Hard Level Flashcards
(22 cards)
Similar expression for “it seems that”
It looks as though
Eg➡️ wow it looks as though familiar to me
Gradable adjectives
Expresses difference leves of that quantity
Eg➡️ big , small , boring , cold , interesting , funny and so on
Suffixes. Nouns to verbs
- IFY
➡️ Mort - Mortify
-ISE
➡️ Summary - summarise
- EN
➡️ Strength - strengthen
You can omit the subject (when is repetitive) after …
And , but, or
Eg➡️ Marta went to the supermarket and (Marta) came across with an old high school per but (Marta) didn’t say hi to him
With “let” never …
“To”
Eg➡️ My mother doesn’t let me hang out till midnight
NO my mother doesn’t let me to hang out till midnight
Adverbs used with ungradable adjectives (6)
- Utterly
- Absolutely
- Completely
- Totally
-Entirely
-Really
Giving permission to leave (differences with let and allow)
To let someone go
To allow someone to go
Eg➡️ My boss let me go home earlier yesterday
➡️ My boss allowed me to go home earlier yesterday
Which verbs go in “infinite + to” (note that is only in the infinitive form)
-Agree to
- Ask to
- Attempt to
- Choose to
- Decide to
- Help to
- Expect to
- Refuse to
And so on (literally the are a fucking million verbs with that infinitive + to form)
To cancel (an event for example)
To call of
➡️The organisers called of the concert due to the bad weather
Suffixes . Adjectives to verbs (3)
- EN
➡️ Weak -weaken - IFY
➡️ Simple - simplify - ISE
➡️ Modern -modernise
For describe opinions or feeling that you have towards something
I find (some thing) + adjective
Eg➡️ I find watching football boring
Or
I find it + adjective to (some thing)
Eg➡️ I find it boring to watch football
For expressing certainty
Be bounded to
Eg➡️ It is 21:00 , the supermarket is bounded to be closed
To “have objections” always goes with…
“To”
➡️ Sorry but I have some objections to your statement
With “possessive pronoun + life” …
You can use “In “ or “On”
“In” for personal experience
Eg➡️ I have never tried tequila in my life
“On” is more of swearing an oath
Eg➡️ I swear on my life Sassenach
When something looks strange to you…
“It strike as strange that”
Eg➡️ Wow, it is 11:00 and all the classes are closed . It strike as strange that the teachers left us without telling us anything
Suffixes. Verbs to adjectives (5)
-ABLE/-INLE
➡️Rely -reliable // Flex - flexible
-IVE
➡️Create - creative
-ENT /-ANT
➡️ Depend- dependent // please -pleasant
- ING
➡️ Excite -exciting
-ED
➡️ Tire -tired
Conjunctions of time (11)
-When
-Until
-Whenever
-After
- As soon as
- Before
- As
- No sooner
- Once
- Since
To get rid of something or stop using something
Do away with (something)
➡️ My company did away with Excel two year ago . Now we use Homing!
To improve
To work on (something)
Eg➡️ I’m working on my vocab
“Prevent/protect” and verbs with similar meaning always followed by
“From “ or “against”
Eg➡️ The vaccines protect you from/against bacterial infections
Conjunctions of reason , result and purpose (8)
- Because
- In order to
- In case
- Otherwise
- So
- So as to
- So that
- As
- Because
- In order to
- In case
- Otherwise
- So
- So as to
- So that
- As
