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I. Grammatical Structures (continued)
Question forms
inverted word order: verb + subject (e.g., Was he studying?) with do, can (e.g., Do you have it? Can I call you?)
“wh” questions (e.g., Where was it?)
Negation
be in simple past (e.g., They were not interested. They weren’t interested.) negative imperative (e.g., Don’t sit there.)
Prepositions
with simple/literal phrasal verbs (e.g., take off, put on, put away, turn on/off, get up, wait for, look for, look at, talk over)
Sentences
compound sentence with and, but, or, because (e.g., I took the bus, but I was still late. He came late because the bus broke down.)
direct speech (e.g.,“I live on this street,”said Milad.)
indirect speech: no tense change (e.g., He said he lives on this street.)
II. Conventions of Print
Punctuation
comma: for items in a list; for direct speech
quotation marks
period with high-frequency abbreviations (e.g., Dr., apt., hr., min.)
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