To be more confident in communicating in English, you should "have ready" some common structures. Below are 10 sentence structures you must know when learning English.
Note:
+ "adj" stands for adjectives such as "difficult", "impossible", "hard", "interesting". ..
+ Whether or not the verb "find" adds the suffix "s" depends on the subject that precedes it (he/she + finds, we/I/they + find);
+ Sth is short for "something".
For example:
- I find it very difficult to speak English confidently
- We find it impossible to win this battle.
- She finds it interesting to read that book.
- He finds it hard to communicate with his new colleagues.
- I prefer working from home to working at the office.
- Anna prefers cooking to cleaning.
- They prefer football to basketball.
You use this structure to describe someone who used to do something as a habit in the past and now doesn't do it anymore.
- My dad used to smoke before I was born.
- When I was a child, I used to play football with my classmates.
- She used to visit this bookstore when she was a university student.
- She’s used to getting up early.
- I’m used to studying at the library.
- We’re used to going to church every Sunday.
- They got used to having meetings every morning.
- He got used to driving to work.
- The rain stops us from playing football.
- He tried to stop me from getting married.
- Lily’s mother stopped her from going to the party last night.
- My doctor advised me to do exercise every day.
- I advised Leo to study hard.
- She advised us to go to the hospital as soon as possible.
- I spend 5 hours on learning English every day.
- Erica spends a lot of money on shopping.
- We spent the whole afternoon discussing that issue.
- This book is so expensive that I can not buy it.
- She is so stingy that no one wants to hang out with her.
- He speaks so fast that we can not understand.
- She is too young to get married.
- I am too exhausted to do anything.
- We are too old to play this kind of game.
- She is old enough to get married.
- The weather is nice enough for us to go out.
- This essay is good enough to get a high mark.