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Conjugation and tenses

Learn the importance of conjugation in languages like English, French, and Spanish. Understand how verbs change based on person and tense, with step-by-step guides for -er verbs exemplified.

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Conjugation and tenses

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  1. Conjugation and tenses Juan Arévalo

  2. Conjugation Howmanymistakes are there in thisconversation? • ‘Hi Paul.’ • ‘Hi Lucy. How are you?’ • ‘I’m fine. How am you?’ • ‘I’mgreat. Whatiswedoingtoday?’ • ‘Let’sgo to John’shouse.’ • ‘John? Who are John?’ • ‘John ismyfriend. He live near my house and he going to my school. He are being my best friend. He play football and like tennis too.’

  3. Conjugation • When we speak English, we change verbs all the time:​ • e.g. I listen, you listen, they listened​ • This changing of verbs is called conjugation​ • Conjugation is changing the spelling/form of the verb depending on the person and the tense.

  4. Conjugation • We need to conjugate verbs in French too.​ • Luckily there is a step-by-step process for this.​ • Verbs in Spanish come in threegroups: -er, -ir and –re.​ • Todaywewillfocuson-erverbs​ • Why do wecallthemarverbs?​ étudier écouter​ parler bavarder​ réviser aimer

  5. Conjugation: anexample • Let’s use parler as anexample

  6. Conjugation: puttingsomething back on • For –erverbswe use thefollowingendings:

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