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Sweet but horrible, easy yet difficult, what else????Tenses, Tenses, and Tenses

TENSE EXAMPLES USES SIGNAL WORDS

PRESENTSIMPLE

TENSE__________________Helping verb: to doAlways used in

negatives &interrogatives + forlaying emphasis

he/she/it+does

I/we/you/they+do

(German)nicht=do not dontdoes not doesnt

____________________________________to be

I +amhe/she/it+ iswe/you/they+are

(German)nicht=

am not am notare not arentis not isnt

Im wereyoure youre

hes

shes theyreits

____________________________________to have

he/she/it+hasI/we/you/they+have

(German)nicht=

has not hasntdoes not havent

Ive weveyouve youve

hes

shes theyve

its

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sleeps, hurts, creeps,keeps, raids, lacks magics, objects, etc.

tries, , misses, kisses,crushes, smudges, etc

deepens, tiptoes, is,relieves, pains, etc.

HE/SHE/IT

He goes to school.He does go to school. Emphatic

Use

He doesnt go to school.

Does he go to School?Doesnt he go to School?

She is exhausted.She isnot at all tired.Is she tired out from work?Isnt she weary after all this?________________________

I/WE/YOU/THEY

They play all the time.They do play a lot. Emphatic

Use

They dont do their duty?Do they pay their dues?________________________

Whatis Judy like?Whois your father?Whoseis this pen? also.....Whose pen is this?

What kind ofpersonisshe?

Whendoes he go to school?Wheredo you buy groceries?

Whatdo they do all day?_____________________

Howdoes he go to school?How muchdoes it cost?How fardo you live?How come you are so late?How many times a weekdoesshe go shopping?_______________________

SPELLING RULESMost verbs take s She writes

He reads

Verbs ending inss, -sh, -ch, -x,and otakes-es

He teachesIt catchesHe relaxes

Verbs ending in

Verbs ending inconsonant + y,drop the y andtake -ies

She criesIt fliesHe copiesHe studies

Verbs ending invowel + y, justtake -s

She saysHe praysIt plays

PronuntiationWhen a verb ends ina /f/, /k/, /p/ & /t/

sound

/s/

a verb ends in a /s/,//, /t/, /d/ or /z/

sound

/iz/

a verb ends in anyother sound

/z/

1 Facts2 feelings 3Opinions 4 Daily routine5 Scientific facts6 Regularhabits 7 States of mind

8 News-paper headings9 Telling jokes &stories10 Permanent &long-lasting Situations 11 Offi-cial (fixed) arrangementsfor the future + timetables(busses, trains, flights,etc)12 Time Conjunctions +Present Simple/PresentPerfecti.e. we never usefuture tenses after timeconjunctions e.g./eg :

I will pick you up as

soon as I finish/havefinished my work. X assoon as I will finish my w.

TIME CONJUNCTIONS

When, if, as soon as, aslong as, hardly, while,than, as, till/until, the

moment that, by thetime, since, whenever,after, before, unless, etc

__________________moreSIGNAL WORDS

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Adjectives b/fnounspermanentperpetual everlasting,

incessanteternal infini-

te scarce unfailing

perennial rarecontinual

/constant the oddregu

larsporadic infrequent

frequent the/an occa-

sinal casual periodic

Adverbs (quite) a lot frequent-

ly all the time half the

time ad nauseam with

great regularity the num-

ber of times every day

every other week hou-

rly ,dailly, weekly, month-

ly, yearly every other /

second day alternate

weekends/ Tuesdays, etcalternative days At a

glance on the spot

there and then off the top

of your head

As a general rule, generally,

normally, in general, in most

casesgenerally speaking, as

a rule mostlymost of the

time for the most part onthe whole/by and large nine

times out of ten, almost al-

ways, always routinely typi

cally its standard practice

for one every time when-

ever every every day/week

year etc without fail all the

time,continuously, at all times

(formal) constantly perma-

nently incessantly day in,

day out morning, noon, andnight 24/7all day/evening/

summer etc long not(very)

common become/be (some-

thing) of a rarity be thin on

the ground be few and far

between there arent many

around (you dont often see

something) be fairly rare

infrequently rarely/seldom

rarely/seldom, if ever not

often (its not often that)

hardly/scarcely ever (almost

never) once in a blue moon

(extremely rarely)not regu-

larly (every) now and then/

every so often on and off/

off and on intermittently

sporadically in waves by/in

fits and startssometimes,

at times occasionally once

in a while now and then,now and again from time to

time periodicallyat regular

intervals every mile, metre,

two miles etc evenly spaced

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