Learning 89 Phrases

Why we focus on learning phrases?

If you know 1000 words, you might not be able to say one correct sentence.

But if you know 1 phrase, you can make hundreds of correct sentences.

If you know 100 phrases, you will be surprised at how many correct sentences you will be able to say. Finally, when you know only a 1000 phrases, you will be almost a fluent English speaker.

 

Still english has grouped its collection of phrases into the following phrase groups:

1. Present

2. Future

3. Past

4. Start and End of Conversation

5. Negative responses

6. Positive Response

7. Persuading/asking permission

8. Ask

 

Present

 Basic usage of 'I'm'

 Variations of 'I'm in/at/on'

 I'm + (verb)

 I have + (noun)

 I'm calling to + (verb)

 I'm working on + (noun)

 I'm dying to + (verb)

 It's time to + (verb)

 Here's to + (noun)

 It's my turn to + (verb)

 

Future

 I'm getting

 I'm trying + (verb)

 I'm gonna + (verb)

 I would like to + (verb)

 I plan to + (verb)

 I've decided to + (verb)

 I promise not to + (verb)

 I want you to + (verb)

 I'll help you + (verb)

 I wish I could + (verb)

 You should + (verb)

 It's gonna be + (adjective)

I gotta + (verb)

I have to + (verb)

I wanna + (verb)

 

 

Past

 I have + (past participle)

 I used to + (verb)

 I was about to + (verb)

 I didn't mean to + (verb)

 I should have + (past participle)

 You could have + (past participle)

 

Start and end of Conversation

 I'm thinking of + (verb-ing)

 Rumor has it that + (subject + verb)

 I'm here to + (verb)

 I have something + (verb)

 Thank you for

 Let's say that + (subject + verb)

 That's why + (subject + verb)

 The point is that + (subject + verb)

It occurred to me that (subject + verb)

I've heard that + (subject + verb)

 

 

Negative response

 I don't have time to + (verb)

 I was busy + (verb-ing)

 It's hard for me to + (verb)

 I'm having a hard time + (verb-ing)

 It's too bad that

 It's no use + (verb-ing)

 I'm not sure if (subject + verb)

 There is something wrong with + (noun)

 I'm not used to + (verb-ing)

 There's nothing + (subject) + can + (verb)

 Don't + (verb)

 There's no way + (subject + verb)

 I don't know what to + (verb)

There's no need to + (verb)

 

 

Positive Response

 I'm good at

 I'd rather + (verb)

 I can't help + (verb-ing)

 I feel like + (verb-ing)

 I'm looking forward to

 I think I should + (verb)

 You seem + (adjective)

 It looks like + (noun)

 It takes + (time) + to + (verb)

 

Persuading/asking permission

 I'm sorry to + (verb)

 Let me + (verb)

 Can I + (verb)

 Can I get + (noun)

 Do you mind if I + (verb)

 Please + (verb)

 Why don't we + (verb)

 It's very kind of you to + (verb)

 Please make sure that + (subject + verb)

 You're supposed to + (verb)

 You'd better + (verb)

 If I were you, I would + (verb)

 Let's not + (verb)

 

Ask

 Are you trying to + (verb)

 Do you like

 How often do you

 Do you want me to + (verb)

 What do you think about (verb-ing)

 How was + (noun)

 How about + (verb-ing)

 What if + (subject + verb)

 How much does it cost to + (verb)

 What are the chances of + (verb-ing)

Are you into + (noun)

How come + (subject + verb)