2017-08-15 Grammar: time frames

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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time frame: past, present, or future
aspect: simple, progressive, perfect, perfect progressive
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p. 3 (on the board) - What time frame is each paragraph in? What tenses can you identify?
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p. 4 - You can try to complete this list of irregular verb forms for practice.
When do we use past participles? (perfect aspect and passive voice)
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p. 5 Focus 2 - Writing in the Same Time Frame
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He had already seen the movie twice when she suggested it for their date.
- We only know that he saw the movie before she suggested it. That didn’t happen at a specific time in the past, but it happened before something else in the past, so we use past perfect instead of present perfect.
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exercise 4 - Complete the sentences in passages 1, 2, and 3 with the correct forms of each verb. Then check with a partner.
1 a will be
  b will be
  c will have completed
2 a had
  b was walking
  c saw
  d had gone
3 a has
  b is driving
  c gets
  d lives
  e takes
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Why might we change time frame in a piece of writing?
I didn’t study, so I will do badly on my test. - two events happen at different times
I am not a good student, so I didn’t study. - general to specific
(I wasn’t a good student. = Now I am a good student, or now I’m not a student.)
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p. 8 - With your partner, identify the changes of time frame. Then decide why each change was made.
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Homework: p. 6 numbers 4-6