4819099513 | Simple present | Tense used to express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes. Example: I work in London. | 0 | |
4819099514 | Present progressive | Tense that indicates continuing action, something going on now. Example: You are taking a long time. | 1 | |
4819099515 | Future progressive | Tense that indicates continuing action, something that will be happening, going on, at some point in the future. Example: I will be running in the college race next year. | 2 | |
4819099516 | Future perfect | Used to describe what will have happened in the future before a different action takes place, or by a specific time. Example: I will have built my house by 2017. | 3 | |
4819099517 | Present perfect | Used to describe "actions that happened in the past and continue in the present" or "recently completed actions that affect the present" or "actions or events that happened at an unspecified time in the past" (Cain 4). Example: "I have finished eating lunch just now, so I would love to go to the park with you." | 4 | |
4819099518 | Present perfect progressive | Used to "describe or write about actions that began in the past and continue to the present" and to "emphasize the duration of actions that began in the past and continue to the present" (Cain 4). Example: "I have been walking dogs since I was fourteen." | 5 | |
4819099519 | Simple past | used to talk about events that happened previously at one point or habitually (Cain 6). Example: "I went to the zoo to see a zebra, but I did not get in because there was a flood." | 6 | |
4819099520 | Past progressive | Describes actions that were going on sometime previously, something that was happening but was interrupted, or multiple happenings that are occurring together (Cain 6). Example: "While I was studying math, a lizard crawled on to the table and ate my homework" (Cain 6). | 7 | |
4819099521 | Past perfect | "Used to describe or write about a past action or event that happened or existed before another past action or time" (Cain 6). Example: "They had had too much supper before the play, so they all had fallen asleep by the time I entered the stage." | 8 | |
4819099522 | Past perfect progressive | Refers to something that had been continually going on before another event (Cain 6) Example: "Before the flood, I had been dancing at a Martin Luther King Jr. party." | 9 | |
4819099523 | Future tense | Refers to an action or event after now. Example: "I will arise now and go to Innisfree." | 10 | |
4819104293 | Future perfect progressive | Rarely used. Used to refer to something that will be continually going on at a future point. Example: "I will have been going to Starbucks for ten years next month." | 11 | |
4821159962 | be going to | Form used to talk about events in the future but that is conjugated in the present tense. | 12 | |
5137469667 | Count Nouns | a noun that can form a plural and, in the singular, can be used with the indefinite article (e.g., books, a book ). | 13 | |
5137469668 | Nouns | a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things common noun, or to name a particular one of these proper noun. | 14 | |
5137469669 | Uncountable nouns | are substances, concepts etc that we cannot divide into separate elements. We cannot "count" them. For example, we cannot count "milk". We can count "bottles of milk" or "litres of milk", but we cannot count "milk" itself. | 15 |
Grammar 1 English Tenses Flashcards
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