Crime and Justice
Review the grammar practice and do the writing exercises to help improve writing skills.
Crime and Justice
Wish/If Only
- To talk about things you want to be different in the past or present.
- Present wishes = Wish/If only + past simple/past continuous
- Past regrets = Wish/If only + past perfect
- Ability/possibility = Wish/If only + could
Participle Clauses
- Used to reduce the length of sentences and add information
- Present participle – Start with verb ending in -ing. To give reasons or describe active actions.
- Past participle – Start with Past verb and has a passive meaning.
- Perfect participle – Start with having and use past verb in second clause. To show an action finished before the past verb.
Persuasive Writing
- Start with introducing the topic
- Give 2 or 3 reasons – topic sentence, explanation and example – separate into different paragraphs
- Sum up in a conclusion
Examples
Having given my speech in court, I went home.
If only I had visited her earlier.
He wishes he hadn't stolen the jewellery.
