Showing posts with label verbal tenses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label verbal tenses. Show all posts

Past simple vs past continuous

Past Simple vs Past Continuous

Present perfect continuous

Present Perfect Continuous Click HERE to practise with the present perfect continuous and present perfect simple.

Past perfect

Past Perfect

The future tense

The Future Tense

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More practice with the future

Present perfect vs past simple

Present Perfect

Verb patterns

Explanation Verb Patterns


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Modal verbs

Explanation Modal Verbs


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Present simple vs present continuous

PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT CONTINUOUS
1.Form: Infinitive form of the verb Verb to be + verb in –ing form

2.Spelling rules:
3rd person s Verb in -ing form:
 -s,-ss,-ch,-tch,-sh,-x: +es /iz/ -e: no e + ing (eg. take- taking)
(eg. catch-catches)
 -o: + es (go-goes) -ee: + ing (eg. see-seeing)
 consonant + y: no y + ies -ie: no ie + ying (eg. die-dying)
(eg. try-tries)
 vowel + y: +s (eg. play-plays) consonant+short vowel+consonant:double
consonant+ing (eg. run-running)

3. Auxiliary verb: DO, DOES VERB TO BE

4.Adverbs:
Frequency adverbs (never,always, Now,today,this week,at the moment,etc.
hardly ever,often,twice a month, etc)
Always (every time): Always (too often):
eg. I always make a cake on Saturday. eg. She's always forgetting her keys.

5. Use:
 Routines or repeated actions. Something happening now,at the moment.
Eg. I usually get up at 8 a.m. Eg. It's raining cats and dogs.
 Facts, things that are always true. Temporary actions.
Eg. People speak French in France. Eg. I usually work in the morning,
but today I'm working in the afternoon.

6. Stative verbs: Verbs that cannot be used in the continuous tense.
 Thinking: think, agree, believe, forget, know, realize, recognize, suppose, remember, understand, etc.
 Feeling: like, dislike, love, hate, prefer, enjoy, matter, depend on, want, etc.
 Possession: have got, own, belong, be, etc.
 Other verbs: consist of, contain, deserve, exist, mean, seem, promise, refuse, forgive, need, hear, etc.

The present tenses

Past Simple vs Past Continuous