"Simple Tenses" | English Grammar with Educator.com - By LearningUpgrade
00:0-1 | Welcome back to educator dot coms , English grammar course | |
00:02 | . This lesson is about simple verb tenses . Let's | |
00:05 | get started . All right , We're gonna begin by | |
00:09 | asking what is a verb tense ? We're gonna find | |
00:12 | out what they are , how they work and what | |
00:14 | they dio . We're gonna look at three simple tenses | |
00:17 | . The simple present , the simple past and the | |
00:19 | simple future . And we're also going to look at | |
00:21 | the irregular past , tense and past participle . This | |
00:24 | is a set of verbs that play by their own | |
00:26 | rules . We're gonna look at them in detail and | |
00:29 | finally , we're gonna learn how to use simple tenses | |
00:31 | in our writing . Alright , What is a verb | |
00:34 | tense ? Well , the word tents in English for | |
00:37 | grammar comes from the Latin word tempos . Which means | |
00:40 | time verb tenses are the ways that verbs change according | |
00:44 | to the time at which the action they describe occurs | |
00:47 | . There are three simple tenses . Simple , present | |
00:50 | tense describes actions that occur in the present . Simple | |
00:54 | past tense describes actions that occurred in the past , | |
00:59 | and simple future tense describes actions that will occur in | |
01:03 | the future . Some verbs called irregular verbs , have | |
01:06 | special participle forms that create unusual tenses and we'll look | |
01:10 | at those as well . Okay , let's begin with | |
01:13 | a review of basic verb forms . This was covered | |
01:16 | in the last lesson , but we're gonna go over | |
01:17 | it briefly so we can use it here . The | |
01:20 | base form of the verb is the first person singular | |
01:23 | present tense , the form that you've used in the | |
01:25 | sentence . I do something or after two to form | |
01:29 | the infinitive , so the cookies smell amazing . The | |
01:32 | verb is to smell and the base form is smell | |
01:36 | . The present participle form is usually created by adding | |
01:40 | the Suffolk's I N G to the base form . | |
01:43 | The birds are singing to sing , and the past | |
01:47 | participle form , which will get into today , is | |
01:49 | created by adding the Suffolk's D or E D to | |
01:53 | the base form . I walked to the bus stop | |
01:56 | . The verb is walk |
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