Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
Singular
Subject
Singular
Verb
Plural
Verb
Singular: girl
Plural: girls
Singular: he talks
Plural: they talk
I walk
You walk
He/She/It walk s
Joe walk s
The girl walk s
Plural
We walk
You walk
They walk
Plural
They do
HAVE
She has
They have
BE
He is
She was
They are
They were
No S on
subject
-S on
verb
-S on
subject
Example
The boy and the girl dance.
(= They dance.)
No S on
verb
Possible Pitfalls
Sometimes, several words come between
the subject and the verb.
Prepositional phrases
The subject can never be part of a
prepositional phrase.
Example
The students in my class study / studies
X
hard.
Possible Pitfalls
Sometimes, the subject will come after
the verb, in questions or when sentence
begins with there.
Examples
Why is he falling asleep?
Why are they falling asleep?
There is no excuse for such behavior.
There are no excuses for such behavior.
Possible Pitfalls
Relative Pronouns (who/which/that) can be
either singular or plural, depending on
the word they refer to.
Verb Forms
Sample Item
Thomas sang
sang along
along until
until the
the CD
CD ended;
ended; then
then as
as
A
he was choosing
choosingaanew
newdisk,
disk,he
helost
lostcontrol
controlofof
B
the car and drived
drivedinto
drove
intoaaditch.
ditch.
C
A.sung
B.chosing
C.drove
D.No change is necessary.
Infinitive
to laugh
to start
to travel
Simple
Present
laugh(s)
start(s)
travel(s)
Simple
Past
laughed
started
traveled
Or to fish,
fish(es), fished,
fished, fishing!
Past
Participle
laughed
started
traveled
Present
Participle
laughing
starting
traveling
Simple
Present
drive(s)
think(s)
drink(s)
swim(s)
Present
Participle
driving
thinking
drinking
swimming
before!
Tenses : Timeline
Draw a timeline of your life. List 8-10 events
on the time line.
Make sure you list your future graduation date!
Was Born
1978
Traveled
to Europe
School
@ Oxford
1999
Started
School 1983
Moved to
Cali 2005
Husband
graduates
Got married
2008
25
Simple continuous
Perfect continuous
it hit
had eaten
my friend stopped by
Formed by adding
has/have before the verb
and ed to the REGULAR
verb
Formed by adding
has/have + be
verb(been) before the
verb and ing to the verb
The Future
Will and be + going + to are often used to
describe future actions.
The Future
The simple present and present continuous
are also used to express future time. These
are often used used in connection with
schedules.
at 10 a.m. tomorrow
by the time you arrive
class ends
Emphasizes the 2. President John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in
1963.
president
The
meals
The books
race
are
have
was been
cooked
illustrated
won
(by
(by the
the chef)
artists)
runner)
Exercise 6, pg 226
1. The
(bynumber.
the
Thewrong
childnumber
dialed was
thedialed
wrong
child).
2. My
The grandmother
sweater was crocheted
very carefully
very carefully
(by my grandmother).
crocheted
the sweater.
3. Cherry
The tornado
struck
Cherry
Creek
Creek
was
struck
bylast
a
spring. last year.
tornado
4. The
The wind
blewwere
the leaves
across
the yard.
leaves
blown
across
the
5. yard
In the (by
seventies,
platform shoes were
the wind).
worn
byseventies,
many fashionable
young
men
In
the
many
fashionable
and women).
young
men and women wore
platform shoes.
Can/could; will/would
Could as the past tense of can
Would as the past tense of will.