Verb and Tense

​An Overview of this Week's Activity

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Verb and Tense

​Basics of Email​

How to Talk about Various Speech Habits​

Tips for Celebrity Interview.​

By Team English @ Lendi

Open Ended

Make up a sentence with a noun and a verb.

Multiple Choice

How many verbs are there in this sentence?

"What are you eating now and why are you not helping the class?"

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

VERB

Def:  An action, a state of being or existence (position) or possession​

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• The boy cried. (Action)

• Sam is a clever boy. (Position)

• I have a bungalow. (Possession)

Let's have a look at it

​Def: A verb used to form tenses, mood, voice etc. of other verbs.

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​List:​

​Be, am, is, are, was, were, do, does, did, have, has, and had, shall, should, will, would, can, could, may, might. must, ought, need, dare, had to, have to, etc.

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Be

a. As a principal verb ‘Be’ is used:

1. with a noun or pronoun identifying or asking about the subject​

Eg : "Paul is a teacher."

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b. As an auxiliary verb ‘Be’ is used:

1. In the formation of the continuous tense.

Eg. "He was writing."

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​Auxillaries

​DO (do, does, did)

As an auxiliary verb ‘Do’ is used to emphasize an assertion​

Eg. "He does look sad.​"

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HAVE (have, has, had)

​As an auxiliary verb ‘Have’ is used with the infinitive to indicate obligation:

E.g. "I have to be there by ten O’clock."

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​SHALL

Used in first, second and third persons to express a command or promise:, threat or determination:

​"He shall get a reward if you get first class."

​"You shall be punished for your rude behavior."

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SHOULD

• ​in clauses of condition to express a supposition that may not be true

E.g. If they should come, ask them to wait.​

• ​after lest

  Eg. Ride carefully lest you should fall.​

​DARE

As an auxiliary ‘dare’ is commonly used with ‘not’:

E.g. She dare not do it.​

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​USED

Used is used:

1. to refer to a past habit / to describe what once was. It is followed by the to infinitive.

E.g. He used to spend his holidays with his brother. They used to look after their business.

2. ‘to be used’ is used to mean ‘accustomed’

E.g. He is used to driving long distances.

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Multiple Choice

"Abdul became a soldier."

What type of a verb is "became"?

• Transitive

• Intransitive

• Helping/Linking

Open Ended

Place a helping verb in the following sentence and show how the meaning of the sentence changes:

The police arrested the thief."

Multiple Choice

"John has a scooter."

What type of verb is "has"?

• Transitive

• Intransitive

• Linking/helping

Multiple Choice

How many tenses and its types are available in English?

• 3

• 6

• 9

• 12

TENSE:​

Def: ​ Time of an action

TYPES:

Past,

Present

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Future​

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Open Ended

"I will be leaving for work in a few minutes."

What tense is this sentence in?

Open Ended

Identify the mistake:

"We were on our way to school. Suddenly, the sky turns dark."

Fill in the Blanks

I was eating when she

. (sneeze)

Open Ended

I have been _____ (give) the opportunity to teach ES-I to 2nd year students.

Open Ended

Identify the error:

"I am so weak that I may not walk."

​VOCABULARY

How to Talk about Various Speech Habits

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