First Aid Kit
First Aid Kit GRAMMAR Unit One 1.1. 1. If you want to talk about what happens regularly use the Present Simple. E x a m p l e : We usually meet at the mall. 2. If you want to express how often something happens use the adverbs of frequency: always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, never. E x a m p l e : She never makes fun of her friends. 3. If you want to describe something that is happening now, use the Present Continuous Tense. E x a m p l e : We are listening to music now. 4. If you want to talk about the things that have happened before now use the Present Perfect Tense. Use ‘already’ if you want to stress some time before now and use ‘just’ if you mean recently. Put these words between have and Past Participle. E x a m p l e : I have already joined the band. We have just met our peers. Use ‘not yet’ to talk about things that haven’t happened before now, which usually comes at the end of the structure. E x a m p l e : John hasn’t made friends with us yet. 1.3. 1. If you want to talk about things that are now finished, use the Past Indefinite Tense with time expressions that refer to the past (last week, by 2005, 2 years ago, in the 19th century). E x a m p l e : I got a letter from my pen-friend a week ago. 2. If you want to describe an action which was in progress at a specific time in the past use the Past Continuous Tense. E x a m p l e : We were having a meeting at 3:00. 3. If you want to talk about two actions in progress at the same time use the Past Continuous in both of them. E x a m p l e : We were talking while Dan was completing his task. 4. If you want to show that something happened before a specific time in the past, use the Past Perfect Tense. E x a m p l e : When our pen-friends came we had already planned our trip round Ukraine. 1.4. Questions for more information If you want to ask for information, use:
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