Capital Letters À Personal Pronoun I

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Spelling: capital letters  personal pronoun I beginning of a sentence/speech for many abbreviations & acronyms for days, month, week, year, holidays countries, languages, nationalities, religion names (trade-marks, names of companies, other organisations, places, monuments, vehicles (Titanic) titles (War and Peace)

-y or -ies  if a vowel before a y +s ex: playplays  If a consonant = y -ies ex: countrycountries

ou  soup, group u  butcher  soul  bus  young  unit quiet & quit  quiet = leise  quit = aufgeben, beenden

Dates  1. Januar 2016 -> first of January, 2016 2. Januar -> second of January, 2016 3,4,… + th

Sure  use to express certainty and shows how confident one is about something.

Word order: positive sentence  subject + verb + indirect object + direct object + place +time I will tell you the story at school tomorrow. after go  after verbs which express a movement, you have to put the place immediately after the verb. Ich gehe mit meiner Familie nach Hause. I go home with my family negative sentence  same word order, but you put the not in front of the main verb I will not tell you the story at school tomorrow.

Inversions  after these words: seldom, rarely, never, little, hardly, scarcely, no sooner, only and not only Ex: Seldom have I seen such a beautiful view

Possessives  we use possessive determiners before a noun. we use possessive pronouns in place of a noun. Ex: Is that your phone? -> Yes, it’s mine.

On my own, by myself ore of my own?

You always have to use the possessive pronoun. ex. On the own.

Will  to say what we believe will happen in the future and to make promises and offers had better  to give advice would rather  when there is a preference want  to talk about wishes and needs want to  when there comes an infinitive after the verb be willing to  when you are disposed to do something uncountable words  there are words which only exist in singular. ex. Information, money, vocabulary, advice, education, science, electricity, fruit