VERB FORMS EXAMPLE WHEN TO USE?

1 ROOT VERB

2 PRESENT SIMPLE (3RD PERSON SINGULAR)

3 PAST FORM

4 PAST PARTICIPLE FORM

5 CONTINUOUS FORM
 VERB FORMS EXAMPLE WHEN TO USE?
1 ROOT VERB • Talk • After preposition ‘to’ → to swim (untuk buat sesuatu)
• Go • As an instruction → ‘Go to school’
• Swim • Use after modal verb → I will swim tomorrow. I can swim now.
• Use after do/does/did (in questions/negative sentences) → Do you swim?
• Mental verbs (feelings, opinion, senses, thinking) → I think he is cute.

2 PRESENT SIMPLE (3RD PERSON SINGULAR) • Talks • Use for present 3rd person singular: She talks to him
• Goes • To describe a routine: He swims every day.
• Swims • Before a gerund: He goes jogging every day.

3 PAST FORM • Talked • to describe a verb that happened in the past

• Went • For singular/plural 1st, 2nd, 3rd person
• Swam • I swam yesterday.

4 PAST PARTICIPLE FORM • Talked • To describe an event that has happened by the time you talk about it
• Gone • Follows auxiliary verb has/have/had → I had talked to the principal.
• Swum • Follows auxiliary verb is/was/am to create passive sentence → I was taken to
the principal’s office.

5 CONTINUOUS FORM • Talking • To describe current action when it was described

• Going • Follows auxiliary am/is/are/were → She is swimming now.
• Swimming • to show that something will or will not happen in the near future
→ she is going to meet him tonight.
• Acts as gerund (verb changes to noun) → He goes jogging every day.