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English VI, Present, Past, Future - Coggle Diagram
English VI
Gerunds and Participles
Rules
If it functions as verb means the action is realizing.
It may be a gerund or a present participle when a verb ends in -ing.
It is important to understand that they are not the same.
we use a verb in -ing form more like a verb or an adjective.
A participle is a verbal that is used as an adjective and most often ends in -ing.
The verb base + -ing formed gerunds
Comparing Gerunds and Participles
the use of a gerund (functioning as a noun) allows the meaning to be expressed more precisely than in the second. In the first sentence the interrupting itself, a specific behavior, is precisely indicated as the cause of the speaker's irritation
Impersonal it / Impersonal there
sentences where there is no natural or direct subject
the subject is replaced by there or it
When to use it
Talking about weather
Identifying something
Talking about time
Talking about distance
Impersonal "there" is used to say that something exists in a particular place
Infinitives
Infinitives are defined as to + base form of the verb.
Used as objects following certain verbs.
Used as a shortened form of in order to.
Present
Plural
There are
Its contraction is there're.
The negative form is formed by there are + no.
Singular
There is
Its contraction is there’s.
The negative form is formed by there is + no.
Question has the following structure.
Verb be + there + subject + predicate?
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There is/There are
Past
Plural
There were
Its contraction is there're.
The negative form is formed by there were + no.
Singular
There was
Its contraction is there’s.
The negative form is formed by there was + no.
Question has the following structure.
Verb be + there + subject + predicate?
.
Future
Question has the following structure
Will be …there?
Plural and Singular
there will be
negative the correct form is “there won’t be”
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