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~ VERB TO BE ~
The verb be is the most common verb in English, and more irregular. The conjugation grammar is to generate all the forms of a verb systematically for each person, number, and time.
This verb means to be Both be like being. Its meaning depends on the context of the sentence, and we want to express in every moment.
The verb to be has three forms: am, is and are. How am only usedfor the 1st person singular, is only the 3rd person singular, and are for the other people.

  This is the conjugation of the verb to be:
AM
AM
I
ARE
ARE
YOU
THEY
WE
IS
IS
SHE
HE
IT

To be one of the auxiliary verbs in English along with to do, to have and will. To be performed when the role of auxiliary verb is meaningless.

For example tobe verbin a sentence is as follows:
A affirmative form:
-I AM a student

A negative form:
-I am not a student

A form interrogative:
* AM I a student ?
* Yes I am
* No I am not

For the interrogative form is TO BE VERB prepends the pronoun.

The verb "to be" is often depicted as contraction. La contraction’s is part of the verb phrase:

I am -- I'm

You are -- You're
Weare -- We're
They are -- They're

He is -- He's
She is -- She's
It is -- It's

~ PREPOSITIONS ~
A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.
A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence asin the following examples:

The book is on the table.
The book is behind the table.
The book is under the table
The book is next to the table
The book is between the table
The book is in my back pack

In each of the preceding sentences, a preposition locates the noun "book" in space or in time.
Prepositional phrases can be made up of a million different words, but they tend to be builtthe same: a preposition followed by a determiner and an adjective or two, followed by a pronoun or noun (called the object of the preposition).

Prepositions of Time: at, on, and in
We use at to designate specific times.
-The train is due at 12:15 p.m.

We use on to designate days and dates.
-My brother is coming on Monday.
-We're having a party on the Fourth of July.
We use in fornonspecific times during a day, a month, a season, or a year.
-She likes to jog in the morning.
-It's too cold in winter to run outside.
-He started the job in 1971.
-He's going to quit in August.

Prepositions of Place: on, and in
We use on to designate names of streets, avenues, etc.
-Her house is on Boretz Road.

And we use in for the names of land-areas (towns, counties, states, countries,and continents).
-She lives in Durham.
-Durham is in Windham County.
-Windham County is in Connecticut.

There are about 150 prepositions in English. Yet this is a very small number when you think of the thousands of other words (nouns, verbs etc). Prepositions are important words. We use individual prepositions more frequently than other individual words. In fact, the prepositions of, toand in are among the ten most frequent words in English. Here is a short list:
*


* From
* in
* inside
* into
* for
* behind
* below
* beneath
* beside
* before
* with
* up
* plus
* off
* on
* onto

~CAN / CANT ~
Can basically translates as the word power. Talk about a skill, something you can do
-It is usedfollowed by the infinitive without to:
I can speak Inglés.
You can speak Inglés.
We can speak Inglés.
They can speak Inglés.

-The negative is can not. As can be used with infinitive without to. It is the same for all people.
I can not speak Japanese.
She can not speak Chinese.
They can not speak Italian.

Interrogative and negative forms of CAN are similar to those...
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