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English Language
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Free English Language study notes for Junior Secondary students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.
Vocabulary - S1 Topics
Myself and My Family
School Life
Hobbies and Free Time
The Environment
Celebrations and Festivals
Vocabulary - S2 Topics
My Neighborhood and Places Around Me
Sports and Health
Technology and Media
Cultural Festivals
Future Plans and Careers
Vocabulary - S3 Topics
Social Issues (e.g., Pollution, Poverty)
Global Challenges
Personal Experiences and Reflections
Media and Communication
Dream Jobs and Aspirations
Nouns and noun clauses
Countable and uncountable nouns
Compound nouns
Noun clauses
Pronouns
Subject and object pronouns
Possessive pronouns
Reflexive pronouns
Each other and one another
Determiners
Articles
Possessive adjectives and possessive -s
Demonstrative adjectives and demonstrative pronouns
Amounts
Expressing indefinite amounts
Expressing a certain amount of something
Expressing definite amounts
Talking about an adequate amount
Either, either … or, neither, neither … nor
Containers and quantities
Comparing amounts
Summary of quantifiers
Agreement
Subject-verb agreement
Singular verbs
Plural verbs
Either singular or plural verbs
Collective nouns
Other special cases
The present
Simple present
Present continuous
Present perfect
Present perfect continuous
The past
Simple past
Past continuous
Past perfect
Past perfect continuous
Past perfect continuous versus past perfect
The future
Will and shall
Be going to
Present tenses
Will/shall, be going to and present tenses
Future continuous
Future perfect
Future perfect continuous
Adjectives
Participial adjectives
The position of adjectives
Connecting multiple adjectives
The order of adjectives before nouns
Adjective patterns
Adverbs
Adverbs of manner
Adverbs of time
Adverbs of frequency
Adverbs of place and direction
Adverbs of degree
Sentence adverbs
Making comparison
Comparing two people/things: expressions
Comparing two people/things: comparatives
Comparing more than two people/things: superlatives
Comparative and superlative forms
Comparative expressions that show change
Modal verbs
Talking about ability
Talking about necessity and obligation
Talking about prohibition
Talking about possibility and probability
Making requests and asking for permission
Giving advice and making suggestions
Making offers and invitations
The passive voice
Active voice versus passive voice
Modal verbs
Verbs not used in the passive voice
Using the passive voice with that-clauses
Infinitives and gerunds
Infinitives
To-infinitives
Bare infinitives
Gerunds
Verbs used with either gerunds or to-infinitives
Reported speech
Direct and reported speech
Changing direct speech into reported speech
Reporting statements
Reporting questions and answers
Reporting requests, commands and advice
Reporting exclamations
Mixed sentence types
Question tags
Forming question tag
Tenses in question tags
Pronouns in question tags
Imperatives, requests and suggestions
Intonation
Conditionals
The zero conditional
The first conditional
The second conditional
The third conditional
Other conditional expressions
Linking words
Linking words/phrases
Adding information and providing examples
Talking about time
Talking about contrast
Talking about reasons and results
Talking about purposes
Relative clauses
Defining relative clauses
Non-defining relative clauses
Non-defining relative clauses
Relative clauses without relative pronouns
Prepositions before relative pronouns
Participles
Forming participles
Using participles as adjectives
Using participle phrases to express time relations
Using participle phrases to give reasons
Using participles in relative clauses
Phrasal verbs
Literal and idiomatic phrasal verbs
Transitive and intransitive phrasal verbs
Separable and inseparable phrasal verbs
Inversion
Inversion in questions
Inversion after so, neither and nor
Inversion after as, than and so
Inversion in exclamations
Inversion with may
Inversion after negative adverbs and adverbial expressions
Inversion after only and not only
Inversion after adverbial phrases of place or direction
Inversion after direct speech
Inverted conditional sentences
The subjunctive
The present subjunctive
The present subjunctive in that-clauses
The present subjunctive in exclamations and fixed expressions
Alternatives to the present subjunctive
The past subjunctive
The past subjunctive after wish + subject
The past subjunctive after fixed expressions
The past subjunctive in reported speech
Prepositions
Prepositions of time
Prepositions of place and movement
Prepositional phrases and collocations (verb / adjective + preposition)
Prepositions at the end of questions and clauses
Sentence types and structures
Simple, compound and complex sentences
Statements, questions, commands and exclamations
Subject, verb and object: word order
Sentence fragments and run-on sentences
Punctuation: commas, apostrophes and quotation marks
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