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- Greg Malivuk
- greg.malivuk@gmail.com
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- phone number
- email address
- license number (even if it includes letters)
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- English has a total of twelve verb tenses, formed of three time frames and four aspects.
- Time Frame: past, present, future
- - Time frame tells us the “focus time” for the action.
- Aspect: simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous
- - Aspect tells us the “shape” of the action in that time.
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- p. 3 exercise 1 - Identify the time frame of each paragraph.
- 1 past
- 2 present
- 3 future
- 4 past
- 5 present
- exercise 2 - Then start identifying the aspects of each verb.
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- Forming different aspects:
- progressive/continuous = [be] + verb(ing)
- perfect = [have] + past participle/verb(3)
- perfect progressive = [have] + been + verb(ing)
- (Careful that you hear, say, and spell the difference between “been” and “being”.)
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- Mostly, we stay in a single time frame over several sentences, because they all center or focus on the same time.
- Occasionally, we switch between time frames because we’re connecting actions from different times or we’re using the present for general truths.
- “I didn’t study yesterday and I won’t study today because I am very lazy.”
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- p. 5-6 exercise 4 - First decide what time frame each paragraph should be. Then begin completing them with the correct forms of the verbs.
- 1 future
- a will be
- b will be
- c will have completed
- 2 past
- a had
- b was walking
- c saw
- d had gone
- 3 present
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- 4 past
- a
- b
- c
- d
- 5 present
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- 6 future (This one would also make sense in multiple time frames.)
- a will leave / is going to leave
- b will be staying / is going to be staying
- c will find / is going to find
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- Homework: complete exercise 4 if you haven’t already.
- Optional: complete the verb list on p. 4 of the handout
- (You can check those answers yourself by finding a verb list online.)
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