Greeting - Basic

There are many ways to greet someone. We'll learn about the most common way to greet someone in this lesson. I'll give a variety of example sentences. Greeting someone you never met: "Hi, my name is Steve. It's nice to meet you." You can respond to this by saying, "It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Jack." Another common question to ask is "What do you do for a living?" You can respond to this by saying, "I work at a restaurant." "I work at a bank." "I work in a software company." "I'm a dentist." Usually, you will not need to ask for a name. It is implied that each person should say their name. But in case they don't, you can ask, "What is your name?" Many times, I don't hear the name. If you would like for them to repeat their name, you can say, "What was that again?" "Excuse me?" "Pardon me?"

Greeting Someone you Know

"Hey John, how have you been?" "Hi Bob, how are you?" "Hi Nancy, what have you been up to?"

"Andy, it's been a long time, how are you man?" If you meet someone unexpectedly, you can say, "Hey Jack, it's good to see you. What are you doing here?" or "What a surprise. I haven't seen you in a long time. How have you been?" If you see the person at a restaurant, you can say, "Do you come to this restaurant often?" Or at the movie theatre, "What movie did you come to see?" Appropriate responses: "Hi Steve, my name is Mike. It is nice to meet you as well." "I heard a lot about you from John. He had a lot of good things to say." "Wow. How long has it been? It seems like more than a year. I'm doing pretty well. How about you?" A typical response to this type of greeting is simple. "Not too bad." If asked what you have been up to, you can respond with, "Same ole same ole." Or, "The same as usual." Here are some other example responses. "I'm pretty busy at work these days, but otherwise, everything is great." "I'm doing very well." "I finally have some free time. I just finished taking a big examination, and I'm so relieved that I'm done with it." Restaurant Responses "I've been here a couple of times, but I don't come on a regular basis." "I come pretty often. This is my favorite restaurant." "I can't believe we haven't seen each other before. I come here at least twice a week." Movie Response "I came here to see Matrix Revolution. How about you?"

Common English sentences spoken in the party or feast:

Come in please. Please have something cold. Come for a walk please. Ill be glad to do so. Lets go by bus. Will you come over here? Will you like to come with us to cinema? Will you spend the whole day with us? Will you join me in the dance? No, I dont dance. Would you like to play cards? No, I dont know to play them. Here is an invitation card for you. Thanks for your invitation to dinner. Thank you for remembering me. Could you join us in a taxi tour?

Common English Sentences for Daily Use while meeting someone and leaving:

Hello! How are you? Very well thank you, and you? I am fine. I am glad to see you. Come in please. Please have something cold. Come for a walk please. Ill be glad to do so. I have heard a lot about you. Look who is it? Are you surprised to see me? Ok see you again. Must you go now? Have a pleasant journey. God bless you. May luck be with you. Please convey my regards to father.

I was there but returned last week. Its been a long time since we met.

How to Say Thanks:

Thanks a lot. Thanks for your advice. Thanks for your invitation. Im very grateful to you. Thanks for the gift. This is very costly. You are very kind. Not at all, its my pleasure. This is no matter of kindness, it will rather please me. Wish you a happy new year. Hartley felicitation on your birthday. Many many happy returns of the day. Congratulations on your success. Congratulations on your wedding. Wish you all the best.

The Art of saying No to the people:

I wont be able to come. I dont want to come. I am sorry to refuse. They wont agree to this. Its not possible. It cant be arranged. She does not like it. How can I disobey you? I wont be able to do as you wish. You dont agree with me, would you? How to Make other people believe: Dont you believe it? Its impossible. Its only a rumour. Its only a hearsay rumour. You can fully rely on them. I have full faith in him.

How to request someone?

Please wait. Please come back. Let it be. Please come here. Please reply. Please wake him up. Hope to hear from you. Will you do me a favour? Let me work Let them relax. Will you please open the door? Please give me a pencil and paper. Can you see me day after tomorrow? Could I ask you to move a little? You dont forget to write me, will you? All are requested to reach in time. Please do come day after tomorrow.

Adjectives
An adjective describes a noun, and usually come before the noun, in many languages adjectives change from singular to feminine and plural, but that doesn't happen in English, so it's very easy to use adjectives. You can understand the size and color of a noun just from the adjective before it. Examples: the white house. (white here is an adjective telling us the color of the house) The tall man (tall here is an adjective telling us the size of the man) Also adjectives can help you know what people think about a noun (something or someone). Examples: he is a nice person, she is a beautiful lady, it's a good lesson. (nice, beautiful and good are all adjectives showing us the opinion of others).

Types of Adjectives:
There are many types of adjectives, some of them express: Size (big, small, tall, short, little ...), Color (black, white, green, blue, red ...), Age (old, young ...), Origin (French, British, American ...), Time (early, late ) ...etc.

Click here for Adjectives List.

The Comparative
To compare two things we usually add (er than) to the adjective, for example the rabbit is fast, the turtle is slow, to compare them we say: the rabbit is faster than the turtle (superiority). Or the turtle is slower than the rabbit (inferiority). Superiority is when you start with the higher thing you want to compare. Inferiority when you start with the lower thing or person compared. So you must remember to add (er) to the adjective and then place (than) after the (er). My brother is taller than me. It's very easy! (adjective+er) + than. Note that some words with two syllables or more take a different form, especially if they dont have a y at the end. Example Exercise A is difficult, and exercise B is not very difficult, so we say: Exercise A is more difficult than Exercise B, (you cannot say difficulter), usually words with two syllables are longer. So whenever you feel a word is longer than one syllable and doesnt end in y, use the second form which is: more + adjective + than.

Note that there are some exceptions, that's why you need to look at the table below.

Rule If a word of one syllable is ending in 'e' then add r at the end. If a word has one syllable, with one vowel + consonant at the end, then double the consonant and add er. If a word has two syllables, and is ending in 'y', then change 'y' to 'i', and add -er at the end. The following words change entirely: Good becomes better, bad becomes worse, far becomes further If a word has two syllables or more, and is not ending in 'y' then place 'more' before the adjective.

Examples nice becomes nicer big becomes bigger tasty - tastier freedom is better than slavery difficult becomes more difficult

The Superlative
The superlative is different from the comparative because it makes a comparison between one thing or person and the rest (more than two). So its not only a comparison between (one and one) but (one and

many). Example: Emanuel is the tallest student at school. Emanuel is not only taller than one person, but the tallest in the whole school. To form the superlative we add (the ~est) and put the adjective in between them: ( tall becomes the tallest, small becomes the smallest, high becomes the highest), very easy! the + (adjective+est) Note that there are some small exceptions:

Rule If a word of one syllable is ending in 'e' then add st at the end. If a word has one syllable, with one vowel + consonant at the end, then double the consonant and add est. If a word has two syllables, and is ending in 'y', then change 'y' to 'i', and add -iest at the end. The 3 Irregular adjectives: Good becomes the best, bad becomes the worst, far becomes the furthest

Examples nice becomes the nicest big becomes the biggest tasty the tastiest freedom is the best

If a word has two syllables or more, and is not ending in 'y' then place the most before difficult becomes the most the adjective. difficult

I think Couscous is the tastiest dish in the world; Russia is the largest country, but not the most populated place in the world.

Adverbs The adverb tells you (how, why, when, where) something happened. Usually an adverb is formed from an adjective, and you simply need to add the suffix (-ly): quick becomes quickly, easy becomes easily (note that "y" becomes "i" before adding "ly"), happy becomes happily... Note that some adverbs dont need to take (-ly), like: hard, fast etc

Adverbs can come before adjective: He is actually tall. Adverbs can come before other adverbs if theyre modifying them: she pushed him really hard. Adverbs can modify nouns its really a nice house, as you have noticed there is an adjective between (really) and (a house).

-Some adverbs indicate intensity (how strong or intense something was): almost, entirely, extremely, highly, partially, practically, strongly, totally, very I entirely agree with you, we strongly recommend this website. -Some adverbs indicate duration (how long something happened): briefly, forever, shortly, permanently, temporarily She cant wait for you forever, she would like to live in the USA permanently, but is temporarily working in Japan. -These adverbs indicate a degree of frequency or how many times you do something , we will start with the most frequent, and we will end with the least frequent: Always, constantly, usually, generally, normally, regularly, often, frequently, sometimes, periodically, occasionally, now and then, once in a while, rarely, seldom, hardly ever, almost never, never. Also you can use the expressions: daily (every day), weekly (every week), monthly (every month), yearly (every year) He usually speaks English, but sometimes he speaks Spanish with his wife, and once in a while speaks German with his friend from Germany, but never speaks Russian because he cant speak it. He travels to Mexico monthly or every two months with his wife because he lives in Texas. -Some adverbs can indicate the manner in which something was done or happened, usually this kind of adverbs take (-ly): badly, quickly, beautifully, smoothly The cake was decorated beautifully and everything was going smoothly, the cook was trying to cut the cake quickly, but he dropped it on the floor, so his day ended badly. -Adverbs of place are: here, there, inside, outside, upstairs, downstairs Examples: We will stay here with you, while the rest stays there, we feel warm inside, but I think our friends outside will need some umbrellas because its raining, I will go and look for them downstairs and if I dont find them I will look upstairs. -Adverbs of probability are used to express how likely it is for something to happen: Probably, certainly, definitely, maybe, perhaps, possibly Note that probably, maybe, perhaps, possibly mean that the person is not sure if the thing will happen or will be done. - Will you come to the party? - Probably! (it means maybe I will come, and maybe not, other similar expressions are maybe, perhaps, possibly ) - Can you call me if youre not coming to the party? - Definitely! (also certainly can be used, which means that Im sure that I will call whether I decide to come to the party or not).

-Some adverbs indicate time, such as: today, yesterday, now, later, soon, already, still, finally Examples:

Finally school is opening today, yesterday was the last day of vacation, I still wish that the vacation was longer, because exams will start soon, and we will be tested later. Click here for Adverbs List.

Articles
Articles in English are easy to use than in many other languages, they are: "a (or an)" and "the", the first one is indefinite article, the second one is definite article.

Indefinite Articles:
As mentioned earlier "a (or an)" are indefinite articles, they are used when referring to something not known to the person you're talking to, or something not mentioned before in the same discussion: I have an apple and a banana. We use "an" with words starting with these vowel ( a, e, i, o, u), and "a" with the rest, note that sometimes we need to use "a" even if a word start with "u", like university for example, we used "a" because it is pronounced like "youniversity", so it's as if this word starts with "y" and not "u". Also the word "honest" should go with "an" even if it starts with "h", because we pronounce it as "onest" which starts with "o". So we say: a university, and an honest man. The indefinite article a and an can also be used with professions: he is a teacher. (his job is a teacher).

Definite Articles:
You use the definite article "the" when the thing you're talking about was already mentioned before: Once upon a time, there was a prince and a princess, the prince was 22 years old, and the princess was 19. There are some other times when you use "the", but you don't have to worry about them right now.

No Article:
Sometimes you don't need to use an article at all, especially when talking about general terms: life is beautiful (it's not common to say the life is beautiful), people are generally nice. Also no article is used when talking about countries... Note that countries containing "states, kingdom, and republic" need articles: I visited Morocco, and passed by Spain, my final destination was the United Kingdom before I came home to the United States.

Conditional
The conditional tense is used when an action depends on another action. Sometimes the action is real (like in Conditional Type I), and imaginary (like Conditional Type II).

Conditional Type I
The first conditional is used to express situations based on fact in the present or future, things that may happen in reality. If it snows tomorrow, I will not come to school, the sentence can also be reversed as: I will not come to school if it snows tomorrow. I will jump if you jump (future + if + present) or: If you jump, I will jump (if + present + future). So the structure of the conditional 1 is: (future + if + present), or (if + present + future). Note: never use will with if.

Conditional Type II
The second conditional is used to express unreal situations in the present or future. If I were you, I would apologize to her. (but I'm not you, so the condition is not real). Again you can reverse the sentence: I would apologize to her if I were you. The structure of the conditional 2 is: (if + past + would + present) or (would+ present + if + past).

Conditional Type III

The 3rd conditional is used to express conditions in the past that didn't happen, usually the expressions (could have, should have, would have) are used especially when there is a regret or criticism of a past action. For example someone who is blaming his brother for not helping him on his homework two days ago, so he says: If you had helped me on my homework, I wouldn't have failed the exam. (So this means that the real situation now is the opposite, his brother didnt help him on his homework, and also this mean s that he failed the exam). Another example: If you hadnt listened to me, you would have lost all the money. (But it seems that he listened to him, and that he didnt lose the money) The structure of the conditional 3 is (if + past perfect + would + present perfect) or (would + present perfect + if + past perfect).

Nouns
A noun is a word talking about a person, a thing or an abstract idea. A noun can also answer the question of "who or what". Who lives in the house? - David, (David = Noun), also house is a Noun. What do you have in your hand? - A book (Book = Noun), also hand is a Noun. These also are nouns, example: cat, dog, milk, brother, county, pen.

There are different types of nouns: Abstract nouns: freedom, friendship, idea ... (you can't see them so they're called abstract). Common nouns: man, woman, mouse, school, paper... (Talking about people, places, and things) Gerunds: you can change a verb to become a noun when you add ing to the end of the verb, speak is a verb, speak + ing = speaking (noun). I like to write (verb), I like writing (noun). Examples: go => going, live => living, drive => driving, (for more information click here English Gerund) Nouns are 2 types, countable, and uncountable, Countable is used for things that you can count (one banana, a spoon, an orange), you can say one banana, two bananas, three bananas, so that means that banana is a countable noun. Uncountable is when you cannot count the noun, milk for example is uncountable, because it is a liquid. You cannot say one milk, two milks ... so that means milk is uncountable, that means you can only say: milk, some milk, a lot of milk ...etc. If you want to use countable expressions to uncountable words then put a countable noun before it, for example you can say: I want 2 cups of milk (cups are countable, you can use it before milk), you cannot say "two milks".

Plural Nouns
A singular noun means a noun referring to one person, one thing or one place , if you want to refer to more than one person, thing or place, you need to use the plural. If you have (one pen + one pen), then you cannot say I have 2 pen, you have to use the plural, and say I have 2 pens, you see that we added s to the end of pen. Other examples: House => houses, one computer => two computers, a friend => some friends, my sister => my sisters. English is very easy when you want to use the plural, most of the time you just need to add s at the end.

But you need to know that if the end of a word in singular is (-ch, -x, -s, -sh, z) you will have to add es not only s, for example: one church = two churches, fox => foxes, kiss => kisses There are some other rules you need to know, but in general cases you only need to add one s at the end of the nouns. Remember you only can make the plural of nouns, unlike other languages such as Spanish, French or Arabic, English adjectives or adverbs dont have the plural form. (only nouns), for example you cannot say: I have two reds cars. The correct way is: I have two red cars. (red doesnt add s at the end).

I hope the content of this page was useful to you, and that you learned some rules from the English Grammar lesson especially about Adjectives, Adverbs, Articles, Nouns, Conditional, Comparative, Superlative, and the Plural. Try to practice them to be able to use them in your daily conversation. Make sure to check our Learn English page, which contains several lessons that might help you in your learning process. To add this page to your favorite pages simply press (Ctrl+D) on your keyboard for Internet Explorer and Firefox. You can also link to us here: Link to Us.

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