Awesome 3 May grammar and vocabulary review Saint Louis School English Department Carlos Schwerter Garc í a

Indefinite pronouns Indefinite pronouns are used to refer to people, places, or things that are unknown or not stated. Indefinite pronouns use the singular form of verbs (like he, she, or it). Indefinite pronouns usually begin with: any (anyone, anybody) every (everyone, everybody) some (someone, somebody) no (no one, nobody)

Past Perfect Tense Past perfect tense is most often used for the following: - For actions that happened before a past event - In reported speech - In if (conditional) sentences For actions that happened before a past event When we want to talk about an action that happened before a past event, we often use the past perfect. Look at these examples: When I got home yesterday, my father had already cooked dinner. I didn't want to go to the movies with my friends because I had seen the film already. My friend offered me an apple in class yesterday, but I wasn't hungry because I had just eaten lunch. I arrived very late at the party. All my friends had already gone home. As soon as she had done her homework, she went to bed.

Narrative tenses What are narrative tenses? Narrative tenses are the tenses that we use to talk about past events and to tell stories. The most common of these is the past simple. Three other tenses, past continuous, the past perfect simple and the past perfect continuous can help us to say what we want more efficiently. However, it should be remembered that almost any story can be told using the past simple. It is often useful to look at these tenses together within the context of the function narrating, i.e. relating past events. Written example of narrative tenses in use Bond opened the door very slowly, looked carefully around the room and walked in. The window was open and the curtains were blowing in the wind. Clearly someone had left in a hurry. Past simple opened, looked, walked, was Past continuous were blowing Past perfect had left