Right Form of Verbs

Right Form of Verbs
• RULE 1: Singular Subject = Singular Verb, Plural Subject = Plural verb

Examples: Shahin is a meritorious student.
Vehicles create traffic jam.
• RULE 2: Preposition: (in, at, on, of, for, from, by, with, without, before, after, into, across, about )
+ noun or Verb + ing.
Examples: Television is an important source of entertainment or entertaining.
Children are fond of using mobile Phone.
• RULE 3: To + Verb1 but (Addicted to, Adverse to, Be used to, With a view to, Look forward to,
Get used to, Be accustomed to) + Verb + ing.
Examples: Shimu went to London to get a good job.
Shamim tried to join the Navy.
• RULE 4: (Can, could, may, might, Shall, should, will, would, must used to, have to, need, dare, ought to)
+ V1
Examples: He can do the Sum.
It may rain today.
Tamim must study tonight.
• RULE 5: While + Verb + ing

Examples: While walking in the garden, I saw a snake.
While sleeping, I dreamt a good dream.
• RULE 6: (have, has, had, get, got, getting, having ) + V3 or Adjective.

Examples: She got married yesterday.
I had my car cleaned.
Having taken the money, the thief ran away.
Our Culture is getting westernized.
• RULE 7 : Passive Voice : (Can be, could be, may be , might be, Shall be, should be, will be,
would be, must be, used to be, have to be, ought to be ) + V3
Examples: The work ought to be done.
He will be helped by me.
• RULE 8: (Each, every , one, any) + one or more singular Sub. + Singular Verb.
Examples: Each boy and each girl was present there.
Every boy and girl has been given 100 tk.
• RULE 9: ( Population, public, crowd, army, congress, committee, team, government,

family, pair, dozen, scenery, knowledge, hundred, thousand, furniture, machinery,
information, bread, money, advice, poetry, gallows, ethics, mathematics, physics, news,
electronics, dynamics, 2/3….dollars, 2/3….miles, ) + singular verb.
Examples: Ill news runs a pace .
Physics is a critical subject.
• RULE 10: (People, spectacles, trousers, scissors, benches, cloths, goods, headquarters, vegetables,
laws, police, cattle, folk, circumstances, gentry.) + Plural verb.
Examples: His circumstances are not good.
People don’t eat the same food.
Vegetables contain vitamin.
• RULE 11: (who, whose, whom, which, that) follow only their before subject to choose a verb.
Examples: It is I who am your friend.
It is you who are my friend.
• RULE 12: Prefer to + verb + ing

Examples: Lata prefers to reading newspaper.
Joynal prefers to eating betel.
• RULE 13: (Feel, love, hear, like, hate, see, forget, consist, seem, sound, smell, believe, know,
wish, doubt, prefer, imagine, fear, taste, astonish, please, understand) they are used in present
Indefinite tense not in continuous tense.
Examples: I see the bird.
I hear news.
I forget everything.
• RULE 14: Distance/money/time + singular verb

Examples: Thirty miles is a long way.
100 years is a long time.
Money begets money.
• RULE 15: (mind/worth/without/get used to/got used to/ be used to/past, can help, couldn’t help,
would you mind) + verb + ing
Examples: Would you mind having a cup of tea?
He can’t help smoking.
• RULE 16: (had better, had rather, would better, would rather, let, must, need, dare, make, would
sooner, had sooner) + verb1
Examples: He had better read newspaper regularly.
I will not let you enter the classroom.
• RULE 17: ( It is time, It is high time, wish, fancy) = Past Indefinite

Examples: I fancy I turned a pale.
It is high time we developed our country.
• RULE 18: Lest…. Should…
Examples: Walk fast lest you should miss the train.
Read attentively lest you should fail in the exam.
• RULE 19: Present Indefinite or Present perfect tense + since + Past Indefinite tense.
Examples: It is many years since I came to Dhaka.
Many years have passed since I met her.
• RULE 20: Past Indefinite tense + since + Past perfect tense.

Example: Many years passed since I had seen her last.
• RULE 21: Past Perfect + before + past Indefinite.
Past Indefinite + after + past perfect
Examples: The patient had died before the doctor came.
The patient died after the doctor had come.
• RULE 22: Uncountable noun (water, air, tea, sugar, environment, furniture, kindness, rainfall,
reputation, wood, paper, gum, courtesy, earth, bread, oxygen, smoke, Bangla, English.) + Singular
verb.
Examples: Air is very important element of the environment.
Water plays a vital role in agriculture.
• RULE 23: Arithmetical Operations (singular verb)

Examples: Five plus five is ten.
Ten minus five is five.
Ten divided by two is five.
• RULE 24: (Always, regularly, generally, usually, occasionally, normally, naturally, frequently,
everyday, daily, often) = Present Indefinite Tense.
Examples: Organizations frequently need employees who speak a standard form of English.
English usually helps to get good job.
He always prays his prayer.
• RULE 25: (now, at this/the moment, at present, day by day, increasingly, rapidly.) = Present
continuous Tense.
Examples: Mobile Phone users are increasing day by day.
He is eating now.
• RULE 26: (yesterday, one day, ago, once, last, after a few days, last night, once upon a time,
in the past, previously.) = Past Indefinite Tense.
Examples: I received your letter yesterday.
One day I borrowed a book from you.
• RULE 27: (Just, just now, already, yet, ever, lately, recently, immediately.) = present Perfect Tense.
Examples: He has transferred from Dhaka recently.
We have shifted to safe place immediately.
• RULE 28: No sooner had….than

Scarcely had…..when,
hardly had…before/when.
Example: No sooner had he seen the police than he ran away
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• RULE 1: Singular Subject = Singular Verb, Plural Subject = Plural verb

• RULE 5: While + Verb + ing

• RULE 6: (have, has, had, get, got, getting, having ) + V3 or Adjective.

• RULE 9: ( Population, public, crowd, army, congress, committee, team, government,

• RULE 12: Prefer to + verb + ing

• RULE 14: Distance/money/time + singular verb

• RULE 17: ( It is time, It is high time, wish, fancy) = Past Indefinite

• RULE 20: Past Indefinite tense + since + Past perfect tense.

• RULE 23: Arithmetical Operations (singular verb)

• RULE 28: No sooner had….than

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