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This lesson was requested by khoukha and is a quick review of how we use the present perfect and the past simple.
We use this tense for things that happened at a definite time in the past.
E.g. "I met my best friend when I was fifteen."
It is formed by adding '-ed' to regular verbs.
Dear Friends,
I would like to know how to use if at all.
Please explain me with an example.
Or
I have given you an example please let me know is it correct.
"If at all the ball touches the bat deffinetely it would be 4"
Please tell me wether it is correct r not.
Anirudd
I thought I'd write another letter to you guys to get you practising your grammar. This is quite a difficult lesson. There are some verbs missing in the text. Can you put them in the correct tense? I’d love to hear back from you all.
Me and my friend Philippa at Thorpe Park, feeling frightened!
Personal pronouns are the words we use when it is clear who, or what, is being talked about. For example:
"Caroline is going to America tomorrow, she is so excited!"
In this case the personal pronoun is 'she' and refers to Caroline.
The personal pronouns for people are:
Some nouns are followed by specific prepositions. For example the noun relationship is always followed by with.
E.g. "She has a really good relationship with her mother."
In the following sentences, can you decide which preposition we need to use? Good luck!
Lesson by Caroline
Today we have a multiple-choice quiz for you to try. Decide which is the correct verb to use in each sentence.
Try this verb tense review if you want for English practice.
How many questions did you get right?
Auxiliary verbs are the verbs which help the main verb and give extra meaning to it. For example:
"I have studied English for three years."
The auxiliary verb have changes the tense of the sentence to present perfect, so we know the activity is ongoing.
"I studied English for three years."
These two tenses are both used to talk about things that happened in the past. However we use past perfect to talk about something that happened before another action in the past, which is usually expressed by the past simple.
For example:
"I had already eaten my dinner when he called."
In other words, First I ate my dinner, then he called.
The past perfect is often used with already, yet, just and even.
