Present
It expresses ongoing events (simple or progressive?)
What is present progressive
Expresses finished, punctual actions.
What is the simple past
This pure modal expresses ability.
What is can?
I thought i knew myself well.
I
What is tricky about the grammar of simple present?
The third person singular takes an S
It expresses general truths
What is present simple
Expresses ongoing actions in the past that are finished.
What is simple past?
This pure modal expresses prohibition.
What is mustn't or must not (can't is also acceptable)
I know greek and a bit of italian.
Greek and Italian take capital letters because they are languages.
What is wrong with this sentence:
Did you found your cell phone?
Did you find your cell phone (do is now in the simple past, so our main verb goes to the base form)
We can use the word USUALLY in this aspect (simple or progressive).
What is present simple?
Correct this sentence: Did you waiting for your brother yesterday at the park?
What is: Were you waiting for your brother last night in the park?
Say a sentence using a pure modal that expresses past ability
What is a logical sentence with the pure modal COULD
What is the correct spelling of tho
What is though
What is wrong with this sentence and why?
Tell him he can't walks there! It's covered in broken glass!
Tell him he can't walk there.
The presence of the modal makes the main verb go back to its base form.
Charles ______ (to like) okra but Sadiya _______ (not like) it.
What is likes and doesn't like.
Correct this sentence: The story was started in an 18th Century in a farmhouse.
What is: The story started in an 18th Century Farmhouse.
Say a sentence with a pure modal that makes a polite request.
What is a sentence with Would, Could, Might or May at the front.
Change these words into academically acceptable words for school texts: gonna and wanna
Going to and want to (unless it is dialogue)
Which modal doesn't contract with not?
May (you can't say mayn't)
What is the difference between a question using the verb to be and a question using any other verb?
For the questions using to be, the subject and verb get inverted. For any other verb, we need to borrow the auxiliary DO and then the rest of the sentence (subject and main verb do not invert).
Correct this sentence: Last year I was buying my first gaming console!
What is: Last year I bought my first gaming console!
If we use a modal, what happens to the verb?
It goes back to the base form.
Capitalize this!
Ms. Goudreau and her swedish husband karl like Rupaul's drag race, so they went to see a live event at the metropolis.
Swedish, Karl, Drag Race, Metropolis (she likes Drag Race but her husband is neither Swedish nor is called Karl)
Just for fun, express a new year's resolution that follows the grammar rules for written resolutions but is completely unrealistic.
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