12 Change the following sentence into 10 different tenses. The ESL Club meets every semester. PRESENT
The ESL Club meets every semester.
The ESL Club is meeting every semester. The ESL Club has met every semester. The ESL Club has been meeting every semester. PAST
The ESL Club met every semester.
The ESL Club was meeting every semester. The ESL Club had met every semester. The ESL Club had been meeting every semester. FUTURE
The ESL Club will meet every semester.
The ESL Club is going to meet every semester.
The ESL Club will be meeting every semester.
The ESL Club is going to be meeting every semester. *WE WONT BE STUDYING FUTURE PERFECT *The ESL Club will have met every semester. *The ESL Club is going to have met every semester.
*The ESL Club will have been meeting every semester.
*The ESL Club is going to have been meeting every semester. PASSIONS CHAPTER 1
Present and Past:
Perfect and Perfect Progressive WHAT DOES PERFECT MEAN?
Perfect means prior, so you are
looking at two events: the before and the after.
(See Canvas; click on Tenses; click on
class notes; click on attached file Simple, Progressive, Perfect-- explanation of uses.pdf) CH. 1 LESSON 1: PRESENT PERFECT
For the present perfect, what two events
are you looking at? one event in the past the past event connected to the present
PAST X___PAST_______NOW-- EVENT #1 #2 VERB FORM OF PERFECT
The complete verb phrase has two parts.
Auxiliary (Helping) Verb + Main Verb
HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE (-ED)
(have, has, had)
See Appendix 5 page 282 for irregular past
participle forms 2.1 PRESENT PERFECT--AN EVENT THAT HAPPENED AT AN INDEFINITE TIME IN THE PAST. 1. Cuauhtemoc _______ (take) guitar lessons. 2. She ___________ (change) her hair style. 3. Mitch _______ (have) problems at work. 4. Starbucks ________ (decide) to close some stores. 5. Some ________ (not know) about the repairs. PRESENT PERFECTINDEFINITE TIME
1. Cuauhtemoc has taken guitar
lessons. 2. She has changed her hair style. 3. Mitch has had problems at work. 4. Starbucks has decided to close some stores. 5. Some have not known about the repairs. 2.2 PRESENT PERFECT WITH FOR/SINCE
I _____(teach) at IVC since the spring of 2000.
What does since mean? to show when a present condition started What are the two events? teaching at IVC spring of 2000 What is the action in the past? teaching at IVC in the spring of 2000 What is the action in the present? teaching at IVC in the spring of 2017 2.2 SINCE + A SPECIFIC PAST TIME
1. I _______(live) in the U.S. since the
spring of 2000. 2. It _____(be) 3 days since my cat put a dead lizard in my bed. 3. Nestles ____(bottle) water from a spring in California since 1990. 4. A US Geological survey _____ (show) lower water levels since 2005. PRESENT PERFECT WITH SINCE 1. I have lived in the U.S. since the spring of 2000. 2. It has been 3 days since my cat put a dead lizard in my bed. 3. Nestles has bottled water from a spring in California since 1990. 4. A US Geological survey has shown lower water levels in wells since 2005. 2.2 PRESENT PERFECT WITH FOR What does for mean? an amount of time 1. For years, I __________ (grow) tomatoes in my backyard. 2. China ______ (sell) frozen meat from the 1970s for awhile. 3. Researchers at University of CA at Berkeley _____(worked) on a robot that is shaped like a cockroach for 26 weeks. 4. Netflix _____(be) successful for over 15 years. PRESENT PERFECT FOR
1. For years, I have grown tomatoes in my
backyard. 2. China has sold frozen meat from the 1970s for awhile. 3. Researchers at University of CA at Berkeley have worked on a robot that is shaped like a cockroach for 26 weeks. 4. Netflix has been successful for over 15 years. 2.3 PRESENT PERFECT OR SIMPLE PAST
Time expressions in a sentence will
help you decide which tense to use. 1. My dad and his friends ____(go) on a fishing trip last week. 2. My dad and his friends ____(go) on fishing trips since they met. 3. They _____(decide) to go to Rosarito yesterday. 4. They _____(decide) to go to Rosarito. 2.3 PRESENT PERFECT OR SIMPLE PAST
Time expressions in a sentence will
help you decide which tense to use. 1. My dad and his friends went on a fishing trip last week. 2. My dad and his friends have gone on fishing trips since they met. 3. They decided to go to Rosarito yesterday. 4. They have decided to go to Rosarito. PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE CHAPTER 1 LESSON 2 WHAT DOES PERFECT MEAN?
Perfect means prior (before)
What does progressive mean? ongoing actions; action in progress; continuous action In grammar, progressive and continuous are synonyms. VERB FORM OF PERFECT/PROGRESSIVE
This is a combination of two tenses.
The verb forms must show both tenses. PERFECT = HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE (-ED) PROGRESSIVE = BE + PRESENT PARTICIPLE (-ING) COMBINATION OF THE TWO HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE OF BE + PRESENT PARTICIPLE HAVE/HAS + BEEN + BASE-ING
been have helping PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
Actions that started in the past and are
connected to the present. These actions are not completed. These puppies have been growing . (have been) = perfect (been growing) = progressive