
e.g. Each of the two boys takes a music class.

OF: Half of, A third of, All of, A majority of, Most of,
Some of, Many, ... etc. Verb agrees with the NOUN
AFTER these phrases.
e.g. Half of the students in this school are rich.
THERE: There is, There are Verb agrees with the
ONE NOUN AFTER these phrases.
e.g. There is a mouse and two rats in the corner.
WHO: Since the who refers to the noun before it, the
verb agrees with that noun.
e.g. Sue is one of the women in my office who smoke.
Ns: Neither, Nor Verb agrees with the SECOND
NOUN
e.g. Neither his sisters nor Jack smokes.
UNITS: Units of distance, time, weight, and money are
always SINGULAR.
e.g. Forty-five miles is a long way to walk.
UNCOUNTALBLE & GERUNDS: ncountable nouns
and gerunds are always SINGULAR.
e.g. Mathematics takes a lot of time to master.
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