Simple Tenses
The names of all the simple tenses.
What are Simple past, simple present, and the simple future?
The ways that verbs can be classified.
What are time and aspect?
Write a sentence with the simple present tense.
Answers may vary (Sample: I walk to school.)
The error in the sentence: Yesterday, I walk to school.
What is using the present simple tense instead of the past simple tense?
The change in the root verb form to become the simple present tense.
What is leaving the root verb the same or adding the suffix "-s" to the root verb?
What are simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous verbs?
Write a sentence using the simple past tense.
Answers may vary (Sample: Yesterday, I jumped into the car.)
The error in the sentence: After we finish dinner, we made dessert.
What is using the past simple tense (made) instead of the future simple tense (will make)?
The change in the root verb form to become the simple future tense.
What is adding the word "will" or "going to" before the root verb form?
The verb tense of this sentence: I was jogging to school.
What is the past continuous tense?
Write a sentence using the past perfect tense.
Answers may vary (Sample: I had cooked a whole meal.)
The verb tense in this sentence: I had been baking since nine o'clock this morning.
What is the past perfect continuous tense?
The change in the regular root verb form to become the simple past tense.
What is adding the suffix "ed" to the root verb?
The verb tense of this sentence: I will have eaten for two hours.
What is the future perfect tense?
Write a sentence using the future continuous tense.
Answers may vary (Sample: I will be cooking all day tomorrow.)
List 3 irregular verbs and their simple past tense forms.
Answers may vary (What are eat-ate, sink-sunk, and teach-taught?)
An example of an irregular verb in the simple past tense.
Answers may vary (What is the word "taught?" or What is the word "swam?")
The verb tense in this sentence: I have been swimming for six years.
What is the present perfect continuous tense?
Write a sentence with the future perfect continuous tense.
Answers may vary (Sample: I will have been teaching for ten years.)
The names of all the twelve tenses.
What are the present simple, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past simple, past perfect, past continuous, past perfect continuous, future simple, future perfect, future continuous, and future perfect continuous tenses?