AIIMS B.Sc. Nursing cheat sheet

English

• Indefinite pronouns each, either, neither, everyone, nobody and somebody are singular and take singular verbs and pronouns.

• Use 'a' before a consonant sound and 'an' before a vowel sound: an hour, an M.A., a university, a European.

• Present perfect = has/have + past participle; use 'since' with a starting point and 'for' with a duration, and the simple past with a finished time expression.

• Prepositions of time: in + months, years, seasons; on + days and dates; at + clock times and fixed phrases such as at noon.

• Passive voice = correct tense of 'be' + past participle; only transitive verbs (those taking an object) can be converted to the passive.

• Reported speech shifts tense back one step (present → past) and changes time words: today → that day, tomorrow → the next day, now → then.

• Comparatives take 'than' and superlatives take 'the'; never use a double comparative such as 'more better'.

• Second conditional for unreal present situations: If + past simple, then would + base verb (If I knew the answer, I would tell you).