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Verb Tenses

Verb Tenses. The Six Tenses of Verbs, The Four Principal Parts of Verbs, Regular vs. Irregular Verbs, and Conjugating the Tenses. Tense: A form of a verb that shows the time of action or state of being. Present : He watches . Past : He watched . Future : He will watch .

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Verb Tenses

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  1. Verb Tenses The Six Tenses of Verbs, The Four Principal Parts of Verbs, Regular vs. Irregular Verbs, and Conjugating the Tenses

  2. Tense: A form of a verb that shows the time of action or state of being. • Present: He watches. • Past: He watched. • Future: He will watch. • Present Perfect: He has watched. • Past Perfect: He had watched. • Future Perfect: He will have watched. • Present: He is watching. • Past: He was watching. • Future: He will be watching. • Present Perfect: He has been watching. • Past Perfect: He had been watching. • Future Perfect: He will have been watching. Basic Forms Progressive Forms (Always ends in –ing)

  3. The Four Principal Parts: A verb has four principal parts. • Present • Ex. Look, watch, see • Past • Ex. Looked, watched, saw • Present Participle • Ex. Looking, watching, seeing • Past Participle • Ex. (have) Looked, (have) watched, (have) seen • Implied or stated “have.” *** A participle shares qualities of a verb and an adjective. Example: I am eating.- verb; Let sleeping dogs lie.- adjective.

  4. Regular and Irregular Verbs • Present: cry, sigh, weigh, heave, drop • Present Participle: crying, sighing, weighing, heaving, dropping • Past: cried, sighed, weighed, heaved, dropped • Past Participle: (have) cried, (have) sighed, (have) weighed, (have) heaved, (have) dropped • Present: hurt, shut, find, teach, fly, write, sing • Present Participle: hurting, shutting, finding, teaching, flying, writing, singing • Past: hurt, shut, found, taught, flew, sang, wrote • Past Participle: (have) hurt, (have) shut, (have) found, (have) taught, (have) flown, (have) sung, (have) written Regular Verbs: The past and past participle are formed by adding –ed or –d to the present form. Irregular Verbs: The past and past participle are formed by changing the present form itself.

  5. Conjugating the Tenses • Conjugation: A complete list of the singular and plural forms of a verb. A short conjugation lists just the forms that are used with a single pronoun (e.g., I, you, he/she/it, we, OR they). • A conjugation will include all of the following tenses: 1) Present; 2) Past; 3) Future; 4) Present Perfect; 5) Past Perfect; 6) Future Perfect; 7) Present Progressive; 8) Past Progressive; 9) Future Progressive; 10) Present Perfect Progressive; 11) Past Perfect Progressive; 12) Future Perfect Progressive; 13) Present Emphatic; 14) Past Emphatic. • Emphatic forms do just that..they emphasize!

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