Posted by admin on Jun 30, 2010 in
English Editing This tense is formed by had been followed by the Present Participle:
She had been writing.
Uses:
To refer to an action that continued over a period in the past:
He had been studying hard for some hours.
To refer to a continuing action in the past contrasted with a single completed action in the past:
Timothy Harris, 33, had been working in Ilfracombe, Devon, when he met his girlfriend Faye Whitehead.
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Posted by admin on Jun 29, 2010 in
English Editing In regular verbs it is the same as the past tense form and is made by adding -ed to the verb stem (or just -d if the verb ends with the letter -e). In Irregular verbs it is formed in different ways.
The past participle is used to form a number of tenses:
Present Perfect: I have smiled.
Past Perfect: I had smiled.
Future Perfect: I shall have smiled.
It is also used to form past tense with Modal Auxiliaries (I might have smiled, I should have smiled, etc.).
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Posted by admin on Jun 28, 2010 in
English Editing This tense is formed by was or were followed by the Present Participle of the main verb:
He was writing.
Uses:
To show how one event occurred during another event:
While they were talking, they heard a terrific roar.
To refer to a completed event that went on over a period of time:
I was working there in 1933.
This tense is sometimes referred to as the ‘imperfect’ tense.
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Posted by admin on Jun 26, 2010 in
English Editing Transitive verbs can be used in two different ways, called voices: active and passive.
Active: A vicious Rottweiler dog attacked them.
Passive: They were attacked by a vicious Rottweiler dog.
In the passive voice it is as if the object of the sentence gets a voice of its own and can describe an event from its own point of view.
This applies even if the original subject is inanimate:
Active: A big wave hit the side of the paddle wheel.
Passive: The side of the paddle wheel was hit by a big wave.
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Posted by admin on Jun 24, 2010 in
English Editing A Modal Auxiliary Verb used to refer to possible, rather than actual, events. It expresses a view about how desirable an action might be and is normally followed by the Infinitive of the main verb:
You ought to go and see a doctor.
It can also stand alone:
No, I ought not.
Negative:
The negative form of verb phrases containing ought is formed simply by adding not: you ought not to go and see the doctor. It is not standard English to use didn’t ought to.
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