21st Century Grammar Handbook



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21st century grammar
21st century grammar, transformation, transformation, - - - .pdf;filename*= UTF-8''অনুবাদ চর্চা (প্রথম আলো পত্রিকা থেকে-২৯-০৩-২০২০)-1, 21st century grammar
participle of “be”) with the present participle (“ing” form the dog has been snoring for far too long.”
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Combining will have been with the present participle (“ing” form, the future perfect progressive suggests actions or conditions that will end at or by a de nite moment in the future The dog will have been snoring for ten years in August.”
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The past perfect progressive tense joins had been with the present participle (“ing”
form) to portray things that continue in the past and that start before some other speci c time, event, or situation The dog had been snoring for ten years before it was cured of it.”
Than, then. Than is a conjunction that links words or phrases being compared:
“Smith is taller than Brown is See comparison. Do not confuse than with “then,”
an adverb that modi es verbs and suggests actions or conditions following one after the other The nurse weighed the patient, then measured her height See modifier.
That, which. That normally is the relative pronoun introducing a restrictive (or independent) clause, while which does the same for nonrestrictive (dependent)
clauses. Restrictive clauses add considerable information to a sentence that is essential for its meaning and are not set o by commas. Nonrestrictive clauses add ancillary or less than essential ideas to a sentence and show this supplementary status by being surrounded by commas.
Their, there, they’re. These three homonyms (words that soundalike but are spelled di erently) are frequently confused and misused. They are quite di erent
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