The Future Tenses Simple Future There are two different forms in English to express future in the Simple Future: ’ be going to’ and ’will ’. ’Will’ is used to express promises and things we decide to do in the moment of speaking‚ ’going to’ is used to express our plans. Both of those forms can be used to express our predictions. Here goes a list to make it more readable. Use (Will) : 1. Promises (Use 1) 2. Unplanned actions (Use 2) 3. Predictions (Use 3) Use (Going to)*: 1. Planned
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ASSELIT Grammar Test on Tenses Direction: Encircle the best answer in each question. 1. Marie started to cook for her visitors’ meal an hour ago. She is still cooking. a. Marie is cooking for an hour already. b. Marie was cooking for an hour already. c. Marie has been cooking for an hour already. d. Marie will be cooking for an hour already. 2. Yesterday‚ the computer crashed while he _________ the document. a. had saved b. saved c. was saving d. saves 3. Magdalene and her family went to
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tiempos verbales es sólo para reconocimiento de los mismos en los textos. El siguiente cuadro muestra‚ de manera muy sintética y a través de ejemplos‚ cómo se forman los tiempos verbales llamados simple en inglés‚ en sus formas afirmativa‚ negativa e interrogativa. SIMPLE PAST SIMPLE PRESENT SIMPLE FUTURE (will) I (You‚ We‚ They) need some more tests. (Yo) necesito algunos tests más. I worked all night yesterday. (Yo) trabajé toda la noche ayer. VERBOS REGULARES (desinencia –ed)
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Suddenly they _________(hear) a strange noise and ___________(look) at each other in terror. All evening they _________(play) cards and ____________(watch) television without thinking of the ghost. Fill in the following gaps with the appropriate tenses of the verbs in brackets. Last Friday I arranged (arrange) to meet my boyfriend at a restaurant. I (1) __________(arrive) first and because it (2) ____________(pour) with rain‚ I went inside. After an hour my boyfriend (3) ______________(arrive)
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VERB TENSE CHART SIMPLE PAST Portrays an action or state of being that took place before the time when the sentence is written. I WAS I RAN I ATE HE SMILED PAST PERFECT Shows that the verb’s action was completed at some time before another past event. It consists of the word had plus the past participle of the verb. I HAD BEEN I HAD RUN I HAD EATEN HE HAD SMILED SIMPLE PAST PROGRESSIVE The past progressive is used to talk about an activity that was in progress at a specific point of time in the
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When do Brian’s exams start‚ then? ANNA: Well‚ he is about to start them. The first one is tomorrow in fact. MARY: Do you expect him to do well? ANNA: We think he will. He’s taking nine subjects‚ and he’s quite optimistic. He is sure to past at least six of them – he’s very good at those six subjects. We think that he is likely to pass two of the others: French and art – he’s studied very hard‚ but he’s not naturally gifted in those subjects. We’ve got not hopes at all for music. He is
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English teaching‚ this could be‚ perhaps‚ rephrased as: when a tense is presented to be used only for the time its name represents‚ it is nothing more than a deception. Generally‚ it is taught that the tenses are only to express actions of the time they “represent”‚ allowing the student to gain the misconception that tenses are entirely connected with time‚ even though their uses are by no means limited to their names as such‚ i.e. “present tense” for “present time” only. This is "a truth presented as
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entire house by lunch. 7. We (dance) a few dances before midnight. 8. At this time tomorrow morning‚ they (begin) working. 9. At this time next week‚ we (catch) the thief. 10. By 2013‚ I (live) in Madrid for 5 years. III. Future Simple Make the future simple: 1) A: There’s someone at the door. B: I (get) it.. 2) Joan thinks the Conservatives (win) the next election.. 3) A: I’m moving house tomorrow. B: I (come) and help you.. 4) If she passes the exam‚ she (be) very happy.. 10) They (be) home
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WHAT TENSES MEAN TO ME Today fluency in English is a very valuable asset. For second language speakers‚ English creates better job opportunities abroad‚ and it is essential for living and working in foreign countries. Although tenses are only one small part of English language‚ they are nonetheless important to have mastered. One cannot run away from having to use the language in one way or another. China has come to realize the importance of mastering English‚ and have begun to learn the
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Indonesian is not like English as it does not have tense marking at all. Further‚ Vainikka & Young-Scholten (in Hsieh‚ 2009) state that optionality is the effect of competing grammars within the same individual: the grammar of
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