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Tenses and verb agreement - Coggle Diagram
Tenses and verb agreement
Your use of verbs and tenses should be consistent.
While tenses can and do chenge in texts, there are conventions that you must follow to avoid confusion.
You must ensure that your subject agrees with the main verb. A singular subject must have a singular verb form.
For example:
The teacher shouts loudly.
This applies even when the action is in the past.
For example:
He was shouting loudly NOT He were shouting loudly.
Sentence punctuation
You have already learned how sentences always start with a capital letter and end with a full stop, exclamation mark or a question mark, However, you must use the full range of punctuation to write effectively.
Commas
The comma splice
Apostrophes
Accurate sentences
In all your writing, you need to use a range of sentences appropiate to the situation or audience you are writing for.
Declarative
Exclamatory
Interrogative
Imperative
The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that is doing the action or feeling the emotion. The verb is the act of doing, being or feeling something.
Compound sentence
Simple sentences
Complex sentence