VERBS-English Grammar

Sentence A (Adjective or Adverb Exercise) Problem: He (correct, correctly) defined the terms. The answer sounded (correctly, correct).

Answer: He correctly defined the terms. The answer sounded correct.

Sentence C (Adjective or Adverb Exercise) Problem: He measured the floor (exact, exactly). They proved to be (perfectly, perfect) (exact, exactly) measurements.

Answer: He measured the floor exactly. They proved to be perfectly exact measurements.

Sentence B (Adjective or Adverb Exercise) Problem: She (quickly, quick) adjusted the fees. She adapted (quick, quickly) to any situation.

Answer: She quickly adjusted the fees. She adapted quickly to any situation.

What is the conjunctive verb in the following sentence: Mary and Lucy are getting tired.

Are More examples: Being, Is, Am, Were,Was, Are, Becoming, Appearing.

They were waiting for the bus when the accident happened. Caroline was skiing when she broke her leg. When we arrived he was having a bath. When the fire started I was watching television.

Past progressive tense

They have been cleaning the office for two hours

Present perfect tense

The past continuous of any verb is composed of two parts

Subject +was/were +base + ing

Simple present tense: We were on our way to the movies. They clean the office everyday. He saw a bird flying outside.

They clean the office everyday.

She ________ have short hair, but now it's long use to didn't before Used to

Used to Used to = something was true in the past, but it isn't true any more

present perfect

Used to express action at no definite time in the past. They have cleaned the office for two hours.

past perfect tense

Used to express action completed in the past before another past action.

Modal Verbs

can, could, may, might, must, ought, should, and would. We use them to show obligation, possibility and necessity.

coordinating conjunctions

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. An easy way to remember these is the first letter of each word spells "fanboys." He writes songs and appeared on The Tonight Show.

They will be cleaning the office when the boss comes.

future continuous (progressive)

They will have cleaned the office by the time the boss comes.

future perfect

They will have been cleaning the office for two hours when the boss comes.

future perfect continuous (progressive)

If he ________ one minute later, he ________ the train would arrive, would miss had arrived, would have missed arrived, would have missed would have arrived, would have missed

had arrived, would have missed

They had been cleaning the office for two hours when the boss came

past perfect continuous (progressive)

Determine the verb tense for the following sentences: They are cleaning the office now. I am typing.

present cotinuous (progressive) The verb expresses action that is in progress as the speaker says it

He drives quite ________, but his brother drives really ________ slow, fastly slowly, fast slow, fast slowly, fastly

slowly, fast

They have just cleaned the office.

Past perfect tense

Correct the following sentences: I was (A) carelessly when I lit the fire. The flames were (B) high and I (C) near burned myself. Joanie felt (A) badly that her brother was not going to be able to go to the circus with her. But she felt (B) well about the fact that he was going to go to a party instead; so she (C) cheerfully went out.

Careless, High, Nearly Bad, good, cheerfully

past continuous (progressive)

Describes actions or events in a time before now, which began in the past and is still going on at the time of speaking. In other words, it expresses an unfinished or incomplete action in the past.

The "Big Three" auxiliary verbs: "be," "have" and "do" in all their forms

Do, does, did Am, is, are Have, has, had

It was the first time he ________ anything so spicy was eating has eaten had been eating had eaten

Had eaten We use the past perfect because we have two past actions.It was (1) the first time he had eaten (2) anything so spicy.The past perfect shows that (2) happened before (1).

present perfect continuous (progressive)

Indicates a continuous action that has been finished at some point in the past or that was initiated in the past and continues to happen. .

Jack is late. He ? be sleeping. (possibility, obligation, necessity) I ? clean my room today. (possibility, obligation, necessity) I ? wear a tie to school. (possibility, obligation, necessity)

Jack is late. He might be sleeping. (possibility) I should clean my room today. (obligation) I must wear a tie to school. (necessity)