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IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS
A/ AVOID BASIC MISTAKES
Articles
- indefinite: sing.
a/an
I'd like a cup of tea.
- general: sing/pl.
No article
I'like tea/apples
- particular: sing/pl.
the
I don't like the tea in this tea shop
Always with an auxilary
Do you like tea? Would you like some tea?
He won't/will not believe you.
Be V-ing
Present
Past
Present perfect
past perfect
He's working.
He was working.
He has been working all morning.
He had been working all morning.
Present simple
S (third person sing.)
She sings very well.
Past simple
-ed (regular verbs)
- 2nd column (irregular
verbs
She worked yesterday.
She sang at the concert yesterday.
Temps composés
HAVE + past participle
Have you seen him today?
I hadn't thought about it.
“Depuis”
For + duration
since + starting point
(+present perfect or past
perfect)
He hasn't worked for 2 hours.
He hasn't worked since 2 o'clock.
Passive voice
BE + past participle
He was beaten to death.
Conjugation Interrogative and
negative forms
Modals
Modal + Verb base
He mustn't reveal the secret
Modal +have +past
participle
Probability in the past
He must have revealed the secret.
He can't have done it.
Gerund
Verb-ing
used as a noun (after a
preposition, as a subject,
after stop or start...)
I'm fed up with (your) shouting.
(Your) shouting gets on my nerves
Stop shouting!
Infinitive
to+verb
The action is not done yet
I'd like you to stop shouting.
He stopped watching the film to help his
mum.
“Il y a”
Existence
There is+sing/there are+pl
There's a new student in our class.
Are there many students in your school?
Time marker
… ago. (simple past)
He arrived two days ago.
Subject
pronouns
I you he she it
We you they
Before a verb
We went out yesterday.
Object
pronouns
Me you him her it
us you them
After a verb
Lend him this book please!
Possessive
Possessor's (sing.)
possessors' (plural)
Your father's car
Your parents' car
Possession
Possessive adjectives + noun
My, your, his, her, its
our, your, their
Prossessive
pronouns
Without a noun (Your car is Mine, yours, his, hers, its
blue whereas mine is red)
ours, yours, theirs
Reflexive
pronouns
Myself, yourself,
himself, herself
itself, ourselves,
yourselves,
themselves
Relative
pronouns
Subject
Who, which, that
The man who is at the door...
The car which/that is parked in front of the
door...
Object
No pronoun or who(m),
which, that
The man Ø/that/who(m) you can see at the
door....
The car Ø/that/which you can see...
possession
whose
The man whose car is parked in front of the
door.....
Always singular
adj+noun
Short curly black hair
Short adj-er (than)
more + long adj (than)
▲ good-> better
▲ bad-> worse
▲ far-> farther/further
My brother is more athletic than me but I'm
slimmer.
Equality
As + adj + as
so+adj+as (only negative)
His hair is as curly as mine but it is not so
long.
Inferiority
Less + adj + than
He is less tidy than me and less organised.
Superiority
This is my youngest brother, he is the most
talented in the family
▲ Irregular
The + short adj-est
The most + long adj
▲ good-> better
▲ bad-> worse
▲far-> farther/further
Inferiority
The least + adj
I am the least hard-working.
Adjectives
Comparative Superiority
▲Irregular
Superlative
She was looking at herself in the mirror.
The children did it themselves; nobody
helped them
many/much
Many + pl
much + sg
Did you see many people at the concert?
There isn't much cheese left.
Few /little
few + pl
little + sg
There were few people at the concert.
There is little milk left
Linkwords
(see worksheet)
B. No more typical mistakes:
People
People are (sg)
These (pl of this)
Those( pl of that)
w.o. after what
to (purpose)
Children
A child
Who -> that
Must + BV
Want + subject + to
Every +sing
persons
Some people is are waiting at the bus stop.
this
that
ex I don't know what is the problem is.
for to do this …
2 Children(s)
A child(ren)
… a car who is red -> THAT/WHICH
He must to do that
He want that you do He wants you to do
I play tennis every Sunday(s)
C. Understand and correct your mistakes
X
????
3rd p.
art
aux
comp
for/since
Fr
GC
il y a
awk.
Ing
int.
inv
irr.
LK
mod.
neg
pass.
poss
poss. adj.
prep
pron.
rel
sg/pl
sp
Span.
sup
tns
voc
W.O.
omission
meaningless
third person singular
article
auxiliary
comparative
for/since
French
grammatical category
ago/there is/there are
akward
gerund
questions
invariable
irregular form
linking word
modal
negation
passive voice
possessive
possessive adjective
preposition
wrong pronoun
wrong relative pronoun
agreement
spelling
Spanish
superlative
tense
vocabulary
word order
oubli
incompréhensible
“s” 3e personne du sing.
pb article
pb auxiliaire
comparatif
traduction de depuis
gallicisme
nature grammaticale
traduction de “il y a »
Maladroit /mal dit /lourd
gérondif
forme interrogative
invariable
irregulier
mot de liaison
modal
forme negative
voix passive
cas possessif
adjectif possessif
préposition
problème de pronom
problème de relatif
pb accord
orthographe
hispanisme
superlatif
temps
lexique
ordre des mots