English Grammar

English Grammar by Julia Berger page content 1 Cover 2 Content 3 Simple present 3 Present progressive 4 Simple past 4 Past progressive 5 Present perfect 5 Past perfect simple 5 Will-Future 6 Going-to- future 6 Future progressive 6 Futur 2 6 Negation 7 Passive 7 Reported speech 8 Conditional sentences 9 Reference Simple present The 1st verbform The simple present is used to express repeated situations Every sunday I play tennis.

Or for actings that happen after each other He comes home, throws his bag in a corner, and turns the radio on Or for things that are usual Our house stands in a quiet street signalwords: always, usually, normally, seldom, often, never, every, sometimes, rarely, occassionally, now and then Attention: Peter comes home NOT! Peter come home If you use he, she and it in a sentence you must put an -s at the end of the verb In negatations you use do as an auxiliariy and does for he, she, and, it Just one verb in the english language is different that is the verb to be.

I am You are He/She/It is We are You are They are Another exeption is the word have that you use as has for he, she, and it There are also exeptions after sharp words like watch or a verb that ends with o you put an e at the end of the word before the s He watches She goes and if there is no vocal before the letter y you write ie instead of that He flies but: She buys Present progressive You use it for actions that are happening on the moment that you talk I am just reading You also use it for actions that are in the future but already sure Mr. Baker is moving to Ohio next week.

Signalwords: just, at the moment, now, look! , listen!

To build it, you just put an -ing at the end of the verb and use the right form of the verb to be at the in front of it Exeptions: Verbes that have an infinitive with a short vocal you use the following consonant twice put-putting Verbes that have an e at the end that you don speak like the word write are built without the e writing Also verbs that end with the letters -ie at the end are special that -ie moves into a y lie-lying Simple past You use the simple past for actions that are come after each other which started in the past and are done now.

Yesterday I wrote a letter signalwords: last, ago, yesterday, etc.

If you have a regular verb you just put an -ed on the end If you have a irregular verb you take the 2nd verbform If you have a Negation you got to use the auxiliar didn and because didn is already in the past you got to use the infinitif after it.

Exeptions: to be has got 2 pastforms: was/were singular: I was, you were, he/she/it was plural: we were, you were, they were 2. If the infinitif ends on -e you just put a simple -d on the end.

Decide-decided 3. -y after a consonant becomes -i- tidy-tidied 4. After short vocals you take the consonant at the end twice stop-stopped 5. After an accented -er -ir or -ur at the end of the infinitif you double the -r prefer-preffered Past ...