Verb Practice: Past Present Future

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What are the three main tenses in English?

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Past, Present, Future.

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What is the definition of a verb?

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A verb is an action word that describes what a subject does.

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Identify the tense: 'She wondered how her college degree would help her career.'

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Past.

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Identify the tense: 'The government will be monitoring the phones in the lab.'

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Future.

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Identify the verb in the sentence: 'By Thursday, my brother will have apologized for his mistake.'

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will have apologized.

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Identify the tense: 'The worker is hammering, and her foreman is watching lazily.'

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Present.

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What is the present continuous tense?

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It describes actions that are currently happening, formed with 'is/am/are' + verb-ing.

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What is the past simple tense?

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It describes actions that have already happened, typically formed by adding -ed to regular verbs.

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What is the future simple tense?

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It describes actions that will happen in the future, typically formed with 'will' + base form of the verb.

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Give an example of a verb in the present tense.

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Examples include: run, eat, play.