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Grammar - Elementary

To Be

To Be
Positive	Negative	Question
I am You are He is She is It is We are You are They are	I am not You aren't He isn't She isn't It isn't We aren't You aren't They aren't	Am I? Are you? Is he? Is she? Is it? Are we? Are you? Are they?

Examples.

My father is a doctor.
Venice and Milan are beautiful cities.
What a surprise! We are the first people in the cinema.

Madrid isn't in Portugal.
They aren't married, they are divorced!
I am not very happy today.

Are you from Brazil or Argentina?
How old are your two sisters?
Is it an old dog?

Adjectives in English are always singular and before the noun.

A big tree.
Three red cars.
I want a large red apple.

There are complex rules that determine adjective order. At this level, it is enough to understand the following.

Opinion

followed by

Size

followed by

Color

followed by

Nationality

Examples.

A large green tree.
A magnificent blue Italian vase.
A terrible Swedish movie.

Subject Pronouns	Object Pronouns	Possessive Adjectives
I You He She It We You They	Me You Him Her It Us You Them	My Your His Her Its Our Your Their

Subject Pronouns

We use before a verb:

I live in Italy.
We go to the cinema every Saturday.
They don't speak English.

Object Pronouns

We use after a verb, as a verb's object.

I like him.
We speak to them every day.
He told us in the morning.

Possessive Adjectives

We use to show possession before nouns.

My name is James.
His car is blue.
Our house is in Liguria Street.