These x-words can show something temporary (e.g., something in process), when they match with a certain verb form.
What is the -ing form?
100
These are 2 NOW x-words from the DO family.
What are DO and DOES?
100
This is the basic sentence pattern: SVO.
Example: I like this game.
What is a trunk?
100
Fresh food is healthier than canned food.
What is fresh food?
100
I can't go last night.
What is I couldn't go last night?
200
These x-word families ALWAYS match with the base form of verbs.
What are the DO families and the MODALS?
200
These are 2 NOW x-words from the HAVE family.
What are HAVE and HAS?
200
You put 2 basic sentence patterns together to get this.
Example: My team is helping me and I'm helping them.
What is Trunk plus Trunk?
200
The standard American diet has been criticized for not having enough fruit and vegetables. The subject is:
What is the standard American diet?
200
They don't can remember.
What is they can't remember?
300
These x-words ALWAYS match with the past participle.
What is the HAVE family?
300
These are 3 NOW x-words from the BE family.
What are AM, IS and ARE?
300
This makes sentences more efficient, by using 1 subject and 2 or more verbs related to the same subject.
We're reading and thinking.
What is T equals? (T=)
300
Some people would be surprised to learn that frozen vegetables can actually be more nutritious than fresh vegetables that aren't really as fresh as you think.
What is some people?
300
People always has trouble with this.
What is people always have trouble with this?
400
This negative contraction looks different from its x-word.
What is won't?
400
Not including the modals, these are the 4 BEFORE x-words.
What DID, HAD, WAS and WERE?
400
This pattern connects ideas from 1 sentence to another.
Example Obviously, some of you already know this.
What is linker plus trunk? (LT)
400
Discussing his new book, Food Rules, Michael Pollan repeated the need to use meat as a flavoring rather than the focus of a meal.
What is Michael Pollan?
400
In that moment he was decided to build a windmill.
What is in that moment he decided to build a windmill?
500
This x-word family can match with the -ing form or the past participle or it can be just a main verb all by itself.
What is the BE family?
500
These x-words connect the past to the present when they go with the past participle.
What are HAVE and HAS?
500
These 2 patterns are very similar to each other. They do the same thing, in reverse!
When we have examples, it's easier.
What are shifters? (Front shifters - FT - and End shifters - TE.)
500
One of the rules for eating in a healthier way is to avoid any food that your grandparents wouldn't recognize as food.
What is one of the rules for eating in a healthier way?