According to him,
According to the the accounting standard,
pursuant to
In our opinion,
I like you as well.
I like the sweet too.

Discourse
Talking about
With reference to
Referring to

Regarding
As regards
As far as ... is concerned,
As for
Insofar as
Inasmuch as
Insomuch that

Firstly, secondly, thirdly, finally
In the first place
First of all
to begin with
for one thing, ... for another thing
another thing is
moreover
further
furthermore
in addition
additionally
similarly
as well as that
on top of that
besides

all the same
yet
and yet
still
on the other hand
however
nevertheless
in spite of
despite of
despite that
despite the fact that
notwithstanding

hence
thus
therefore
consequently
as a result
so
on the grounds of
by virtue of
in view of

for instance
for example
such as
including
in particular
apart from
except(ing)
with the exception of
save as disclosed above
etc
and so on
and so forth

on the whole
in general
as a rule
in most cases
in many cases
broadly speaking
to some extent
to certain extent
mostly

I mean
that is to say
in other words

at any rate
at any one time
anyway
anyhow

by the way
incidentally
I say

Frankly
Honestly
I think
I feel
I suppose
I mean
so to speak
sort of
more or less
really

After all
At last

no doubt
I'm afraid

actually
well, actually
in fact
as a matter of fact
to tell the truth
in fact

perfect
fantastic
excellent
best of the best
best
wonderful
unbelievable
amazing
incredible
professional
great
well done
outstanding
masterpiece
very good
pretty good
awfully good
rather good (more than usual)
above average
quite good
good
fairly good
amateur
fair
so so
poor
miserable
bad
worst

perfect
great
superb
distinguished
outstanding
gorgeous
splendid
strong
solid
convincing
rusty
lacklustre
embarassing

8 parts of speech
noun
pronoun-case include nominative, objective and possesssive
adjective
adverb
preposition
conjunction
interjection
verb-to infinitive, gerund, tense

Tense
4 main simple tenses
-Present
-Past
-Future
-Conditional

Simple
Perfect
Progressive/continuous

simple
compound=simple+perfect
simple progressive
compound progressive=simple+perfect+progressive

Total 16 Tenses

Time and attitude

Fuctions of verbs

Transitive and intransitive
Voice-active and passive

Tense

Mood
Indicative-He speaks
Infinitive-To see now is a foolish mistake.
Subjunctive-If I were you, I would have travelled around the world.
Present indicative plural even if the subject is singular
Past progressive indicative plural even if the subject is singular
Imperative-Stop smoking.

Form
Affirmative
Negative
Interrogative

Person
first person
second person
third person

Number
singular
plural

Subject and objects

Copulative or actions

Auxiliary or main

Verbals
Particple=adjective
Gerund=noun
Infinitive=noun, adjective, adverb

An infinitive has tense and voice
Present active infinitive: To see
Present passive infinitive: To be seen
Perfect active infinitive: To have seen
Perfect passive infinitive: To have been seen

Splitting an infinitve

Participle also has tense and voice
Present participle: Seeing
Perfect active participle: Having seen
Perfect passive participle: Having been seen

Example:-
Seeing you, she turned pale.
Going home, he met her classmate.
I saw you coming down the street.
Spending at this rate, she will soon be broke.

Avoid Dangling participle or modifier
Wrong match of antecedent

Heart
take heart
in my heart
heartbeat
broken heart
heart breaking
heart attack
heart disease
open heart
smiling heart

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