Today we have a multiple-choice quiz for you to try. Decide which is the correct verb to use in each sentence.
Try this verb tense review if you want for English practice.
How many questions did you get right?
Auxiliary verbs are the verbs which help the main verb and give extra meaning to it. For example:
"I have studied English for three years."
The auxiliary verb have changes the tense of the sentence to present perfect, so we know the activity is ongoing.
"I studied English for three years."
These two tenses are both used to talk about things that happened in the past. However we use past perfect to talk about something that happened before another action in the past, which is usually expressed by the past simple.
For example:
"I had already eaten my dinner when he called."
In other words, First I ate my dinner, then he called.
The past perfect is often used with already, yet, just and even.
Time to do a quick review of the irregular verb write.
Write is the present simple tense: "Write your name on this paper"
Wrote is the past simple tense.
Written is the past participle.
Easy! Easy! Easy! Don't you agree? Complete the sentences using the correct verb.
Today's lesson is by Caroline
What is the difference between these two tenses and when do we use each one? Here's a brief explanation of present simple and present continuous as well as a quick test to see how much you remember!
Most verbs follow the rule of adding 'ed' when we want to say them in past simple, but some verbs sadly don't. These are the ones we just have to learn.
Can you remember what the following verbs are in past simple. Careful, some of them might be regular and some might not!
Today's lesson is by Caroline
Today's lesson comes from Danica at EC Cape Town English Language School
Some basic guidelines:
A few days ago we looked at how to use eat, ate, eaten. From what I can see, it was a pretty popular exercise and you must feel that it's important to review the basics.
Let's try another irregular verb, ride.
Ride is the present simple.
Rode is the past simple.
Ridden is the past participle.
Now then, complete the sentences with the correct verb.
How many did you get correct?
Take a look at these 7 sentences. How many of them have mistakes? Can you find the mistakes and do you know the reasons why?
