Grammar Revision: Questions, Tenses, and Adjectives

• In this lesson, we review essential grammar structures needed for the admission interview at hospitals in Boston and London. We look at question formation, present tenses, the present perfect, past habits, and adjectives.
• Grammar Area
• Structure
• Example
• Present Simple
• Subject + verb (s/es)
• Dr. Miller works at Massachusetts General Hospital.
• Present Perfect
• have/has + past participle
• The resident has checked the vital signs.
• Past Habits
• used to + infinitive
• Patient Abigail Vance used to walk every morning.
• -ed / -ing Adjectives
• frightened / frightening
• The admission process can be quite exhausting.
• Remember
• Use auxiliary verbs (do/does/did) to form questions in simple tenses.
• Use the present perfect for actions with a result in the present, such as completing an initial assessment.
• Use 'used to' for past states or repeated actions that no longer happen.
• Use -ed adjectives for how people feel, and -ing adjectives for things or situations.
• Examples
• What is the patient's working diagnosis?
• Have you recorded the blood pressure reading yet?
• The elderly woman felt exhausted after the examination.
• She used to take regular walks in Chicago.
• Common mistakes
• Where the patient works?
• Where does the patient work?
• She is used to live in Seattle.
• She is used to living in Seattle.

Complete the sentences

• What time (arrive) ____ the admitting doctor arrive at Cleveland Clinic?
• Dr. Davis (complete) ____ the initial assessment.
• Patient Abigail Vance (smoke) ____ smoke before she moved to New York.
• The night shift nurse (check) ____ the vital signs every four hours.
• The resident felt very (tire) ____ during her shift at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
• Could you tell me what the (pulse) ____ rate is today?

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