Verbs

Giving commands, instructions, and requests: Open the door. Please sit down.

Verbs that connect subjects to descriptions: be, seem, become, appear

Common expressions with make and do: make a decision, do homework

Making subjects and verbs match in number: singular subjects take singular verbs

Getting others to do things: have something done, make someone do, let someone do

Using 'get' instead of 'be' in passive constructions

Common expressions: have a look, have a rest, get ready, get lost

Causative structure for services done by others

Phrasal verbs where the object must come after the particle: look after the children (not look the children after)

Phrasal verbs where the object can go between verb and particle: turn off the light / turn the light off

Verbs that describe states and rarely use continuous forms

Expressing past habits and states: used to do, would do, be used to doing

What follows verbs: verb + to, verb + -ing, verb + object + to

Expressing regrets and hypothetical desires: I wish I had more time