is love it not ‘Your brother upstairs’, ‘I here’, ‘What’s happening?’, ‘I’m missing that plane’. Past said parents were packing their ‘Eleanor goodnight’, ‘She cried’, ‘Her suitcases’. Simple This is the base form of a verb (e.g. often inflected to agree ‘walk’, ‘do’, ‘run’) with the subject or to indicate time and tense (‘He walks’, ‘She does’, ‘It runs’) was ran as fast as (‘They walked’, ‘It done’ ‘He possible’). Continuous Continuous verbs (also called progressive) are formed by adding to the ‘-ing’ base form and using it with the verb e.g. is writing a was ‘to be’, ‘She letter’, ‘She looking out of the window’. Present and past verb forms can therefore be described as present simple or present continuous, past simple or past continuous. We can summarise these verb forms in the following table. simple continuous present John is in the kitchen. What’s happening? I love it here not listening I’m past She said goodbye. He was waiting at the gate. He cried. They listening weren’t She buy a new cellphone didn’t Participles There are two participle forms in English - present participles, e.g. ‘taking’, and past participle's, e.g. ‘talking’, ‘happening’, ‘going’, ‘taken’, ‘talked’, ‘happened’, ‘gone’.
‘Your brother is upstairs’, ‘I love it here’, ‘What’s happening?’, ‘I’m not missing that plane’. Past ‘Eleanor said goodnight’, ‘She cried’, ‘Her parents were packing their suitcases’. Simple This is the base form of a verb (e.g. ‘walk’, ‘do’, ‘run’) often inflected to agree with the subject (‘He walks’, ‘She does’, ‘It runs’) or to indicate time and tense (‘They walked’, ‘It was done’ ‘He ran as fast as possible’). Continuous Continuous verbs (also called progressive) are formed by adding ‘-ing’ to the base form and using it with the verb ‘to be’, e.g. ‘She is writing a letter’, ‘She was looking out of the window’. Present and past verb forms can therefore be described as present simple or present continuous, past simple or past continuous. We can summarise these verb forms in the following table. simple continuous present John is in the kitchen. I love it here What’s happening? I’m not listening past She said goodbye. He cried. She didn’t buy a new cellphone He was waiting at the gate. They weren’t listening Participles There are two participle forms in English - present participles, e.g. ‘taking’, ‘talking’, ‘happening’, ‘going’, and past participle's, e.g. ‘taken’, ‘talked’, ‘happened’, ‘gone’.
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