15 Golden Rules of Grammar

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Words joined to a Singular Subject by with, together with, in addition to, or,as well as etc. are parenthetical, and therefore do not affect the number of the Verb.

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When the Subject of the Verb is Relative Pronoun care should be taken to see that the Verb agrees in Number and Person with the Antecedent of therelative.

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Ask, advise, allow, command, force, forbid, invite, encourage, compel, beg, order•, imagine, instruct, permit, persuade, tell, require, remind, teach,etc. are followed by Object + To +V2

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Two auxiliaries can be used with one principal Verb, only when the form ofthe principal Verb is appropriate to both the auxiliaries.

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 When there is only one auxiliary to two principal Verbs it should becorrectly associated with the both.

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A Past Tense in the main clause should be followed by a Past Tense inthe subordinate clause.

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A Past Tense in main clause may be followed by a Present Tense in the subordinate clause when the subordinate clause expresses a universaltruth.

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When the subordinate clause comes after 'lest', the auxiliary Verb 'should'must be used, whatever be the Tense of the Verb in the main clause.

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Gerund if preceded by a Pronoun, that Pronoun must bein Possessive case.

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The Present Perfect Continuous Tense is used for an action that began inthe past time and is still. going at the time of speaking~ It is used with, Adverbials of time introduced by 'since', 'for' and 'how long.

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A Verb when preceded by a Preposition must be the Gerund.

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