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Unit 9 • Lesson B: Accidents happen.
Vocabulary
Parts of the body
ankle (n)
arm (n)
back (n)
chest (n)
elbow (n)
eye (n)
face (n)
finger (n)
foot (n)
hand (n)
head (n)
hip (n)
knee (n)
leg (n)
neck (n)
nose (n)
shoulder (n)
thumb (n)
toe (n)
wrist (n)
Injuries and accidents
break your arm (v)
get a black eye (v)
sprain your ankle (v)
cut your finger (v)
hurt your back (v)
hurt yourself (v)
have a car accident (v)
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Reflexive pronouns
myself (pron)
yourself (pron)
herself (pron)
himself (pron)
ourselves (pron)
yourselves (pron)
themselves (pron)
by (myself) (prep)
Grammar
Past continuous questions
You can use past continuous questions to ask about background events or events in
progress in the past. The past continuous often describes a long action.
Use simple past questions to ask about completed events and actions. The simple past often
describes a short action:
Were you skiing with a friend?
What were you doing when you fell?
Did you hurt yourself?
What did you do?
Yes-No questions
For past continuous Yes-No questions, use past of be (Was / Were) + subject + verb +
-ing . . . ?:
Were you skiing with a friend?
For affirmative responses, use Yes, + subject + was / were:
Yes, I was.
For negative responses, use No, + subject + wasn't / weren't:
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No, they weren't.
Information questions
For information questions, use question word + was / were + subject + verb + ing . . . ?:
A What were you doing?
B I was talking on my cell phone.
Reflexive pronouns
There is a reflexive pronoun for every subject pronoun:
Pronouns Reflexive pronouns
I myself
you yourself
he himself
she herself
it itself
we ourselves
they themselves
Use a reflexive pronoun when the subject and the object of a verb are the same person.
I hurt myself. (myself is the same person as "I")
They hurt themselves. (themselves is the same person as "they")
You can use by + reflexive pronouns to mean "alone" and not with other people:
A Were you skiing by yourself?
B Yes, I was skiing by myself.
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