- The document discusses verbs and verb tenses in English grammar. It covers the tests for verbs, auxiliary verbs, and the different verb tenses including past, present, future, perfect, and progressive.
- Key points include identifying main verbs and auxiliary verbs, the forms of verbs for different tenses, and using context clues like auxiliaries and verb endings to determine a sentence's tense.
- Determining verb tense involves checking for the auxiliary verbs "have" or "be" and their forms to identify the perfect and progressive tenses, or categorizing it as simple tense if no auxiliaries are present.
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Unit 12 auxiliary phrases, forms of the verb and tense
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3. Auxiliaries Auxiliaries are known as “ helping verbs ” – they “ help ” a main verb that MUST follow them. Here are some more auxiliaries: Must Can Be Have “ must ” and “ can ” are always auxiliaries . “ be ” and “ have ” are sometimes auxiliaries and sometimes main verbs .
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43. Combining Tenses In addition to being Perfect , Progressive or Simple , the tense must also be Past , Present or Future . Step III: check if the Verb or the Aux. “ have ”/” be ” are Past Form , Present Form or Future Form . If the verb / Aux. is Past Form , the sentence is Past Tense If the verb / Aux. is Present Form the sentence is Present Tense If the verb / Aux. is Future Form the sentence is Future Tense
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