DK Grammar Guide
19 The present participle stays the same when you make the negative. Add “not” after “be” to make the negative. Contractions are ...
20 Present tenses overview THE PRESENT SIMPLE AND THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS PRESENT TENSE QUESTIONS The present simple is used to t ...
21 The present simple and present continuous are used in different situations. There are different ways to form questions and ne ...
22 Imperatives Imperatives are used to give commands or to make requests. They can also be used to give warnings or directions. ...
23 An imperative sentence does not usually have a subject, but sometimes a noun or a pronoun is used to make it clear who is bei ...
24 The past simple To form a regular verb in the past simple, “-ed” is added to the base form. Most verbs in the past simple do ...
25 The past simple of all regular verbs ends in “-ed,” but for some verbs, there are some spelling changes, too. SPELLING RULES ...
26 COMMON IRREGULAR VERBS IN THE PAST SIMPLE Some verbs do not take “-ed” to form the past simple. There are no specific rules a ...
27 HOW TO FORM The past simple of “be” is completely irregular. It is the only verb in the past simple which changes depending o ...
28 The past simple negative is used to talk about things that did not happen in the past. It is always formed the same way, unle ...
29 When using the negative form of the past simple, “didn’t” plus the main verb in the base form is used. The main verb is never ...
30 Questions in the past simple are formed using “did.” For past simple questions with “be,” the subject and the verb “was” or “ ...
31 QUESTIONS IN THE PAST SIMPLE WITH “BE” FURTHER EXAMPLES To make a question using the verb “be” in the past simple, swap the o ...
32 The past continuous is used in English to talk about actions or events that were in progress at some time in the past. It is ...
33 THE PAST CONTINUOUS AND THE PAST SIMPLE FURTHER EXAMPLES When English uses the past continuous and past simple together, the ...
34 The present perfect simple is used to talk about events in the recent past that still have an effect on the present moment. I ...
35 Regular past participles are formed by adding “-ed” to the base form. English has a lot of irregular past participles, which ...
36 “GONE / BEEN” FURTHER EXAMPLES “Be” and “go” are both used in the present perfect to talk about going somewhere, but they hav ...
37 THE PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE AND THE PAST SIMPLE FURTHER EXAMPLES The past simple is used to talk about something that happened ...
38 The present perfect continuous is used to talk about a continuing activity in the past that still has an effect on the presen ...
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