communicator. In this regard‚ the study is geared to look for answers how grammar [specifically verb tenses] will be best learnt by college students who need to acquire strong command of the English language needed by the market. From a linguistic standpoint‚ what makes Filipinos learn English with difficulty is the fact that the language itself is different from their native language; this is evident in the tense-aspect system of both English and Filipino as English has four aspects [simple‚ progressive
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Perfect Tense Form: Affirmative: I/ You/ We/ They _____ have lived in Alexandria. He/ She/ It _______ has lived in Alexandria. Negative: I/ You/ We/ They _____ have not{haven’t} lived… He/ She/ It __________ has not{hasn’t} lived….. Question: Have I/ you/ we/ they lived ……..? Has he/ she/ it lived ……..? Usage: Something happened in the past tense‚ but it
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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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Simple Present vs Present Continous I. Simple Present (Hiện tại đơn) 1. Sử dụng : Diễn tả 1 sự việc ‚ 1 hành động thường xuyên xảy ra hoặc 1 thói quen ở hiện tại (thường đi với các phó từ chỉ tần suất : always ‚ often‚ usually….) Example : I usually go to school at 7 I play football everyday Diễn tả 1 một sự thật hiển nhiên ‚ 1 chân lý luôn đúng The sun rises in the East Water boils at 100 degree C Dùng thì HTĐ với ý nghĩa tương lai khi nói về thời khóa biểu ‚ chương trình (ví dụ
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do we use the Past Simple Tense? We use the past simple tense to talk about an action or a situation - an event - in the past. The event can be short or long. Here are some short events with the past simple tense: The car exploded at 9.30am yesterday. She went to the door. We did not hear the telephone. Did you see that car? | past | present | future | | | | | The action is in the past. | | | Here are some long events with the past simple tense: I lived in Bangkok for 10
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students in ‘Group B’ will also get a card with the same pseudo names and with the same set of questions. The teacher reminds that the rule of the game is to ask complete questions and to get complete answers from their partners using the present simple tense rule which are on the board and warns that anyone who breaks the rule will be disqualified. The teacher then instructs that the students of ‘Group A’ should find their partners with the same name from ‘Group B’. Then the pairs must sit together
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J.A SUMMARY TENSE AND ASPECT Overview Some basic meaning distinctions between different tense forms are offered in terms of the REMOTE (or not) and FACTUAL (or not) status of perceived situations including notes on the future‚ time expressions‚ and the HISTORICAL PRESENT. A distinction is made between LEXICAL ASPECT‚ concerned with inherent properties of verb meaning such as STATIVE‚ DYNAMIC‚ PUNCTUAL‚ and DURATIVE‚ and GRAMMATICAL ASPECT‚ concerned with an internal versus an external perspective
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Spanish verbs irregular in the present tense! ! Stem-Changing Verbs Ending in -ar and -er! ! e → ie -ar o → ue -er pensar - to think! querer - to want/! acertar - to guess right/ ! love/wish! hit the mark! ascender - to ! apretar - to tighten/! ascend/promote! squeeze/be tight! defender - to ! atravesar - to cross! defend! cerrar - to close! descender - to ! comenzar - to begin/! descend! commence! encender - to light/! confesar - to confess! ignite! despertar(se)
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THE COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TENSES OF ENGLISH AND THOSE OF ARABIC I. INTRODUCTION A. The Background Of The Problem We have known that there are very much variations of language in The world. Those variations can be found in the real event of the communication. Ronald Wardaugh in Introduction to linguistic‚1977:3 states as follows: “Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication”. For those definition above we can conclude that language consists of the symbols that
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Grammatical Categories of Speech The main grammatical categories are Determiner‚ Auxiliary‚ Coordinator‚ and Complementizer. As also mentioned above‚ it is hard to define grammatical categories in terms of meaning because they have very little. Their function is to make the lexical categories fit together. • Determiner (D) The determiner category includes the articles a(n) and the‚ as well as demonstratives‚ possessive pronouns‚ possessive nouns‚ some quantifiers‚ some interrogatives‚ and
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