Simple Present & Present Continuous
Identify the tense for this sentence: "She submits her assignments every week
What is the Simple Present?
Identify the tense usually signaled by phrases like two days ago or last week.
What is the Simple Past?
Name two time phrases commonly used with the Present Perfect to mean "up to now" (e.g., so far, since, for).
What are so far, since, for, recently, or just? (Accept any valid one)
Identify the tense associated with time phrases like already, before that, and up to then.
What is the Past Perfect (or Past Perfect Continuous)?
Name three structures/tenses commonly used to express future time according to our reference guide.
What are will, going to, and Present Continuous?
Fill in the blank with the correct time phrase: "Please hold on; I am reviewing my notes __________."
What is at the moment (or now)?
Identify the time phrase in this sentence: "My computer battery died two days ago."
What is two days ago?
Identify the time phrase in this sentence: "We have practiced this presentation for three hours straight."
What is for?
Identify the time phrase in this sentence: "By the time I logged on, Leo already left the server."
What is already?
Identify the time phrase in this sentence: "Are you meeting with your group on Friday?"
What is on Friday?
Identify the time phrase in this sentence: "Sam is updating his project files at the moment."
What is at the moment?
Which past tense is typically used with the time phrase at the time to describe an ongoing action?
What is the Past Continuous?
State what connection the Present Perfect tense makes using phrases like just, already, or yet.
What is a connection between the past and the present?
What does the Past Perfect tense indicate about an action relative to another event in the past?
What is it that happened before another past action?
Choose the correct time phrase for a future event: (last week / next week / two days ago).
What is next week?
Explain which tense is used with time phrases like generally, often, and never.
What is the Simple Present?
Identify the error in this sentence: "I will submit my research paper two days ago."
What is changing will submit to submitted (Simple Past)?
Correct the error in this sentence: "I have purchased my new reference textbook last week."
What is changing last week to recently (or changing the tense to Simple Past)?
Correct the error in this sentence: "By the time the professor arrived, the students just finished their presentation."
What is changing finished to had just finished (Past Perfect)?
Provide a sentence using the Present Continuous tense with a future time phrase (e.g., soon, next week, on Friday).
What is an example like "We are launching the project next week"? (Accept grammatically correct variations)
Correct the error in this sentence: "She is posting a new weekly update every week, right now as we speak."
What is changing every week to right now?
Fill in the missing time phrase in this sentence: "They were studying for their final exams __________ the fire alarm suddenly went off."
What is at the time (or when)?
Explain why the time phrase since 2010 requires a perfect tense rather than a simple past tense.
What is it because it describes an action or state continuing from a point in the past up to the present?
Complete the sentence with a valid past perfect time phrase: "The lead curator had secured funding __________ the excavation officially began."
What is before (or prior to that)?
Explain why the phrase in three days cannot be used with the Simple Past tense.
What is because "in three days" refers to a point in the future, whereas the Simple Past is for completed past actions?