Tuesday, August 7, 2012

You will enjoy messing with verb conjugation. Maybe

 I don't know about you but as a native English speaker I don't pay that much attention to conjugating verbs. Maybe I should now that I blog.  

Kenneth Beare does a great job explaining and supporting such things as verb conjugation on his website, http://esl.about.com/b/2012/05/16/verb-conjugation.htm?nl=1 This is just one of the many lessons that are great support to ESL and mainstream classroom teachers. 

I have copied a very helpful chart from this lesson on verbs just to give you an example of what you will find when you explore his work.

Verb Conjugation Grid


Simple Tenses Simple Tense Example Progressive Tenses Progressive Tense Example Perfect Tenses Perfect Tense Example Perfect Progressive Tenses Perfect Progressive Tense Example
Present Present Simple Jack usually takes a bus to work. Present Progressive Alice is writing her report at the moment. Present Perfect Bob has purchased three cars in his life. Present Perfect Progressive The students have been writing for twenty minutes.
Past Past Simple We drove to Yellowstone last Past Progressive Daniel was ironing at seven o'clock. Past Perfect They had completed the report by the time he requested to see it. Past Perfect Progressive My neighbors had been working outside for a few hours when their daughter telephoned with the news.
Future Future Simple I'll see you tomorrow afternoon. Future Progressive Tom will be making his presentation this time next week. Future Perfect We'll have the job finished by six o'clock. Future Perfect Progressive Mr. Jones will have been teaching for eight hour straight by the time he finishes.

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