Simple present,simple past, regular and irregular verbs erika de leon

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Simple present ..............................................................2 Simple past ...............................................................4 Regular verbs .......................................................5 Irregular verbs ..............................................................6 BiografĂ­a ..................................................................8 Autor ...................................................................8


Simple present To express habits and routines, general facts, repeated actions or situations, emotions and desires permanent: I smoke (habit); I work in London (persistence); London is a large city (general fact) To give instructions or directions: You walk for two hundred meters, then a you turn left. Scheduled to discuss, present or future events: Your exam starts at 09.00. To refer to the future, behind some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until: He'll give it to you When You Come next Saturday.

The construction of the present simple (Simple Present) English is really easy, having the structure: [SUBJECT] + [VERB] (infinitive without to)

Consider: •

If the subject is 3rd person singular is added a '-s "to the verb. Let's see the conjugation of the verb "to live" (live) in present simple:

Conjugación I live you live he / she / it lives we live you live they live

Significado yo vivo tú vives él / ella / ello vive nosotros vivimos vosotros vivís ellos/ellas viven

Special Case: "-that" for the 3rd person For verbs ending in "-o", "- sh", "-ch", "-ss", "-x", "z", "-y" "-is" is added instead of "- s for the 3rd person singular. "


Verbo Tercera persona to go he goes to wish he wishes to reach he reaches to express he expresses to fix he fixes to kiss he kisses to buzz he buzzes

Significado él va él desea él alcanza él expresa él arregla él besa él murmulla

Special case: "-ies" for the 3rd person additionally, the verbs ending in "-y" when "and" is not preceded by a vowel, form the third person in "-ies".

Verbo Tercera persona Significado to occupy he occupies él ocupa to study he studies él estudia

But beware if the "-y" is preceded by a vowel, the third person is formed with a "-s" (standard desinencia)

Verbo Tercera persona Significado to buy he buys él compra


Special case: "-ies" for the 3rd person additionally, the verbs ending in "-y" when "and" is not preceded by a vowel, form the third person in "-ies".

But beware if the "-y" is preceded by a vowel, the third person is formed with a "-s" (standard desinencia)

Verbo Tercera persona Significado to buy he buys él compra

examples:

I play tennis. She does not play tennis. Does he play tennis? The train leaves every morning at 8 AM. The train does not leave at 9 AM. When does the train usually leave? She always forgets her purse. He never forgets his wallet. Every twelve months, the Earth circles the Sun.

Does the Sun circle the Earth?

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Simple past The simple past, also known as the simple past, is the verb tense used in the English language to narrate events that occurred at a specific time in the past. The structure of "simple past" (Simple Past Tense) in English is: [SUBJECT] + [past tense, ending "-ed"] Construction of the past As a general rule, to form the past in English "-ed" is added to a verb.


workâžœworked But must take into account some considerations: Irregular verbs For irregular verbs have to memorize your way past. We show you a couple of examples of irregular verbs:

Pasado en verbos acabados en "-e" Para formar el pasado se sustituye la "-e" final por "-ed".

Verbo Pasado Significado to go to buy to have to be

went bought had was/were

ir comprar tener ser o estar

Regular verbs Most verbs are regular verbs. Regular verbs are those whose past tense and past participles are formed by adding a -d or an -ed to the end of the verb.

Ver Pas


bo

ado

use die

used died

Examples: ask–asked chase–chased depend–depended employee–employed fade–faded gaze-gazed hand–handed join–joined kick-kicked learn-learned

back–backed chew–chewed decide–decided excuse–excused fold–folded guess-guessed hunt–hunted joke–joked laugh-laughed

Irregular verbs There is no formula to predict how an irregular verb will form its past-tense and past-participle forms. There are over 250 irregular verbs in English. Although they do not follow a formula, there are some fairly common irregular forms. Some of these forms are: • break, broke, broken • cut, cut, cut • run, ran, run • meet, met, met • come, came, come • repay, repaid, repaid • swim, swam, swum • be was/were been


examples: 1. Go get your brother. It’s time to eat dinner.

→ In this example, all three irregular verbs (go, get, and eat) are in base form. 2. I want to build a sand castle like the one we built last year. → In this example, the irregular verb build is in base form. The irregular verb built is the past simple form of “build”. When you look at the complete list of examples, you’ll notice that built is also the past participle of the irregular verb “build”. 3. He bet me that I couldn’t run five miles without stopping. I proved him wrong; I ran seven miles before I had to catch my breath. → In this example, bet is a past simple form. When you look at the complete list, you will see that all three forms of “bet” are the same. Next, in the same sentence, the irregular verb run is in base form. In the next sentence, ran is the past simple form of “run” and had is the past simple form of “have.” Meanwhile, catch is base form.


Bibliograf铆as: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepresent.html http://www.inglessencillo.com/presente-simple http://www.edufind.com/es/english-grammar/simple-present-tense/ https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_simple_%28ingl%C3%A9s%29 http://www.inglessencillo.com/pasado-simple http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/irregularverbs/ http://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/verbs/irregular-verbs/ http://www.k12reader.com/term/regular-verbs/

Autor: Erika NoEm铆 dE lE贸N dE lE贸N


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