1. Prepositional verbs and phrasal verbs
• Put sth off
• Turn sth down ( off, down: adverb
particle)
• phrasal verbs
• She looks after her children
• He always laughs at me
• prepositional verbs
2. Prepositional verbs and phrasal verbs
• Not to be separated
• -call on: thăm
• -take after: giống
• -get over: hết bệnh
• -get along with
• -run into: tình cờ gặp
• -run out of: hết
•-call up
•-call Mary up
•-look it up not look up
it
•-put it on put on it
-wake him up not wake
up him
•Why??
• exception: objects as
pronounces: me, him,
her..
3. Linking verb
• Be =seem= look= ??
• appear
• Get = become =turn =?? = ??
• go, grow
• Remain = ??
• Stay
• Sound, taste, smell
• The milk goes sour/ sourly??
4. Verbs of perception
• See, hear, watch, notice,
feel, observe, perceive,
smell, hart at ( listen to):
• Ex: I heard her sing/ singing
last night
5. Transitive verbs and intransitive verbs
• I am going to lie down for a while
• The door opened
• I open the door
• Rise and raise ??
• Remain
6. Semi-modals
• Need, dare and used
• He need not wait any thing wrong??
• no, as an auxiliary verb ( the same for
“dare”)
• I used to love fiction negative form?
• didn’t use to ( info), usedn’t to, used not to
• Used he to ?? ( only for past tense ), did he
use to ( AmE)
7. Cases of Special meaning
• Ước j…: ___ all your dream come true
• may
• Dù nó có nghèo,…; he ___ be poor but he is
honest
• may ( adverb clause of concession)
• Dù cố gắng, hắn vẫn…: try as he ___, he could
not persuade his friend to go
• might
8. Cases of Special meaning
•A retired teacher
•A fallen angel ( giáng trần)
•A faded rose/ withered rose ( = shriveled ~)
•Escaped prisoner
•Passive absolute phrase: All things considered,
I think we should award the job to Tom
•Granted that he is smart, he at least works hard
9. Cases of Special meaning
•Verbs with 2 forms of PP
•Bind bound/ bounden: It is your bounden duty
to learn
•He was drunk/ A drunken man
•A sunken ship/ the ship was sunk
•The stricken man was dead/ the boy was struck by
his friend
•The shrunken coat/ the coat has shrunk
•On bended knees/ I bent my pen nib
•Iam much beholden to you (cảm ơn)- I have never
beheld such a thing ( mục kích)
10. Idiom/ expression + gerund
• Be worth, be busy, be near ( gần, suýt), can
not help, it is not worth while, feel like (
muốn, thích), cant bear + gerund/ full
infinitive
• There is ( có), there is no, there is much ( có
nhiều), there is little, it is no use, it is no good
• There was talking in the next room
• There was much debating on the subject.
11. SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD ( Gỉa định)
•1) God saves the Queen/ Heaven helps us/ God
bless you/ Long live VN
•2)May ( ước j) my mother lives a long life
•3)She urges that he ( should) write and accept
the position ( the same for propose, suggest,
order, command, demand, intend, request,
move ( chủ trương)
•It is good, better, best, important, essential,
necessary, his wish, imperative
12. IF CLAUSE ( SPECIAL)
• If I said that, I apologize
• If I said that, I was mistaken
• If I made a mistake, I will remedy it
• If you were having dinner when I
came, why didn’t you let me know
• If the train should be late, what will
you do? ( as a rare case )
13. IF CLAUSE ( SPECIAL)
• If you will lend me 10 USD, I will be very
grateful to you ( to show politeness,
insistence, willingness)
• A person who stopped learning would be soon
stupid
• If a person…learning, he would…
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• If a child is spared punishment, he will be
spoit
14. IF CLAUSE ( SPECIAL)
• Natural laws + automatic results
• If you heat ice, it turns to water
• Ordinary truth
• If I make a mistake, I apologize
• Imperative form in main clause
• If you see him, tell him to write to me
• Polite request
• If you will/ would kindly wait a moment, I
shall call my mother
15. IF CLAUSE ( SPECIAL)
• WOULD LIKE & WOULD CARE to replace WISH,
WANT
• If you WOULD LIKE/ CARE to come, I get a ticket
for you
• CAUSE & EFFECT, TENSES PARALLEL
• You were a fool if you went out without a hat
• IMPROBABILITY
• If you were to come tomorrow, I might have time
to see you
• ( If..were to + V,..should, would, could, might +
bare V)
16. IF ONLY ƯỚC GÌ
• If only he comes
• If only he comes early, we will be
able to warn him
• If only it stopped raining
• If only this war would cease ( as
a rare case, improbability)
17. AS IF/ AS THOUGH: NHƯ THỂ LÀ,
DƯỜNG NHƯ LÀ
•Yesterday, she sang with gestures as if
she was/ had been a professional
singer
• had been
•He behaves as if he….. be a president
tomorrow
•Mary orders me as if she …my boss
18. IF
• SUPPOSE
• SUPPOSING ( THAT)
• ON CONDITION THAT
• PROVIDED (THAT )
• SO LONG AS
• WHEN
• IN CASE: she can be charming when (if) she
wants to
19. NEGATIVE FORM OF IF
•UNLESS: nếu ko, trừ phi = IF..NOT
•BUT FOR: nếu ko tại, nếu ko vì
•Ex: BUT FOR the storm, we should have
arrived earlier
• If it had not been for the storm, ….
•BUT FOR = IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR, IF IT
WERE NOT FOR
20. INVERSION IN “IF CLAUSE”
•If John was here now, he
would explain the whole
matter
• Were John here now,…
•I will go, should it be
necessary
