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I found this unit particularly challenging, as there are so many variances and variables which makes each grammar point so complex. The modal verbs can be used to express a number of different ideas and have many usages, depending on their degree of certainty of a situation: Ability, Advice, Deduction, Obligation, Offer, Permission, Possibility, Prediction, Prohibition, Promise and Request. It is interesting, thought, that the modal verbs don?t change in form. Two voices are used: Active and Passive voice. Both sentences have the same meaning but the focus changes. In the passive voice, the positioning changes. The object of an active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb. The passive voice is the most commonly used. Interestingly, the tense of the sentence always remains the same. The tense of the passive voice is identified by the auxiliary verb ?be? and the active voice tense is shown by the main verb. The passive voice doesn?t identify the person who performs the action, it is not important. A relative clause is a dependant clause that modifies a nouns, it provides/describes further information and can also be referred to as an adjective clause. There are two types of relative clauses: Defining and Non-Defining. Information in the defining clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence so we have a clear understanding of the person or thing we are talking about, whereas the information in a non-defining clause is not essential to the meaning. Commas are critical in a non-defining clause. Phrasal verbs consist of a verb plus one or two particles. There are three types: Type 1 ? Intransitive, these verbs can?t be followed by a direct object; Type 2 ? Transitive Separable, where the object pronoun can only come between the verb and the particle; and Type 3 ? Transitive Inseparate ? the object phrase or pronoun come after the particle. These are best learnt as vocabulary items, given the difficulty for students to understand. They are best used in natural conversation for familiarity and natural adoption.
