2017-06-19 Grammar: tense/aspect review

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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How many tenses are there in English?
Three time frames: past, present, future
Each has four aspects: simple, continuous=progressive, perfect, perfect progressive
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To form the perfect: [have] + past participle
To form progressive: [be] + verb(ing)
perfect progressive = [have] + been + verb(ing)
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p. 3 exercise 1 - What time frame is each of these paragraphs?
1 past
2 present
3 future
4 past
5 present
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For practice, try to complete the verb chart on p. 4.
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p. 5 exercise 4 - Complete 1 and 2 with your partner. First decide what time frame each paragraph should be in, then write the correct form (including aspect) of each verb.
1 future time frame
  a will be playing (future progressive)
  b will be (simple future)
  c will have completed (future perfect)
2 past time frame
  a had (simple past)
  b was walking (past progressive)
  c saw (simple past)
  d had gone (past perfect)
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I met him in 2010. (It happened once and finished -> simple past)
When I met him, he was writing his third book. (At that time, he was in the middle of the book.)
When I met him, he had written two books. (Two books were completed before that time.)
When I met him, he had been writing for five years. (He started writing in 2005.)

Now, he writes books in New York.
Now, he is writing his sixth book.
Now, he has written five books.
Now, he has been writing for 12 years.

In 2020, he will live in Boston again.
In 2020, he will be writing his eighth book.
In 2020, he will have written seven books.
In 2020, he will have been writing for 15 years.
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p. 6 number 3 - present time frame
a has
b is driving
c gets
d lives
e takes
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Homework: finish the exercises on p. 6
	(Optional: complete the table of irregular verbs)