Verb forms
Review of tenses
Timeline
Draw a timeline of your life. List 810 events on the time line.
Traveled
to Europe
School
@ Oxford
1999
Started
School 1983
Cali 2005
Husband
graduates
Got married
2
2008
Simple continuous
Perfect continuous
Perfect tenses
went
I __________
to Mexico in 2002. (go)
I __________
deep sea diving a few
have gone
times (go).
The drummer in the band __________
has studied
percussions since he was five. (study)
It __________
the jury two hours to
took
reach their verdict yesterday.
Washington, D.C., _____________
the
has been
capital of our country for many years.
(be)
it hit
had eaten
my friend stopped by
Formed by adding
has/have before the verb
and ed to the REGULAR
verb
Formed by adding
has/have + be
verb(been) before the
verb and ing to the verb
The Future
Will and be + going + to are often used to
describe future actions.
The Future
The simple present and present continuous
are also used to express future time. These
are often used used in connection with
schedules.
at 10 a.m. tomorrow
by the time you arrive
class ends
Einstein
liked studied only subjects that he
__________ . (like)
6.
Cancer researchers
think be
its likely that a cure for
will soon
most cancers ____________ found. (be + soon)
would go
8.
had gone
Past tense
Present tense
Correcting Shifts
Charles dickens was a nineteenth-century author
whose work is well known today. One of the
reasons Dickens remained
remains so popular is that so
many of his stories are available not only as
books but also as movies, plays, and television
productions.
We all know
knew from our childhood the famous story of
uncle Scrooge and Tiny Tim.
We often see
saw a television version of A Christmas
Carol at holiday time.
committee.
Emphasizes
the
president
Emphasizes
the act
meals
The books
race
Subject acted upon + The
have
are
was been
cooked
illustrated
won
Verb to be +
(by
(by the
the chef)
past participle +
artists)
by phrase (optional)
runner)
Exercise 6,
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
The wrong
number
dialed
(by
child dialed
thewas
wrong
number.
the child).
Thegrandmother
sweater was very
crocheted
very
My
carefully
carefully (by
grandmother).
crocheted
themy
sweater.
The
tornado
struck
Cherry
Creek
Cherry Creek was struck by a
last spring.
tornado
last year.
The
wind
blew
the
leaves
across
The leaves were blown across the
the yard.
yard
(by the wind).
In
the
seventies,
platform
shoes
In the seventies, many fashionable
were worn
many
fashionable
young
men by
and
women
wore
young
men
and
women).
platform shoes.
Subjunctive mood
Indicative expresses fact
Imperative expresses command
Subjunctive expresses conditions
contrary to fact or expresses
urgency/demand:
Should/Would, Used
to/Supposed to, can/could,
and will/would.
Can/could; will/would
Could as the past tense of can
Would as the past tense of will.