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What is Grammar?
English Grammar Terms
The 8 English Parts of
Speech
These are the words that you use to make a sentence.
There are only
8 types of word - and the most
important is the Verb!
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Verbs |
be, have, do, work |
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Nouns |
man, town, music |
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Adjectives |
a, the, 69, big |
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Adverbs |
loudly, well, often |
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Pronouns |
you, ours, some |
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Prepositions |
at, in, on, from |
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Conjunctions |
and, but, though |
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Interjections |
ah, dear, er, um |
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Passive voice
Modal verbs
Conditionals
Questions
Irregular
verbs
Going to
Gerunds
Phrasal Verbs
Tenses
Nouns
(Un) Countable nouns
Adjectives
Articles
Pronouns
Preposition List
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| Grammar Quizzes
Parts of Speech Quiz
Verb Classification Quiz
Main Verb Forms Quiz
Active or Passive Quiz
Subjunctive Quiz
Future Time Quiz
Continuous Tense Verb
Quiz
Used to do or Be used to
Quiz
Have to,
Must, Must not Quiz
Can, Could, Be able
to Quiz
Questions Quiz
Tag Questions
Quiz
Infinitive or
-ing Quiz
Gerunds Quiz
Phrasal Verbs
Quiz
Conditionals Quiz
For or Since Quiz
Present Simple
Present Continuous
Present Perfect
Simple
Present Perfect
Continuous
Past Simple
Questions
Comparative
Adjectives
Superlative
Adjectives
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How do we make the Past Continuous Tense?
The structure of the past continuous tense is:
| subject |
+ |
auxiliary
verb BE |
+ |
main
verb |
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conjugated in simple past
tense |
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present participle |
was
were |
base + ing |
For negative sentences in the past continuous tense, we insert
not between the auxiliary verb and main verb. For question sentences, we
exchange the subject and auxiliary verb. Look at these example
sentences with the past continuous tense:
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subject |
auxiliary verb |
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main verb |
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I |
was |
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watching |
TV. |
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You |
were |
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working |
hard. |
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He, she, it |
was |
not |
helping |
Mary. |
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We |
were |
not |
joking. |
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Were |
you |
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being |
silly? |
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Were |
they |
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playing |
football? |
How do we use the past
continuous tense? >>
| english club.com Tip |
| The
spelling rules
for adding ing to make the past continuous tense are the same as for the
present continuous tense. |
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