Kamis, 21 April 2016
PRESENT
TENSE
this
tense is commonly used for habit, general truths and an event in present time. We
use tobe1 or verb1 after subject. The following examples below will make you
understand how it works.
For Habits :
I go to school by bike everyday
She goes to market at 5:00 AM for selling groceries
He always drinks a
cup of coffee in the morning
I always get up at 5:00 AM
For General truths :
Her name is Malala
The moon rotates around The Earth
The Earth revolves around The Moon
My Father is sundanese
She is from Indonesia
In the third person
singular the verb always ends in –s : he wants, she goes, he walks, she
drinks. In the negative form the third person of the auxiliary ‘DO’ + the
infinitive of the verb. Example : She wants to buy a dress. Does she want to
buy a skirt? She doesn’t want to buy a skirt.
She,He, It always end
with does (in positive form) and doesn’t (in negative form)
You,I,We,They always
end with do (in positive form) and don’t (in negative form)
PRESENT
CONTINOUS TENSE
This
tense is used for express something is happening now, at this very moment and
also it can be used to show that something isn’t happening now. It always uses tobe1 and verbs ends in –ing form. The following examples below hopefully
will make you understand how it works.
I’m eating breakfast
now
She is wearing blue
dress
He is talking with her
by phone at the moment
They are sweeping the
floor now
He is taking a break,
etc
In the question form, we put “to be1” in the beginning of sentences. Example :
Are you kidding me?
Is he looking at me?
Is she listening to the
music now?
What are you looking
for?
What are you talking
about?
PAST
TENSE
This tense is used to talk about the past, to talk about
hypotheses (something you imagine) and politeness. It use “to be2” or verb2.The
following examples below will make you understand how it works.
He arrived at 8.00 PM
She ate fried rice
We lost in the jungle
I went to school by
foot
They made a few
handcraft
PAST
CONTINOUS TENSE
This tense is
commonly used for something is happening in the past. It use “to be2” (was,were) and verb1 ends in –ing form. The following
examples below will make you understand how it works.
He was running
She was sleeping
We were talking about
The lastest fashion
They were walking
around in the park
You were jumping over
the big stone
SUBJECT-VERB
AGREEMENT
What
is subject-verb agreement? Whats the function of subject-verb agreement? Lets
find out!
Subject
verb agreement must agree with one another whether its singular or plural. The
singular goes with singular verb and the plural goes with plural verb and so
on.
Example
:
The
Girls goes home safely (singular) You were
sleepy (plural)
The
boy
has talked much about his girlfriend (singular)
She
went to market by bus (singular)
She
loves her mother (singular)
This
book
is very expensive (singular)
The
Girls go home safely (plural)
These
books are very expensive (plural)
They
are handsome (plural)
We
attend Rika’s party (plural)
The
agreement rules cant be applied to verbs such as can, could, shall, should,
may, might,etc.
Example
:
I
could bring it all by myself
She
can play a piano
She
shall goes to school with her parents
PRONOUN
There
are a few types of pronoun that u must know in order to learn English from the
basic. So, I’m going to explain you each types of pronoun. Pronoun is a word is
used instead of a noun.
Personal Pronoun
Personal
pronoun describes a particular person or thing or group.
Personal
pronoun describes the person speaking (I,me,we,us) the person spoken to (you),
or the person or thing spoken about (he,she,it,her,him,them)
Singular
: I (1st person) as subject and me as object
You
(2nd person) as subject and you as object
He,she,it
(3rd person) as subject and him,her,it as object
Plural : We (1st person) as subject and
us as object
You
(2nd person) as subject and you as object
They
(3rd person) as subject and them as object
Example
:
I
gave him a pen I
love her The
director called them
She
likes Zayn Malik It
is very hot They
like the movie very much
Possesive
Pronoun
Possessive
pronoun indicates close possession or ownership or relationship of a
thing/person to another thing/person.
Singular
: mine (1st person), yours (2nd person), hers,him,its (3rd
person)
Plural
: ours (1st person), yours (2nd person), theirs (3rd
person)
Example
:
This
book is him
This
pen is hers
All
of these pencil colours are theirs
The
Books is ours not theirs
That
car is him
Reflexive Pronoun
This pronoun describes noun when subject’s action
affects the subject itself. Reflexive pronoun always acts as object not
subject.
Singular
: I Myself
(1st person)
You yourself (2nd
person)
He,she,it Himself,herself,itself
Plural : we ourselves
(1st person) they themselves
(3rd person)
You yourselves (2nd
person)
Example : I looked at myself in the mirror
She think about herself
They prepare themselves to win a
competition
He loves himself than anyone do
We bought some play cards to have fun ourselves
Reciprocal pronoun
Its
used when two or more subject acts in same way towards each other.
Example
:
John
and Mary love each other
We
must respect each other
The
employees in the office greeted one another
The
people is helping one another
Relative pronoun
Relative
pronoun is pronoun which joins relative clauses and relative sentences. The
most commonly used five relative pronouns are, who,whom,which,whose,that.
“Who
and whom” are used for people, “who” is used for subject and “whom” is used for
object. “Which” is used for things, “whose” is used for possession and can be
used for people and things and “that” is used for people and thing.
Example
:
The
girl who called me once is very beautiful
A
pair of shoes that belongs to her
That’s
the boy whose father is a police
I
like a pair of shoes which has golden colour
Demonstrative
pronoun
Demonstrative
pronoun is pronoun that points to a thing or a group
Short
distance : this-these
Long
distance : that-those
“This”
is used for singular and “these” is used for plural and so on.
Example
:
This
book is very thick
That
man is awesome
This
view is very wonderful
These
books belong to him
Those
shirts are untidy
