[programmers' English growth path] English learning serial one (verb general tense)

How important verbs are

Hello everyone, Most of us have studied English in Middle School —— Exam oriented English , We all know five sentence patterns , Three clauses . There are a lot of noun concepts in it , guest of honour 、 The part of speech 、 introducer 、 Third order 、 Flip flop 、 Pronouns and more than a dozen troublesome tenses , Then in English , How important are verbs ？

—— It can be said that verbs account for half or more of the importance .

Learning to use verbs correctly can improve your understanding of English , And it can deepen your image of other concepts , Let you express events in English more fluently .

For example, Copula ：am / is / are Past tense ：was were past participle ：been

auxiliary verb ：do dose will shall should etc.

Modal verbs ：can may etc.

When I see these things, I am quite collapsed .

Who am I , What is this? , Why do I always use these things wrong .

therefore ...

Why are verbs so difficult ？

I find , One of the reasons why verbs are difficult is , As a Chinese , In Chinese , Verbs are often simple .

for example ：

When your friend asks what you are doing , What will your answer be ？

A、 Write an article .

B、 I am writing an article

C、 I am writing an article at the moment

D、 I was just writing an article , Now I'm drinking coffee

What would you answer , Maybe the rate will be A perhaps B Well , When we express that we are writing an article , The concept of time of words can be ignored . Why? ？ Because the context has already indicated .

C Options , Writing at the moment , There is no more specific meaning , It's just that I'm writing now . and D Options , I was just writing , It means that I have stopped writing , But you don't know if I'm over .

What if we use English ？

What are you doing now?

A、I write an article.

B、I am writing an article.

C、I have been writing an article.

D、I have written an article before I drink a cup of coffee.

Among these options in English A It is already wrong , Because it doesn't indicate a specific tense , You can't read the state you want to express in this sentence .

Options B Well , I am writing an article , The present continuous tense is used ,be Verb plus verb ing It forms the expression that is being done now .

Options C , Present perfect continuous tense , I have been writing this article , Until you ask me , I'm also writing , It's been repeating .

Options D, This is the present perfect tense , It's over before I drink coffee

In fact, there is a particularly important understanding implied here , Is the tense of English verbs , It is an accurate expression of time , Specific to which time period I am , When is it done or finished .

This is the difficulty . We are not used to thinking about when verbs end , When did it happen , This will cause us to have no idea what tense to use , There will be a lot of embarrassment of improper use of verbs .

So the key is to write a sentence , First consider the time period it is in , Then choose an appropriate expression tense combination , Finally, fill in the subject and predicate .

tense

I have a tense , A more scientific form （ come from b standing up Lord ）. It is distinguished by the axis of time 16 A tense , These tenses are on their respective time axes .

classification	The past, the past	In the past	The past and the future	Now?	future
commonly	-	did General past tense	would do General past future tense	do Present tense	will do In the future
Conduct	have been done The past perfect continuous tense	was doing In the past __________have been doing Present perfect continuous tense	would be doing Past future continuous tense _____________would have been doing Past future perfect continuous tense	am / is / are present progressive	will be doing In the future __________will have been doing In the future
complete	had done pluperfect	have done present perfect	would have done Past and future perfect tense		will have done future perfect

There are many things to pay attention to , Let's see one by one .

Let's look at the general tense this time ：

1、 General past tense

This is very simple

I wrote an article.

I wrote an article , This writing highlights the characteristics of the past tense , Is my “ Yes ”, It's done , And now there is no state of writing .

If you want to explain in detail when it was written , You can add an adverbial of time to explain ：

I wrote an article on Sunday.

Why say an adverbial of time ？ Because if you want to express that you wrote an article on Sunday , If you write an article, you must use the past tense . For example, our common mistakes :

I write an article on Sunday.

We want to express that we wrote an article on Sunday , Verbs must change tense instead of using verb prototype , This is a very common mistake .

2、 General past future tense

What is the general past and future , A dizzy combination of words and sentences . We must understand it from the example sentence .

He told me that he would play football with me if the weather was not bad.

He told me if the weather was not bad , Will play football with me .

Generally, the starting point of the past future tense is a certain time in the past , That is to see the action or state to happen in the future from a certain moment in the past .

He has （told me） Tell me , If the weather is not bad （ Past decisions about the future , The starting point is the past ）,（ The past and the future ） Will play football with me .

In fact, this is also very winding .

What is the point in time in the past to consider future things ？

For example, you want to say a word ,

“ Two years ago. , I said I wanted to go to America ”.

I said that I would go to America two years ago.

This is the general past future tense . Is expressing a time in the past , What do I want to do .

“ Before I finish eating , I don't think this is delicious “

I didn't think that I would feel this kind was very delicious.

" Before I go to bed , I've decided to exercise tomorrow ".

Before I sleep, I decided that I would do some sports tomorrow.

What about? , These examples are not to feel .

A few more homework ：

1、 I don't know if he will come

2、 I don't know what to do , What would he think about it ？

3、 Present tense

This is the most commonly used tense , Express things and states that often happen .

First of all, the present tense is the present , It is still happening , Or something of the nature of truth .

for example ： The earth revolves around the sun .

The Earth turns around the Sun.

This rurn Is generally now , Regular or rational actions .

For example ：

He always goes to the library on Saturdays .

He always goes to the library on Saturday.

Another example ：

I like you .

I like you.

If you write I like you like this ：

I liked you. I have loved you . Parting quote .

Present tense , It's easy to understand , Of the nature of truth 、 Express repetitive actions .

4、 In the future

This tense is also easy to understand , Is what will be done in the future .

I want to study English for three months .

I will learn English for three months.

Be careful , The general future tense occurs in the future .

If it's an expression

I have to study English for three months , It's not the general future tense .

But the general past and future tense mentioned above .

I learned English for two months and I would still be learning it for three months.

There is a strange problem ;

Why can't we use it like this directly ？

I would be learning English for three months.

Because the past and future tense cannot be used directly here , You need to set the time in the past , Then we can use the past future continuous tense .

We have gone through the general tense on the timeline .

What can we find ？

What is tense ？

Time of action , And the state of action

One thing in English , Whether you are doing it or will do it in the future is the time of action in English , Whether you do it or not is the state of action in English .

When we are writing sentences , First consider when this was done ？ Then consider whether you did it or not ？ Still half done, continue to do ？

This process is not particularly difficult , We need to change the situation in which we speak and think .

Exercises and topics

Welcome to write your homework submission in the comment area .

1、 Yesterday we played football together

2、 Beijing Winter Olympics （XXIV Olympic Winter Games） stay 9 It opened days ago , If I have time , I will definitely watch the live broadcast .

3、 I think he will tell me what he is thinking .

4、 The Olympic Games promote the exchange of ideas among people of all countries .

5、 I'm learning （Zhi Hu） To learn English .

 

English learning needs more practice , See more , Listen to more , Say more . In this way, we can get twice the result with half the effort .