LANGUAGE REVIEWER REGULAR PAST TENSE

VERBS FORM
Ex. Leo gets up at 5 o’clock every Admire Admired
morning. Admit Admitted
I. Verbs
Advise Advised
2. When we talk about a Beg Begged
a. Simple permanent condition or long- Behave Behaved
b. Prefect lasting situations describe described
c. Progressive
Ex. The earth revolves around the sun.
3. To indicate opinion IRREGULAR PAST TENSE
I. Simple Verb Tenses VERBS FORM
Ex. Dark chocolates are better than Be Was/were
Subject Base -s form white ones. Become Became
form Have Had
I, you, Swim 4. Talking about general truth
Pay Paid
They. Visit Ex. Jose Rizal is our national hero. Fly Flew
We Save Drink Drank
5. Talking about travel plans
He, Cares and timetables
She, it Goes
SIMPLE FUTURE TENSE expresses
Fills Ex. We arrive in Monaco tomorrow.
an action or situation that will occur in
the future. This tense is formed by
using will or shall with the simple
SIMPLE PAST TENSE expresses an
We use the simple present base form of the verb.
action or situation that was started and
tense: finished in the past. The past tense Ex. The president is going to visit the
1. When we talk about things verbs that end in –ed are called survivor of the landslide.
that happen repeatedly or regular verbs.
habitually
II. Progressive Verb Tenses
 2. Can also be used when we talk 3. Used when two actions that will
about an action that had already both be used at the same time
Present Progressive Tense
started and was still continuing in the future.
1. Expresses an action or an at a particular time
Ex. I am going to be studying, and he
activity that is happening now
Ex. At 4 o’clock, the volcano was is going to be making dinner.
Ex. Is the volcano erupting now? erupting.

2. Also expresses an action that is 3. Used to tell 2 actions that were

III. Perfect Tenses
happening around now, and not happening at the same time in
necessarily around this the past.
moment. Present Perfect Tense
Ex. While the mayor was making an
Ex. I am really studying hard about announcement, the people were 1. Used to say that an action
volcanic eruptions evacuating from their homes. happened at an unspecified
time before.
3. It likewise expresses an action
that is happening in the near Ex. I have seen that movie before.
Future Progressive Tense
future
2. Used to talk about change that
1. Indicates a continuing action-
Ex. I am seeing the volcanologist on happened over a period of time,
something that will happen
Wednesday.
some point in the future. Ex. You have grown since the last time
I saw you.
Ex. Mother will be joining the cooking
Past Progressive Tense contest in December.
1. Used to talk about an action that 2. Indicates that a longer action in
was happening before another the future will be interrupted by
3. Used to list the
action began a shorter action.
accomplishments of individuals
Ex. I was reading when he arrived. Ex. I will be watching TV when she and humanity.
arrives tonight.
Ex. Our daughter has learned how to Arise Arisen Awake Awoken It shows an action that will be
swim. Bear Borne Beat Beaten completed sometime in the future
Begin Begun Cling Clung before something else happens in the
4. An action that we expected to Bet Bet Dig Dug future.
happen has not happened yet Cast Cast Draw Drawn
and that we are still waiting for it Grind Ground Flee Fled Ex. I will have graduated by the time i
to happen. Hang Hung Cut Cut turn twenty.
Ex. Nelson has not finished his project
yet. Past Perfect Tense
IV. Voice of Verbs
5. Used to talk about an action that 1. Shows an action that happened
ACTIVE PASSIVE
started in the past and before another action in the
Performs the Receives the
continues up until now. past. action of the verb action of the
Ex. I have been a teacher for more Ex. The team had won before I arrived. verb.
than eighteen years.
2. Shows an action started in the
6. Used to talk about a past action past and continued until another ACTIVE (Ex.)
that has the results in the action in the past happened.
present subject verb object
Ex. We had had that car for twenty people use Electronic
Ex. I have lost my toy. (I don’t have it years before it broke down. products
now.)

FUTURE PERFECT TENSE are

formed with will have or shall have and PASSIVE (Ex.)
the past participle of a verb.
VERB PAST VERB PAST subject verb object
PARTI PARTIC (Electronic Are used By people
CIPLE IPLE products)
Sentences that do not have an object The company is The workers are company by next
cannot be changed into the passive helping the being helped by year.
voice. workers the company
Active: Past Passive: Past
Ex. That old man sleeps on the street. Progressive progressive FUTURE TENSE

The company The workers Active: Future Passive: Future

with will with will
was helping the were being
SIMPLE PRESENT AND SIMPLE
workers helped by the
PAST CHART The company will The workers will
company.
help the workers be helped by the
Active: Simple Passive: Simple company.
Present Present PRESENT, PAST, AND FUTURE Future with going Future with going
PERFECT TENSE to to
The company The workers are
inspires the inspired by the Active: Present Passive: Present The company is The workers are
workers company Perfect Perfect going to help the going to be
Active: Simple Passive: Simple workers helped by the
Past Past The company The workers company.
has helped the have been
The company The workers workers. helped by the
inspired the were inspired by company V. Tag Questions
workers. the company. Past Perfect Past Perfect

The company The workers had

had helped the been helped by
workers the company.
PRESENT AND PAST Future Perfect Future Perfect
VI. Gerunds
PROGRESSIVE
The company will The workers will
Active: Present Passive: Present have helped the have been
Progressive Progressive workers by next helped by the
year.
GERUNDS is a verb that always acts After 3. Use a singular verb for the
like a noun. It is always preceded by certain singular indefinite pronoun
+ing. verbs 4. Use a plural verb for the plural
To show indefinite pronouns
purpose
5. If using either, neither, nor, not
After adj.
GERUNDS PHRASE is a group of only, the subject closest to the
After subj. An act as Can act
words that start with a gerund and object subj./objec also as verb determines whether the
include other words related to it. t subject/obje verb is singular or plural.
ct less 6. Collective nouns such as group,
Ex. common jury, crowd, team, and more
Singing makes me feel happy. may be singular or plural.

She enjoys dancing at parties. - Acts like a noun

- Acts like an adjective
- Acts like an adverb X. Kinds of Adjectives

VII. Infinitives
DESCRIPTIVE Adjectives tell us the
VIII. Modals attributes (such as color, size, or
INFINITIVES are the base form of a IX. Subject-Verb Agreement shape) of nouns and pronouns.
verb usually preceded by the word “to.” Basic Rules on Subj.-Verb agreement:
1. A singular subj. Takes a LIMITING Adjectives specify or limit
INFINITIVE PHRASES can serve singular verb, the same goes for the nouns. (Articles, numerals,
different purposes in sentences plural. pronominals)
2. Words between the subject and
Category Use of Use of the verb do not matter. It is DESCRIPTIVE LIMITING
Gerund Infinitives always the subject that Common (happy, Articles (a, an,
After Gerunds long) the)
determines the verb.
prepositio only Proper (Chinese Numerals (three,
n Cuisine) first)
Pronominals
- Indefinite
- Possesive
- Interrogativ
e
- Demonstrat
ve