🇬🇧 Tawjihi English Master Keycards — Semester 1

Your ultimate interactive grammar guide: Present & Past Tenses, Stative Verbs, Gerund vs Infinitive, Prepositional Phrases, and Ministerial Traps.

⏰ 1. Present Simple vs Present Continuous
  • Present Simple: Facts, habits, routines. Time markers: always, usually, often, every day.
  • Present Continuous: Actions happening now, temporary situations, changing trends. Time markers: now, at the moment, currently, this week.
  • Trap: Stative verbs (like, believe, know) always take Present Simple even with 'now'!
⏳ 2. Present Perfect Simple vs Continuous
  • Present Perfect Simple (have/has + V3): Focus on completed result, quantity (how many/how much). Keywords: already, yet, ever, never, just.
  • Present Perfect Continuous (have/has + been + V-ing): Focus on duration, ongoing activity, recent evidence. Keywords: all morning, for, since, how long.
  • Ministerial Trap: If the question mentions numbers/times: He has written 3 letters this morning (NOT has been writing).
🎯 3. Gerund (-ing) vs Infinitive (to + inf)
  • Followed by -ing: enjoy, avoid, mind, consider, look forward to, can't help, spend time.
  • Followed by to+inf: decide, hope, promise, agree, refuse, manage, afford.
  • Verbs with Meaning Change:
    • remember to do (don't forget) vs remember doing (memory of past).
    • stop to do (pause to do something) vs stop doing (quit the action entirely).
    • regret to tell (sorry to announce) vs regret doing (wish I hadn't done it).
🔤 4. Key Prepositional Phrases & Collocations
  • Phrases with ON: on purpose, on demand, on business, on duty, on arrival.
  • Phrases with IN: in advance, in danger, in debt, in common, in charge of.
  • Unit 1 Idioms: stuck in a rut (doing the same boring routine), step out of your comfort zone.
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