Tense and time shifts. Verb tenses презентация

meaning you would like to express first.

E.g. Did you go to China? (Context?)
Have you been to China? (Context?)

Uses of Verb Tenses

E.g. The Singapore culture is a diverse one. Yet, the people in Singapore live in harmony despite the diversity.

Uses of Verb Tenses

so. Think about meaning before you decide to make a tense shift.

e.g. The assignment workload for FOE students at NUS is extremely heavy. I still remember in the first semester I was here, I had to cope with three projects at the same time.

Uses of Verb Tenses

Add -s or -es for third person singular.

an academic essay for this module.
They are doing some research on nanotechnology.
He is preparing the lab set up for the next class.

verbs with simple tenses only (not progressive tenses):

hate, like, love, need, prefer, want, wish
believe, imagine, know, mean, realize, recognize, remember, suppose, understand
belong, concern, consist, contain, depend, involve, matter, need, owe, own, possess
appear, arrive, resemble, seem,
hear, see

can also be expressed in
am/is/are + going to + base form
simple progressive or present progressive

See Lane and Lange (1999) p. 14 for examples.

needing the practice. (2) At this moment I have been on an airplane over the Pacific ocean, en route to a year of study at New York University in the United States. I am looking forward to being there, but I am also a little afraid. (3) What will I find when I will get to America? Will the Americans be arrogant and violent? (4) Would I make friends? (5) Am I happy?”

diary on the airplane last month. (7) When I arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport, I used to be timid and nervous. (8)I have heard a lot about crime before I left Japan, (9) so I am very scared when I arrived. (10) People in Japan had also told me that Americans will be rude, unfriendly, and unhelpful. For this reason, (11) I was very surprised when the taxi driver from the airport would carry my luggage and spoke kindly and slowly to me. (12) He even asked if there was anything else he can do. (13) And when I had been arriving at the college, everyone seemed concerned about me. I found that the majority of people here are friendly and are going out of their way to help you if you need it.

events like accidents, murders, diseases, and fights. But I don’t see as much violence in my life as I do on television. (15) I had not been mugged, and I don’t worry all the time about my safety.

States, however, seem to be true. One is that Americans don’t seem to pay much attention to rules. One of my best American friends says, in fact, “Rules are made to be broken.” The other idea I had that seems to be true is about the American family. In Japan, the family is very important, but some (17) Japanese people are thinking that the family (18) is meaning nothing in the United States. Anyway, I am going to have a chance to see a real American family. (19) I will have been going with my roommate, Susan, to spend Thanksgiving break with her family in Pennsylvania. (20)When I see her family, I will have understood more!

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Oshima, A. and Hogue, A. (2006). Writing Academic English (pp3-15) (4th ed.). New York: Pearson Education, 3-25.

Raimes, A. (2006). Grammar troublespots: A guide for student writers (3rd ed.). New York: Cambridge
University Press, 41-45.

Hanson, G. (2006). The English verb tense system: a dynamic presentation using the Cuisenaire Rods. Une Education Pour Demain. Retrieved Feb 25, 2010 from http://assoc.pagespro-orange.fr/une.education.pour.demain/articlesrrr/sw/vts.htm

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