Informele brief maken, grammatica

Own adress, without your name.

• if you send it abroad, also write the name of your country: the netherlands

Aan de zoom 62

1422 MD Uithoorn

The Netherlands

Skip a line. The date is written below your adress on the right and can be written in various ways:

21th  January, 2013 ; 21/01/2013

21th January, 2013

If you know the person, you can write:

• Dear Eric,
• Dearest Diana
• Dear Mr Drummond (married or unmarried)
• Dear Mrs Drummond (married or widow)
• Dear Miss Drummond (unmarried)
• Dear Ms Drummond (don’t know married or unmarried)

Dear Jennifer,

• No full stop after Mr, Mrs, Ms or Miss
• Divide the body of the letter into paragraphs by indenting each paragraph.
• If you want, you can use I’m or you’re

I hope everything is fine with you, your dad, your mum and those two silly brothers of yours. I’m just fine and so is the rest of my family.

My sister Ellen has just got married to Frank. Frank is a nice bloke. They haven’t got a house of their own because they can’t afford one. Prices of houses are astronomical in my country. And in yours? They have rented an Apartment in the city of Eindhoven. The reason I’m so happy is that Ellen’s old bedroom has now become mine! It’s a big room!

In your last letter you wrote me that you wanted to take up a sport. Have you already decided on a particular sport?

I really hope you’ll write me soon.

Finish your letter as follows:

• Yours,
• Best wishes,
• All the best,
• Kind regards,
• Love from (only when it’s a very good friend.

Below this, write your full name if you don’t know each other well. If you do know each other well, it’s enough to write your first name

Best wishes,

Sanne

PAST SIMPLE

Example

Sentence

+ form

Regular: verb + ed

Irregular: 2^e rijtje

Played

Go, went, gone

You called bob

- form

Didn’t + verb

I didn’t play

You didn’t call bob

? form

Did + verb

Where did you go?

Did you call bob?

Use

Yesterday, last week, 2008, 3 months ago,

used to, would

I saw Jan yesterday.

We used to live in Utrecht

PRESENT PERFECT

Sentence

+ form

He/she/it: has + verb+ ed/d

I/we/you/they: have + verb+ ed/d

She has already washed her hair.

They have just cleaned their shoes

- form

He/she/it: hasn’t + verb+ ed/d

I/we/you/they: haven’t + verb + ed/d

He hasn’t finished his homework yet.

We haven’t visited our grandpa for a month

? form

He/she/it: has+ verb+ ed/d?

I/we/you/they: have + verb+ ed/d?

Has it watered the flower yet?

Have you washed the car?

Use

Already, always, yet, just, never, ever, since, for, how long? , this morning

I’ve always wondered about that.

Irregular verb

3e rijtje

We’ve never beaten that team yet.

Past  Perfect

Sentence

+ form

Regular: had + verb +ed/d

Irregular: had + 3e rijtje

When I had saved enough money, I bought a new car

By the time I got to the station, the train had already left

- form

Regular: hadn’t + verb + ed/d

Irregular: hadn’t + 3e rijtje

We couldn’t eat at a restaurant because we hadn’t booked a table

He saw people he hadn’t seen in years

? form

Regular: had + verb +ed/d?

Irregular: had + 3e rijtje?

Had you studied hard before you took your exams?

Had they eaten lots of sweets before they went to bed?

Use

yesterday, last week, already, when, before, by the time

Om aan te geven dat de ene handeling was afgelopen toen de andere begon:

I apologised because I had left my money at home.

Past  Continuous

Sentence

+ form

He/she/it: was + verb + ing

I/we/you/they: were + verb + ing

It was snowing all day long yesterday.

We were playing basketball yesterday afternoon.

- form

He/she/it: wasn’t+ verb + ing

I/we/you/they: weren’t + verb + ing

He wasn’t doing his homework at 4 o’clock yesterday.

We weren’t having a picnic yesterday.

? form

He/she/it: was + verb + ing?

I/we/you/they: were + verb + ing?

Was she watching TV last Sunday evening?

Were you drinking coffee at the café?

Use

yesterday, yesterday morning, at 2 o’clock yesterday, last Saturday, on Sunday last week.

At 10 o’clock last night I was still learning

Irregular verb

1e rijtje + ing

(drive, drove, have driven)

While he was driving to work, Mr. Miller had an accident.

Iets was aan de gang, maar werd onderbroken

- was je aan het tennissen toen het

  begon te regenen?

- Mike kreeg een ongeluk toen hij 

  naar huis fietste

- were you playing tennis when   

   it started to rain?

- Mike met with an accident when he was cycling home.