Past, Present, and Future

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Past, Present, and Future

• Unit 5 Verbs

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So, now we know

• Action verbs do stuff
• Linking verbs describe stuff.
• Direct Objects are stuff.
• Indirect Objects get between stuff.
• A Singular verb and a singular subject go
  together.
• Plural verbs and plural subjects go together.

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Cool!
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Today

• Today, we are going to learn about the magical
  world of verb tenses.
• Verb tenses let us know when the action happens.
  
• There are six different tenses you have to choose
  from, as well as six progressive formsbut we
  will get into all of this later
• Today, we are going to focus in on the three main
  tensespast, present, and future.

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Past Tense

• A verb is in the past tense when it expresses an
  action (or existence) that is completed at a
  particular time in the past.
• Add ed to most verbs to form the past tense.
• Example Galileo, an Italian
• scientist, was the first scientist
• to use a telescope. This only
• landed him in hot water with the
• Flat Earth Society.

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Future Tense

• A verb is in the future tense when it expresses
  action that will take place.
• Add the helping verbs will or shall in front of
  the verb.
• Example I will eat
• pizza today.

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Present Tense

• A verb is in the present tense when it expresses
  an action that is happening now or that happens
  continually or regularly.
• Example I ace tests
• sometimes, but not often
• enough.

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When to use Present Tense

• Present Action I want pizza right now! (This is
  happening right at this moment.)
• Action that happens over and over I eat pizza
  almost every day. (This is continuing from the
  past, through the present, and into the futureso
  use a present verb.)

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Present Tense

• Present tenses are also used for other things
• Scientific facts and other things that are always
  true
• Eating 25 pizzas a day is not good for you.
• Headlines
• Local Kid Explodes from Pizza Overload

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Present Tense

• Sometimes the present tense is used in place of
  the future tense
• Tomorrow I leave for a special hospital to try to
  overcome my pizza addiction.
• In book reports, you should report the ending of
  the book in present tense, as if you are reading
  it.
• In the final scenes of Pizza Panic, the hero of
  the story is cured of his pizza addiction and
  lives happily ever after, never again craving
  mozzarella and pepperoni.

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Be Consistent With Tenses

• Think clearly! Dont change tenses in a
  sentence.

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Now, time to try it out!

• Identify the tense of the underlined verb(s).
• Mom fussed at me for trashing my room.
• When I was a kid, I swung every day on an old
  tire swing.
• I will wish for a new pony.
• Adam broke the dish when he tossed it to Jenna
  who was standing at the sink.
• Mrs. Cox likes aluminum cans.
• I worked for three hours and the assignment was
  finally completed.
• Todays headline reads Local Kid Wins
  Scholarship From Pizza Hut.

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Remember

• The past tense of a verb expresses an action that
  has already happened.
• The future tense of a verb expresses an action
  that will take place in the future.
• The present tense of a verb expresses an action
  that is happening now or happens repeatedly.

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• A verb is like the engine on a car it moves the
  sentence.
• A verb is a word that shows action or a state of
  being.
• An action verb is a word that expresses action.
• An action verb can be mental (in the brain) or
  physical (the body).
• Using vivid verbs is like having a higher powered
  engine. The stronger the verb is, the more
  descriptive the sentence is.
• A direct object is a noun or pronoun that
  receives the action of the verb. It answers the
  question whom or what.
• A transitive verb has a direct object.
• An intransitive verb is independent of a direct
  object.

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• An indirect object is a noun or pronoun in the
  predicate that answers the question to whom? for
  whom? to what? or for what?.
• An indirect object will always fall between the
  verb and the direct object.
• An indirect object will never be alone. It
  always hangs out with a direct object.
• When the indirect object follows a preposition,
  it becomes the object of a preposition and is no
  longer considered an indirect object.
• A linking verb links the subject of a sentence
  with the noun or adjective in the predicate.
• A predicate noun is a noun in the predicate that
  tells who or what the subject is.
• A predicate adjective tells what the subject is
  like.
• A singular subject hangs out with a singular
  verb.
• A plural subject hangs out with a plural verb.
• Pay attention to the subject so you know which
  one to use.

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• A singular subject hangs out with a singular
  verb.
• A plural subject hangs out with a plural verb.
• Pay attention to the subject so you know which
  one to use.
• The past tense of a verb expresses an action that
  has already happened.
• The future tense of a verb expresses an action
  that will take place in the future.
• The present tense of a verb expresses an action
  that is happening now or happens repeatedly.

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BrainfullTooMuchInfo

• Oh, mannow I dont remember what happened on CSI
  last week

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