Perfect Tenses
This perfect tense is used to describe an action that had happened before another action in the past.
What is the past perfect?
This progressive tense is used to describe an action happening right now.
What is the present progressive?
This punctuation mark ends most simple sentences.
What is a period?
Add the correct ending:
“walk → past tense”
What is “walked”?
This conditional describes real, possible future events and uses “will.”
What is the first conditional?
The present perfect uses this auxiliary verb in all its forms.
Have
Fill in the past progressive:
“They ___ (walk) to work when it began to rain.”
What is “were walking”?
This punctuation is needed in the following sentence:
“My sister who lives in Toronto is visiting.”
What are commas around “who lives in Toronto”?
When a verb ends in -y after a consonant, you change the y to this before adding -es.
What is “i”?
Complete the zero conditional:
“If water reaches 100°C, it ___.”
What is “boils”?
Complete the sentence in present perfect:
“Maria ___ already ___ her homework.”
What is “has…done”?
This tense is formed with will be + verb-ing.
What is the future progressive?
This punctuation mark joins two independent clauses without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
Add -s or -es correctly:
“box → plural”
What is “boxes”?
This conditional uses the structure “If + past simple, would + base verb.”
What is the second conditional?
This tense is formed using will have + past participle.
What is the future perfect?
In the sentence “She has been studying for three hours,” this tense is being used.
What is the present perfect progressive?
Correct the punctuation:
“Stop” she shouted “Don’t cross the street!”
What is adding commas and quotation marks as: “Stop,” she shouted, “don’t cross the street!”
Spell the past tense of “stop”.
What is “stopped”
Identify the conditional:
“If you had studied, you would have passed.”
What is the third conditional?
Identify the error in this sentence:
“By the time you arrive, I will have ate already.”
What is using “ate” instead of “eaten” (the past participle)?
Identify the error:
“He was been waiting for you outside for an hour.”
What is using “was been” instead of “has been”?
This punctuation error occurs when two sentences are joined by a comma without a conjunction
What is a comma splice?
Explain why the past tense of “plan” is “planned” but the past tense of “clean” is not “cleaned” with double n.
What is because “plan” has one vowel + single consonant, so you double it; “clean” has two vowels and a diphthong, so you do not double the consonant?
Correct the sentence:
“If I will see him, I will tell him.”
What is “If I see him, I will tell him”?