Thus: (i). we have used the conjunction that before the Indirect statement. (ii). The pronoun I is changed to he. (The 1st Person Pronoun is changed into 3rd Person Pronoun). (iii). The verb am is changed to was .(Present Tense is changed to Past). (iv). The adverb now is changed to then. 1. ASSERTIVE SENTENCES Definition: An assertive sentence makes a positive (Affirmative)‚ negative or forceful statement. For example: 1. Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan
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of loss is in fact reinforced by a central thematic opposition between past happiness and present sadness. The vanished pleasures of the speaker’s youth are indeed contrasted to the difficulties and sadness of his present as an old man. Stanzas‚ too‚ are constructed on a structural opposition between past and present. This is evidenced by the obvious alternation between the simple present and simple past tenses. On the level of the lexis‚ this opposition is also demonstrated by the use of opposite
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1 a. Go‚ present simple b. Are saving‚ present progressive c. Have been‚ present perfect simple d. Have been going‚ present perfect progressive e. Had spent‚ past perfect f. had been sleeping‚ past perfect progressive and turned‚ simple past g. have been awarded‚ present perfect passive 2.2 a. ‘I read the report this morning’ is in the past simple tense‚ describing a completed action‚ something which is over‚ whereas ‘I’ve read the report this morning’ is in the present perfect tense‚ indicating
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you get green. a)will mix b)mix c)are mixing 2p II.Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple‚present continuous‚present perfect‚or present perfect continuous tense 1.John…………………………(not come) in today.He ……………………………..(work)all night. 2…………………………………………(you/hear)?A property developer…………………… .(build)some luxury flats on the waterfront. 3He……………………..(usually drink)coffee in
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[pic] Tense and Aspect Tense is the grammatical expression of the location of events in time. Tense in verbs express the time that an action occurs in the moment of speaking. There are three types of tense in english grammar. These are present‚ past and future tenses. One important structure that functions together with tense is aspect. Aspect is a grammatical category that indicates temporal features such as duration‚ frequency‚ and completion. Aspect expresses how the speaker views of
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campaign in the past that started with 100‚000 lives campaign‚ performing the right surgery on patients and giving patients access to their medical records as need be. On December 2008‚ Donald Berwick held his annual conference that was entitled the “Tense”‚ where tackled many improvement ideas and strategies that should be considered in order to achieve the goal of improving healthcare across the nation. In Berwick’s keynote speech‚ he proposed questions to the public like “what are we trying to accomplished
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night‚ Jenny wore a dress. It was beautiful’ in English‚ you would use the same form of past tense for each sentence. But when saying ‘ierisera‚ Jenny ha vestito un vestito. Lo era bellisima’‚ you would have to use the ‘part tense’ when saying ‘Jenny wore a dress’ but the ‘imperfect tense’ when saying ‘it was beautiful’. In English‚ we use one past tense form when referring to events in the past. The past tense in Italian emphasises that the event happened once and it was finished with but the imperfect
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The plane leaves at 10.00 tomorrow Form Present simple for future time The definite article + subject + verb in present simple tense + preposition + time marker Anticipated learner problems Students may add –ing to the verb as they may get confused by the fact that even though the verb is present simple‚ we are referring to a future event. Concept check questions Is he going today or is he going tomorrow? Is this about the present or the future? (Future) 2. If I had a lot
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CELTA Pre-Course Task – Pamela Thomason Task 1 1. My CELTA course will be within a multilingual group in a fairly small mixed gender class. Fellow students will all have some kind of formal education. 2. After finishing my CELTA I’ll probably teach both one-to-one lessons and lessons in monolingual groups. Task 2 1. I decided to teach adults partly because it will be easier to find employment in this context but I also like the idea of teaching to someone who voluntarily
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proposition describes‚ or the speakers’ judgment of the likelihood of the proposition being true. While modal auxiliaries are “helping words”‚ functioning as helpers to make up verb phrases‚ they are prohibited from being used independently. The present study attempts to conduct a corpus-based study on three modal auxiliaries should‚ ought to and must with regard to their collocations‚ colligations‚ as well as semantic features in Chinese learners’ oral productions. This study reveals that Chinese
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