Verb To Be Question Form Verb to be question form structure is similar to other verbs, but you don’t need to add an extra helping verb. As you know from doing the Verb To Be standard form, it’s an irregular verb and it has eight different conjugations: be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been. A bit like one of the X-Men! … Read more
Future Perfect Continuous The Future Perfect Continuous tense is used to describe a continuous action that will be ongoing at a specific time in the future. It’s used with another clause which will include a verb or a prepositional phrase. To form the Future Perfect Continuous tense, we use the auxiliary verbs will have been … Read more
Future Perfect The Future Perfect tense is used to express an action or state that will finish sometime in the future before another event in the future. It is formed by using the auxiliary verb will followed by the verb have and the past participle of the main verb. The verb form of the Future Perfect tense: … Read more
Future Continuous The Future Continuous tense is used to describe an action or event that will be in progress at a specific point in the future. It is formed by using the auxiliary verb will along with verb to be bare infinitive (be) a main verb in present participle (verb-ing). The basic verb form of … Read more
Future Simple Tense The Future Simple tense, also known as the Simple Future, is used to describe actions or events that will happen in the future. This tense is commonly used in everyday conversation, as well as in written and spoken communication. The verb form of a Future Simple sentence, use the auxiliary verb will … Read more
Past Perfect Continuous Tense Past Perfect Continuous is used in a similar way to Past Perfect tense, but we use it to put more emphasis on the length of time the action was happening for. To form the Past Perfect Continuous, we use Verb To Have (had) followed by Verb To Be (been), and the … Read more
Conditionals in English Language Conditionals in English are a type of sentence structure that express either a fact or an imaginary situation and its possible outcome. They are formed by using the conjunction “if” to introduce the condition and a verb in the appropriate tense to describe the potential result. There are four main types … Read more
Past Perfect Tense We use a Past Perfect tense when we want to say an action finished before another action. To form the Past Perfect we need the auxiliary Verb To Have (past tense) and a main verb (past participle). This is usually verbs ending in ed, unless it’s an irregular verb: Regular verbs: had … Read more
Past Continuous The Past Continuous tense, also known as the past progressive, is used to describe an action that was in progress for a relatively long period of time in the past. It is formed by using past tense of Verb To Be as an auxiliary: was/were, followed by the present participle (-ing) for the … Read more
Present Perfect Continuous Tense The Present Perfect Continuous tense is used to describe an action that started in the past and is still ongoing, or has just recently stopped. It is used in many similar ways to Present Perfect, but Present Perfect Continuous is used to express when the action has gone on for a … Read more
Present Perfect Tense The Present Perfect tense is used in a few slightly different ways. These include actions or events that started in the past and continue to the present, actions that have recently finished but have an effect on the present. It is formed using the present tense of the auxiliary verb have followed … Read more
Present Continuous Affirmative Present Continuous tense, also known as Present Progressive is used to talk about what we are doing. It uses the Verb To Be (present tense) as an auxiliary verb and also the Main Verb in Present Participle (verb-ing) form: Subject + am/is/are + verb-ing… Mostly, when we speak in Present Continuous form, … Read more
Verb To Be Negative The Verb To Be is different to other verbs because it doesn’t need an auxiliary verb to make it negative. It’s an irregular verb and it has eight different forms: be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been. Verb To Be is used as a main verb to explain a state or condition, and as this is negative … Read more
Regular and Irregular Verbs There are two types of verbs: Regular and Irregular, and it’s important to know them for speaking in past tenses. Regular verbs we just add ed on the end when speaking in the past, and these make up about 95% of all verbs in the English language Irregular Verbs are different, … Read more
Past Simple Tense The Past Simple Tense is one of the most commonly used in the English language. We use it to talk about an action that has happened, and has definitely finished. We can also use it to talk about a past state that might still be happening. For past actions a time reference … Read more
Irregular Verbs Irregular verbs are the tricky ones. Luckily, it’s only about 5 percent of verbs, but the problem is they are some of the most commonly used verbs. Regular verbs are easy, we just add -ed on the end. However, irregular verbs can change a bit, change completely, and sme don’t even change at … Read more
Present Simple Affirmative The Present Simple Tense is one of the most commonly used in the English language. For affirmative + uses, we add the bare infinitive (verb without to), and for 3rd person we put an s on the end. Except the verb to be which forms as: am, is, are. On this page … Read more
Verb To Be Welcome to the world of English grammar, and our golden topic, the Verb To Be. It’s an irregular verb and conjugates into eight different forms: be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been. A bit like one of the X-Men! The Verb To Be is one of the most important and commonly used verbs in English. It changes form … Read more