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It was a dark and stormy night. |
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Narration of past events. |
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Present perfect as opposed to past simple. Past simple as opposed to past continuous and past perfect |
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Any regrets? |
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Talking about past regrets. |
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Should have and Ought to have |
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It's sad, but true. |
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Small talk; Giving reasons. |
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Non-defining relative clauses. Noun clauses introduced by "it". |
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He should have been more understanding. |
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Talking about feelings for things people did or didn't do. |
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Adjectives of emotion and past time clauses where the use of that is optional. |
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Employees wanting to learn more should take notes. |
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Discussing how to reach one's goals. |
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Reduced Relative Clauses |
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Photographers have the best toys, which is why I love my job. |
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Talking about ways to solve problems. |
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Non-defining relative clauses as sentence modifiers |
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Something that really bothers me is when customers are so demanding. |
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Talking about personal grievances. |
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Relative clauses in noun clauses |
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I don't know why she never told me about her background. |
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Analyzing people's behavior. |
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Noun clauses that start with question words, whether and if |
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You will have made many new friends. |
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Start of something new. |
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Future perfect and future perfect continuous |
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I'm anxious about leaving him in a kennel. |
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Feelings about change. |
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Gerunds functioning as objects of the preposition |
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If I hadn't taken his leash off, I wouldn't have lost him. |
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Talking about hypothetical situations. |
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Mixed conditionals. Conditional sentences combine present and past time to talk about hypothetical situations. |
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Besides which, I was missing Cedric. |
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Giving additional information and concluding. |
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Moreover, furthermore, and in addition give additional information while thus, therefore and consequently show result or conclude a statement. |
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