The document summarizes English verb tenses and aspects, including:
- Simple, continuous, and perfect forms of tenses in the past, present, and future.
- Finite and non-finite verbs such as participles and infinitives.
- Passive voice construction using forms of "to be" plus the past participle.
- Types of conditional sentences including real, unreal, and mixed conditions.
The document summarizes English verb tenses and aspects, including:
- Simple, continuous, and perfect forms of tenses in the past, present, and future.
- Finite and non-finite verbs such as participles and infinitives.
- Passive voice construction using forms of "to be" plus the past participle.
- Types of conditional sentences including real, unreal, and mixed conditions.
The document summarizes English verb tenses and aspects, including:
- Simple, continuous, and perfect forms of tenses in the past, present, and future.
- Finite and non-finite verbs such as participles and infinitives.
- Passive voice construction using forms of "to be" plus the past participle.
- Types of conditional sentences including real, unreal, and mixed conditions.
The document summarizes English verb tenses and aspects, including:
- Simple, continuous, and perfect forms of tenses in the past, present, and future.
- Finite and non-finite verbs such as participles and infinitives.
- Passive voice construction using forms of "to be" plus the past participle.
- Types of conditional sentences including real, unreal, and mixed conditions.
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ASPECT TENSE
PAST PRESENT FUTURE
SIMPLE VB + -ed VB ‘s’ 3rd s.p. WILL + VB HAD HAS/ HAVE I will look I looked WAS/WERE I look/ she looks CONTINUOUS WAS/WERE + -ing AM/ARE/IS + -ing WILL BE + -ing I was looking (…when) I am looking I will be looking PERFECT SIMPLE HAD + past participle (-ed) HAS/HAVE + past participle (-ed) WILL HAVE + past participle (-ed) I had looked I have looked I will have looked PERFECT HAD BEEN + present participle (-ing) HAS/HAVE BEEN + present WILL HAVE BEEN + present CONTINUOUS I had been looking participle (-ing) participle (-ing) I have been looking I will have been looking Present simple Present continuous To be going to (intentional future) To be expected to To be about to To be to… FINITE VERBS / ACTIVE VOICE
NON FINITE VERBS
PERFECT PARTICIPLE PAST PARTICIPLE PRESENT PARTICIPLE PARTICIPLES HAVING + past participle (-ed) VB + -ed VB + -ing Having said that… Looked Looking (adj) tired (adj) tiring INFINITIVES BARE INFINITIVE TO INFINITIVE CONTINUOUS PERFECT INFINITIVE look To look INFINITIVE To have looked To be looking PERFECT CONTINOUS INFINITIVE To have been looking
[Thing receiving action > SUBJECT] + [TO BE] + [PAST PARTICIPLE of verb] + [by] + [thing doing action > AGENT] Once a week, the house is cleaned by Tom. PASSIVE VOICE
CONDITIONALS REAL 0 TYPE 1 TYPE: future real conditional PAST REAL CONDITIONAL If + present S/C + present If + pres + WILL VB If + simple past + simple past If it rains heavily our river floods If you run you’ll catch the train When/if I had a day off I often went to the beach UNREAL 2 TYPE 3 TYPE If + simple past + WOULD INF If+ past perfect + WOULD HAVE If I were you, I would stay in + past participle If I had studied more, I would have passed my exam
MIXED 2 TYPE + 3 TYPE 3 TYPE + 2 TYPE
If + simple past + WOULD If + past perfect + WOULD INF HAVE + past participle If the activists hadn’t intervened, If the pro-forest organisation the Amazon would be much didn’t exist, more of the Amazon smaller forest would have disappeared
