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Englisch-Nachhilfe für die Klassen 5 bis 9

English Grammar

The Tenses – Active Voice
- Present Tense Simple – Präsens / Gegenwart
- Present Tense Progressive – Präsens / Gegenwart Verlaufsform
- Past Tense Simple – Präteritum / Vergangenheit
- Past Tense Progressive – Präteritum / Vergangenheit Verlaufsform
- Present Perfect Simple – Perfekt / vollendete Gegenwart
- Present Perfect Progressive – Perfekt / vollendete Gegenwart Verlaufsform
- Past Perfect Simple – Plusquamperfekt / vollendete Vergangenheit
- Past Perfect Progressive – Plusquamperfekt / vollendete Vergangenheit Verlaufsform
- Future I (Will-Future) Simple – Futur I / Zukunft I Verlaufsform
- Future I (Will-Future) Progressive – Futur I / Zukunft I Verlaufsform
- Future II Simple – Futur II / Zukunft II
- Future II Progressive – Futur II / Zukunft II Verlaufsform
- Conditional I Simple – Konditional I
- Conditional I Progressive – Konditional I Verlaufsform
- Conditional II Simple – Konditional II
- Conditional II Progressive – Konditional II Verlaufsform
The Tenses – Passive Voice
- The Tenses – Passive Voices
- Transforming Active into Passive
- The Passive Infinitive – Present Tense Form
- The Passive Infinitive - Present Perfect Form
Reported Speech
- Backshift and No Backshift
- Exceptions to the Backshift
- Modal Auxiliaries and the Backshift
- Sentence Variety and Reported Speech
Auxiliary Verbs
- Primary and Modal Auxiliaries
- Usage of Do in Negations
- Question Tags and Short Answers
Infinitive and Gerund
- Infinitive
- Gerund
- Typical Mistakes
The Participle
- Present Participle
- Past Participle
- Usage of Participles
Conditional Clauses – If-Clauses
- Type I: Possible Condition and its Probable Result
- Type II: Hypothetical Condition and its Probable Result
- Type III: Condition Contrary to Reality (Improbable Conditions)
- Mixed Conditionals
The Noun
- Common Noun, Proper Noun and Abstract Noun
- Ways of Forming the Feminine of Nouns
- Singular and Plural
- Nominative Case
- Objective (Accusative) Case
- Possessive (Genitive) Case
- Vocative Case
- Dative Case
- Nouns in Apposition
The Sentence
- Kinds of Sentences: Declarative (Assertive), Imperative and Exclamatory
- Subject and Predicate
- Phrase and Clause
- Parts of Speech
The Article
- The Definite and the Indefinite Article
- Use of the Definite and Indefinite Article
- Omission of the Article
- Repetition of the Article
The Adjective
- Kinds of Adjective
- Adjectives of Quality
- Adjectives of Quantity
- Adjectives of Number
- Definite and Indefinite Numeral Adjectives
- Distributive Numeral Adjectives
- Demonstrative Adjectives
- Interrogative Adjectives
- Emphasizing and Exclamatory Adjectives
- Formations of Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives
- Degrees of Comparison:
  - Positive Degree, Comparative Degree and Superlative Degree
- Formation of Comparative and Superlative
- Irregular Comparison
- Interchange of the Degrees of Comparison
- Position of the Adjectives
- The Correct Use of Some Adjectives
The Adverb
- Kinds of Adverbs
- Adverbs of Time
- Adverbs of Frequency
- Adverbs of Place
- Adverbs of Manner
- Adverbs of Degree or Quantity
- Adverbs of Affirmation and Negation
- Adverbs of Reason
- Interrogative Adverbs
- Adverbial Accusative
- Comparison of Adverbs
- Formation of Adverbs
- Position of Adverbs
- Adverbs or Adjectives
Pronouns
- Personal Pronouns: First Person, Second Person and Third Person
- Forms of Personal Pronoun: Nominative, Possessive and Accusative
- Pronominal Adjectives
- Impersonal Pronoun
- Reflexive Pronoun
- Emphatic Pronouns
- Demonstrative, Indefinite and Distributive Pronouns
- Relative Pronouns
- Omission of the Relative Pronoun
- Omission of the Antecedent
- Agreement of the Relative Pronoun and its Antecedent
- Position of the Relative Pronoun
- Compound Relative Pronouns
- Interrogative Pronouns
The Preposition
- Kinds of Preposition
- Compound Prepositions
- Phrase Prepositions
- Relations Expressed by Prepositions
- Special Prepositions
- Words Followed by Prepositions
- Classes of Conjunctions: Co-ordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions
- Co-ordinating Conjunctions:
  - Cumulative or Copulative Conjunctions
  - Adversative Conjunctions
  - Disjunctive or Alternative Conjunctions
  - Illative Conjunctions
- Subordinating Conjunctions (classified according to their meaning):
  - Time, Cause or Reason, Purpose, Result or Consequence, Condition, Concession, and Comparison
- Some Conjunctions and Their Uses
The Interjection
The Verb
- Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
- Intransitive Verbs Used as Transitive Ones
- Verbs of Incomplete Predication
- Complement of the Verb
- Complement of the Predicate
- Predicative Noun
- Predicative Adjective
- Subjective and Objective Complement
- Strong and Weak Verbs
- Auxiliaries
Mood
- Imperative Mood, Indicative Mood and Subjunctive Mood
Review
- The Infinitive
  - Uses of the Infinitive
  - Gerundial or Qualifying Infinitive
  - Infinitive – Active and Passive
- The Participle
  - Present and Past Participle, Participial Phrase
  - Participial Adjectives
  - Participle – Active and Passive
  - Uses of the Participle
  - Errors in the Use of the Participle
- The Gerund
  - Uses of the Gerund

Punctuation

Punctuation
- Full Stop
- Comma
- Semicolon
- Note of Exclamation
- Inverted Commas
- Dash
- Hyphen
- Parentheses
- Apostrophe
Capital Letters
Spelling
- Doubling the Consonant
Words
- Compound Words
- Primary Derivatives
- Secondary Derivatives
- Compound Nouns, Compound Adjectives, Compound Verbs
- English Prefixes and Suffixes
- Latin Prefixes and Suffixes
- English Words Using Latin Roots:
  - Actus, Bellum, Brevis, Capio, Cordis, Fundus, Judex, Litera, Locus, etc.
- Greek Prefixes and Suffixes
- English Words Using Greek Roots:
  - Biblos, Doxa, Idios, Onoma, Phone, Polus, Treis, Tupos, etc.

English Composition I

Analysis of Simple Sentences
- Subject and Predicate
  - Simple Subject and Simple Predicate
  - Subjective Complement
  - Adverbial Qualification
  - Predicative Adjective and Predicative Noun
  - Direct Object and Indirect Object
  - Objective Complement
- Phrases
  - Adjective Phrases
  - Adverb Phrases
  - Noun Phrases
- Clauses
  - Adverb Clauses
  - Adjective Clauses
  - Noun Clauses
- Sentences
  - Simple Sentence, Compound Sentence
  - Subordinate Clause
  - Complex Sentence
  - Noun Clauses, Adjective Clauses, Adverb Clauses
  - Conversion of Simple Sentences to Compound Sentences
  - Conversion of Compound Sentences to Simple Sentences
  - Conversion of Simple Sentences to Complex Sentences
  - Conversion of Complex Sentences to Simple Sentences
  - Conversion of Complex Sentences to Compound Sentences
  - Synthesis of Sentences
  - Sequence of Tenses
- Direct and Indirect Speech
  - Rules for Changing Direct Speech into Indirect Speech
  - Questions, Commands and Requests; Exclamations and Wishes
  - Conversion of Indirect into Direct
- Idioms and Collocations

Figures of Speech

Alliteration	Allusion	Anaphora	Antithesis	Assonance
Chiasmus	Hyperbole	Litotes	Metaphor	Metonymy
Onomatopoeia	Parallelism	Parenthesis	Personification	Point of View
Repetition	Rhetorical Question	Simile	Synecdoche	Understatement

English Composition

Paragraph-Writing
Story-Writing
Reproduction of a Story-Poem
Story-Writing
Letter-Writing
- The Heading
- Salutation
- Body of the Letter
- The Subscription
- The Signature
- The Superscription
Classification of Letters
- Friendly Letters
- Invitations
- Business Letters
- Letters of Application
- Official Letters
- Letters to Newspapers
Precis-Writing
- Uses of Precis-Writing
- The Art of Compression
- Usage of Indirect Speech
- Revision
Expansion of Passages
Essay-Writing
- Unity, Order, Brevity and Style
- The Personal Touch
- Paragraphs
- Structure of an Essay
- The Introduction
- The Body of the Essay
- The Conclusion
Essays
- Reflective Essays
- Narattive Essays
- Descriptive Essays
- Expository Essays
- Imaginative Essays

Poetry

What is Poetry?
Regular Rhythm
Rhyme
Stanzas
Essential Characteristics of Poetry
- Music (Verbal Music)
  - Rhyme - Internal Rhymes
  - Vowel and Consonant Sounds
  - Onomatopoeia
  - Alliteration
  - Repetition
  - Refrains
- Vision
- Imagery
  - By Description
  - By Certain Figures of Speech
  - By Picturesque Epithets
- Emotion
Analysis of poetry
- Substance
- Language
- Imagery
- Sound Effects
- Striking Lines