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Secara umum, report text adalah salah satu jenis teks yang masuk kategori  "factual texts." Teks jenis ini sering dikatakan sebagai "saudara kembar"descriptive text sehingga wajar banyak siswa "bingung" cara membedakan kedua...

Find the facts of these sentences: 1. If Mira had found the cellphone, she would not have bought the new one     Fact:..................................................................................................................... 2. R...

src Conditionals: Summary Here is a chart to help you to visualize the basic English conditionals. Do not take the 50% and 10% figures too literally. They are just to help you. probabilityconditionalexampletime 100% zero conditionalIf you h...

Zero Conditional: certainty We use the so-called zero conditional when the result of the condition is always true, like a scientific fact. Take some ice. Put it in a saucepan. Heat the saucepan. What happens? The ice melts (it becomes wat...

Third Conditional: no possibility The first conditional and second conditionals talk about the future. With the third conditional we talk about the past. We talk about a condition in the past that did not happen. That is why...

Second Conditional: unreal possibility or dream The second conditional is like the first conditional. We are still thinking about the future. We are thinking about a particular condition in the future, and the result of this condition. But...

First Conditional: real possibility We are talking about the future. We are thinking about a particular condition or situation in the future, and the result of this condition. There is a real possibility that this condition will happen. For example,...

The simple past expresses an action in the past taking place once, never, several times. It can also be used for actions taking place one after another or in the middle of another action. Form of Simple Past  PositiveNegativeQuestion no differ...

The present progressive puts emphasis on the course or duration of an action. The present progressive is used for actions going on in the moment of speaking and for actions taking place only for a short period of time. It is also used to express d...

Simple present is also called present simple. The simple present expresses an action in the present taking place once, never or several times. It is also used for actions that take place one after another and for actions that are set by a timetabl...

ExpressionExample both … and …I like both cats and dogs. soJane likes cats. So do I. not … eitherJane doesn't like cats. I don't like cats either. either … or …Jane either has a cat or a dog. neither/norJane doesn't like cats. Neither do I.

Exercise Exercise on Telling the Time Explanation There are two common ways of telling the time. Formal but easier way Say the hours first and then the minutes. Example: 7:45 - seven forty-five For minutes 01 through 09, you can pronounce the...

Future II progressive puts emphasis on the course / duration of an action taking place before a certain time in the future. It can also be used to express an assumption regarding a future action. Future II progressive is not used very often as it ca...

Future II Simple expresses an action that will be finished at a certain time in the future. Form A: He will have talked. N: He will not have talked. Q: Will he have talked? Use action that will be finished at a certain time in the future Signa...

The past perfect progressive puts emphasis on the course or duration of an action taking place before a certain time in the past. Form A: He had been talking. N: He had not been talking. Q: Had he been talking? Use action taking place before a c...

The past perfect simple expresses an action taking place before a certain time in the past. Form of Past Perfect Simple  PositiveNegativeQuestion no differencesI had spoken.I had not spoken.Had I spoken? For irregular verbs, use the past par...

Going to future expresses a conclusion regarding the immediate future or an action in the near future that has already been planned or prepared. Form of going to Future  positivenegativequestion II am going to speak.I am not goi...

Future I progressive puts emphasis on the course of an action taking place in the future. Form A: He will be talking. N: He will not be talking. Q: Will he be talking? Use action that is going on at a certain time in the future action that is su...

Form of will Future  positivenegativequestion no differencesI will speak.I will not speak.Will I speak? Use of will Future a spontaneous decision example: Wait, I will help you. an opinion, hope, uncertainty or assumptio...

The present perfect progressive expresses an action that recently stopped or is still going on. It puts emphasis on the duration or course of the action. Form of Present Perfect Progressive PositiveNegativeQuestion I / you / we / theyI have been s...