Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Personal Pronouns
subject form
object form
possessive pronoun
me
my
mine
you
you
your
yours
he
him
his
his
she
her
her
hers
it
it
its
its
we
us
our
ours
you
you
your
yours
they
them
their
theirs
Verbs. Verb Tenses: 1. Present. I like reading. She likes reading. (Remember to add s/ -es for 3rd person singular).
2. Past. She rented a book. (Regular verbs add ed). She gave it to me.(Irregular verbs have a special past-tense form that should be memorized.)
3. Future: I will sing a song for the talent show. (Use helping verb will + main verb).
Perfect forms. Present Perfect: use helping verbs have or has + Past Participle I have finished my project. (it can be abbreviated to: Ive finished.) Peter has finished the project.
Past Perfect: use helping verb had + Past Participle Before they came, I had finished the project.
Future Perfect: use helping verbs will have + Past Participle. I will have finished the project by 5 pm.
Important notes: Sometimes people confuse Simple Past and Present Perfect. What is the difference between:
I finished it. (Simple Past) means some specific time in the past. It can be yesterday,
last night, 3 days ago, etc. I have finished it. (Present Perfect) the important thing is the result, not the time. We do not know at exactly when or how many days ago the action was done. The
important thing is that by this moment we have the result a finished project in this case. Ive finished the project yesterday. This sentence is incorrect. It says yesterday, which means a time in the PAST, not present.
Subject Verb Agreement. The Verb should always agree with the Subject in person and number. Remember: I am reading . I read. I have read. She is reading. She reads. She has read. Peter and Ana (they) are reading. They read. They have read.
Using consistent verb tenses. If you are writing the sentence about an event in the past, make sure you use past tense verbs. If your story is about future, make sure to use future verb forms. Example. Correct: When the show started, I felt nervous. Incorrect: When the show started, I feel nervous.