English Grammar Program a.y. 2010-2011

• International and European Studies (SPRISE)
• Science of Public and Private Administration (SAPP)

1. IPA (International Phonetical Alphabet)
2. What is a paradigm: regular verbs/irregular verbs
3. Tenses of verbs:
   • The Present Simple in English vs the Present Simple in Italian
   • Infinitive (bare and full)
   • The present tenses
     • Present Simple
     • Present Continuous
     • Present Perfect
     • Present Perfect Continuous
   • The past tenses
     • Past Simple
     • Past continuous
   • Future
     • Will
     • going to
   • Conditional
   • The imperative mood - positive and negative
4. Future in the past
   • How long have you been studying
   • I have been studying for two hours
   • I haven’t studied for two years
   • How long since you studied
   • It’s two years since I studied
5. since/for
6. Phrasal verbs: extending or changing the meaning of a verb
7. Inversions (No sooner, not only, seldom, rarely, etc.)
8. It’s the first time
9. We are used to +ing
10. The passive voice
11. Voice and aspect combination
12. The causative
13. “If” clauses
14. Unless
15. Neither do I; So do I
16. I wish / If only
17. Question tags
18. Short answers
19. I can’t wait / I’m looking forward to + ing
20. Modals
21. Semi-modals
22. must vs. have to
23. be likely to
24. The article ‘the’
25. The article ‘the’ with the two different pronunciations
26. to do vs. to make
27. the more … the more
28. remind vs. remember
29. remember to do vs. remember doing
30. Thank you for + ing
31. Concessive clauses: despite, in spite of, although, even though, though
32. It’s worth it / It’s not worth it / It’s worth + ing
33. to borrow vs. to lend
34. as long as/provided that/providing that
35. to say to s.o. vs. to tell s.o.
36. still, yet
37. ‘Yet’ at the beginning of the sentence
38. do you mind, would you mind
39. Objective clause
40. Mispronounced words
41. The five words in English where the “h” is silent
42. Lexical bundles and idioms in English
43. Political phrases in English
44. Curiosity shop
    • Modals: can, could, may, might, must, should, will, would, shall.
    • Semi-modals (also called periphrastic modals or quasi-modals: (had) better, have to, (have) got to, ought to, be supposed to, be going to, used to.
    • a friend of mine, of yours, of his, etc…
    • I hope so/I think so/I don’t think so
    • false friends
    • nationality adjectives  (all capital letters)
    • to take, to bring, to carry, to fetch / to come and to go
    • If I were you/If I were in your shoes
    • at the beginning / in the beginning
    • at the end / in the end
    • on time / in time
    • either / or
    • neither / nor
    • like/unlike
    • whether / if
    • like/as
    • hard/hardly
    • few/a few, little/a little