G7 Simple and Perfect Tenses and S-V Agreement

Schedule:

8:30-9:15 Review (Tenses and S-V Rules)

9:15-9:25 Instructions and Announcement

​9:25-11:30 Asynchronous Tasks

- GForm​: Practice Exercise

- Quipper Task​: Verb Transitivity

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Review

Verb Tenses

A verb’s tense tells you when the action takes place (time).

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Action verbs and linking verbs have tenses.

Simple Tenses

Verb Tense

Multiple Choice

Identify the tense of the verb in the sentence.

She will train four athletes for the Olympic games next year.

• present tense

• past tense

• future tense

Multiple Choice

Identify the tense of the verb in the sentence.

Hilda threw her food container outside of the room.

• present tense

• past tense

• future tense

Multiple Choice

Identify the tense of the verb in the sentence.

Mildred likes to stroll during weekends.

• present tense

• past tense

• future tense

Multiple Choice

What is the correct verb to use to complete the sentence?

Last December, the family ______ to Baguio to visit friends and relatives.

• go

• goes

• went

• gone

Multiple Choice

What is the correct verb to use to complete the sentence?

My group ________ about our science project topic later after class.

• think

• thinks

• thought

• will think

Multiple Choice

What is the correct verb to use to complete the sentence?

Brenda and Wilmer _____ the Bible everyday before .

• read

• reads

• will read

Multiple Choice

What is the correct verb to use to complete the sentence?

The mailman ______ our letters every Tuesday.

• deliver

• delivers

• delivered

• will deliver

​The perfect tenses of a verb express actions that were completed or will be completed by a certain time.

Multiple Choice

Identify the tense of the verb in the sentence.

I have taken swimming lessons since October.

• present perfect tense

• past perfect tense

• future perfect tense

Multiple Choice

Identify the tense of the verb in the sentence.

By June 20, I will have attended thirty lessons.

• present perfect tense

• past perfect tense

• future perfect tense

Multiple Choice

Identify the tense of the verb in the sentence.

 My teacher has complimented me on my Australian crawl.

• present perfect tense

• past perfect tense

• future perfect tense

Multiple Choice

Identify the tense of the verb in the sentence.

 Before March, I had won six races.

• present perfect tense

• past perfect tense

• future perfect tense

Subject-Verb Agreement

​Basic rule: Singular subject takes the singular verb.

Plural subject takes the plural verb​.

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Singular verb: Add -s at the end of the verb (plays, reads, cooks)

Plural verb: base form of the verb (play, read, cook)​

Multiple Choice

She _____ these bottles in the warehouse today.

• must bring

• must brings

Multiple Choice

The physician _____ a patient today.

• has

• have

Multiple Choice

The physician _____ it to his appointment if not for the traffic.

• could has made

• could have made

Multiple Choice

You ____ seminars to the new employees.

• give

• gives

Multiple Choice

Statistics (is, are) easy for those who are interested in the subject.

• is

• are

Multiple Choice

Measles (is, are) a contagious disease.

• is

• are

Multiple Choice

The teachers or the student _____ the textbook.

• read

• reads

Multiple Choice

Either potatoes or beans ______ with the chicken.

• is

• are

Multiple Choice

The attorneys and the witness ______ on the testimony.

• agree

• agrees

Singular

• Everything

• Everybody

• Somebody

• Something

• Nothing

• Either

• Neither

• Each

• Anybody

• Anything​

​Indefinite Pronouns

Plural

• Both

• Few

• Many

• Others

• Several

Singular or Plural

• Most

• Any

• None

• All

• Some​

Multiple Choice

The box with many flowers ___ to me.

• belong

• belongs

Multiple Choice

Everything _____ to me.

• belong

• belongs

Multiple Choice

Some of the journalists _____ about the current political situation.

• write

• writes

Multiple Choice

Some of the profit ___ invested.

• is

• are

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