Tense in the Present
This present tense is used to describe an ongoing action or activity.
What is the PRESENT CONTINUOUS?
This verb is used for decisions made in the moment.
What is WILL?
This two-part ancient weapon features a curved wooden frame, tight string, and straight stick with feathers and a sharp end.
What is a BOW AND ARROW?
This is the past tense of the verb "X-ray".
What is X-RAYED?
The correct tense to use in this sentence:
"My friends and I usually go swimming on Saturday mornings, but we aren't going swimming today. Today, we (COOK / ARE COOKING) burgers and (SELL / ARE SELLING) them to people."
What is "we ARE COOKING burgers and ARE SELLING" them to people."
This is the negative form of "Will".
What is WON'T?
This word describes a type of clothing or item that will not be damaged by the rain.
What is WATERPROOF?
This tense describes a completed action in the past.
What is the PAST SIMPLE?
The grammatically correct way to say the sentence:
"Normally I sleeping in but today I waking up early."
What is "Normally I sleep in, but today I am waking up early."
This verb would be used to describe an upcoming event that is definitely planned. (ie. restaurant reservation, concert tickets purchased)
What is GOING TO?
This is the name for a coat with no sleeves.
What is a CLOAK?
This tense describes an action in progress when an event happened in the past.
What is the PAST CONTINUOUS?
Verbs such as "want", "think", "love", and "need" will usually only be used in this present tense.
What is the PRESENT SIMPLE?
This verb is used in sentences that describe rules that we know to be true.
Example: "If you go outside when it is raining, you ________ get wet"
What is GOING TO?
What is COPPER?
The correct past tenses for the sentence:
"Suddenly, while Nick ________ (teach), a piece of paper ________ (fly) past him and _______ (land) on his chair."
What is WAS TEACHING, FLEW, LANDED?
This type of verb is rarely used in the present continuous, because it does not describe an activity.
The completed dialogue:
A: "Would you like to go to a movie on Saturday?"
B: "Sure! I _______ meet you in the square at 2:00"
A: "Maybe Jim ______ come with us too"
B: "Good idea, I ______ text him now"
What is WILL, WILL, WILL?
Otzi lived in this time period, named after the very basic tools used at the time, mainly made from rocks.
While casually it might be said in a few different ways, this is technically the grammatically correct past tense of "lie down".
What is LAY DOWN?