Lesson # 4

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****12 Tenses Of The Verb****

- Simple Tenses: Something in general

Example: I am walking to the work everyday.

Correct: I walk to the work everyday.

Example: I had graduated last year.

Correct: I graduated last year.

Example: I am loving this food!

Correct: I loved this food.

Example: I will not be going to Canada next week.

Incorrect: I will gonna do that.

**Future Progressive: Will Be Going

- Simple Past Tense:

(1) Simple Present Tense: Dinosaurs are extinct. (General Fact)

(2) Simple Past Tense: Dinosaurs were vicious animal. (Already Past)

(3) Simple Future Tense: Something to do in the future.

***Present Progressive ---> Doing something in the present

Examples: I am walking.

***Past Progressive ---> Something doing in the past

***Future Progressive ---> Will be doing in the future

***Present Perfect Tense ---> Duration in the past

Example:

Correct : With regard to (Related to something else)

Another Examples:

I have been a tech support.

I have driven that car before.

***Future Perfect Tense ---> In the future you are projecting to do something.

Example: In the future, I will have driven that car.

***Present Perfect Progressive Tense ---> Duration of what you are doing.

Example : I have been walking in 2 minutes.

***Past Perfect Progressive Tense ---> Duration of what you did or something that interrupts you to do something

Example: I had been walking for 1 minute.

***Future Perfect Progressive Tense: Something you plan to do but it didn't happen, because something interrupts.

Example: I will have been walking but you arrive earlier.

Subject Verb Agreement:

General A ---> SS + SV

---> PS + PV

General B ---> SS (-S) + SV (+S)

---> PS (+S) + PV (-S)

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