Verb Tenses Simple Past FORM [VERB + ed] USE 1 Completed Action in the Past Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes‚ the speaker may not actually mention the specific time‚ but they do have one specific time in mind. Examples: I saw a movie yesterday. USE 2 A Series of Completed Actions We use the Simple Past to list a series of completed actions in the past. These actions happen 1st‚ 2nd‚ 3rd‚
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David Foster Wallace’s speech “This is Water‚” explodes with creativity. He links simple items‚ like water‚ to apply to higher education‚ and just simple life. He puts a lot of emphasis on how to think consciously‚ and just being compassionate and thinking about others. One of the first point that David makes is that a liberal art college teaches you how to think. Then‚ he goes into great depth about how we think unconsciously. One of his examples is “The point here is that I think this is one
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A Put in the verbs in brackets in the correct tenses. Example: The sun ______________ now. (to shine) Answer: The sun is shining now. 1) We TV when it started to rain. (to watch) 2) I to visit you yesterday‚ but you not at home. (to want) (to be) 3) Look! It ‚ so we can’t to the beach. (to rain) (to go) 4) There are a lot of clouds! It soon. (to rain) 5) The sun in the East. (to rise) 6) Since 2003 they their son every year. (to visit) 7) While the doctor Mr Jones‚ his son outside this
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ASSELIT Grammar Test on Tenses Direction: Encircle the best answer in each question. 1. Marie started to cook for her visitors’ meal an hour ago. She is still cooking. a. Marie is cooking for an hour already. b. Marie was cooking for an hour already. c. Marie has been cooking for an hour already. d. Marie will be cooking for an hour already. 2. Yesterday‚ the computer crashed while he _________ the document. a. had saved b. saved c. was saving d. saves 3. Magdalene and her family went to
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Wallace Stevens(October 2‚ 1879 – August 2‚ 1955) Career and Life * Stevens was born in Reading‚ Pennsylvania on October 2‚ 1879‚ and died at the age of seventy-six in Hartford‚ Connecticut on August 2‚ 1955.He attended Harvard as a special student from 1897 to 1900 but did not graduate; he graduated from New York law school in 1903 and was admitted to the New York bar in 1904. * The same year he met Elsie Kachel‚ a young woman from Reading‚ whom he married in 1909. They had one daughter
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When having difficulty explain something to a friend may use a fable story to further explain their point through a simply story. David Foster Wallace a well known American writer was invited to give a commencement speech at Kenyon College. In the beginning of this speech he starts off with two young fish that are swimming around and then encounter an older fish ask them how’s the water then causing them to wonder what is water. Not to mention the important aspects in life are usually the hardest
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William Wallace Analyse the different ways in which the life‚ career and death of William Wallace has been presented over time. Support your response with source that you have studied in class. William Wallace is portrayed in many different ways‚ as both a good and bad man. There isn’t much historical evidence about William Wallace‚ so people just make up most of the information about him as you could tell such a great story. Some people believed that William Wallace was a heroic man‚ so wrote
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Suddenly they _________(hear) a strange noise and ___________(look) at each other in terror. All evening they _________(play) cards and ____________(watch) television without thinking of the ghost. Fill in the following gaps with the appropriate tenses of the verbs in brackets. Last Friday I arranged (arrange) to meet my boyfriend at a restaurant. I (1) __________(arrive) first and because it (2) ____________(pour) with rain‚ I went inside. After an hour my boyfriend (3) ______________(arrive)
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Verb Tense Exercise 1 Simple Present / Present Continuous 1. Every Monday‚ Sally (drive) her kids to football practice. 2. Usually‚ I (work) as a secretary at ABT‚ but this summer I (study) French at a language school in Paris. That is why I am in Paris. 3. Shhhhh! Be quiet! John (sleep) . 4. Don ’t forget to take your umbrella. It (rain) . 5. I hate living in Seattle because it (rain‚ always) . 6. I ’m sorry I can ’t hear what you (say) because everybody (talk) so loudly.
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William Wallace was born in January of the year 1272. He was the second of three sons. Wallace was born in the town of Elerslie‚ which was in Scotland. His Father Sir Malcolm Wallace held the title of knight but had no political power. Wallace’s Father was involved in a rebellion called Turnberry Band when William was 14 years old and was sent to live with his uncle Argile. His Uncle taught William Latin and French and how to be a swordsman. When William’s father returned from the revolt at Turnberry
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