Language Network

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Language Network
Verbs
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Verbs
Heres the Idea Regular Verbs
Why It Matters
Practice and Apply
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Verb
A verb is a word used to express an action, a
condition, or a state of being.
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Every verb has four basic forms, called its
principal parts

• the present

• the present participle

• the past

• the past participle

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These principal parts are used to make all of
the forms and tenses of the verb.
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The present and past tense are two principal
parts of a verb.
Stunt people take risks on screen.
Polly Berson performed stunts for 27 years.
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Helping verbs are used with the present and past
participles.
Stunt people are doing dangerous things all the
time.
Most stunt people have trained for many years.
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There are two kinds of verbs regular and
irregular.
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Regular Verb
A regular verb is a verb whose past and past
participle are formed by adding -ed or -d to the
present.
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Is look a regular verb?
The stunt woman never looked nervous.
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The present participle of a regular verb is
formed by adding -ing to the present.
I am looking for a job as a stunt person.
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Why It Matters
The principal parts of verbs let you express
changes in time in your writing.
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Practice and Apply
Identify the verb in the following sentence. Is
it the present, the present participle, the past,
or the past participle?
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Practice and Apply
Identify the verb in the following sentence. Is
it the present, the present participle, the past,
or the past participle?
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Practice and Apply
Identify the verb in the following sentence. Is
it the present, the present participle, the past,
or the past participle?
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Verbs
Heres the Idea Writing About the
Present Writing About the Past Writing About
the Future
Why It Matters
Practice and Apply
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A good writer uses different verb tenses to
indicate that events occur at different times.
If you do not need to indicate a change of time,
do not switch from one tense to another.
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You can write about the present using the
present tense, the present perfect tense, and
the present progressive form.
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The present tense places the actions in the
present.
Motion pictures work because of our vision.
The brain sees a series of still pictures as
moving.
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The present perfect tense places the actions in
the period of time leading up to the present.
Filmmakers have created fantastic special
effects.
They have brought dinosaurs and alien beings to
life.
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The present progressive forms show the actions
are in progress now.
Directors are learning the use of computer
effects.
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The past tense conveys actions and conditions
that came to an end in the past.
When you write about the past, you can use past
verb forms to indicate the order in which events
occurred.
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The past tense shows an action that began and was
completed in the past.
Thomas Edisons company launched the
motion-picture industry.
His employee William Dickson devised a way of
moving film through a camera.
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The past perfect tense places the actions before
other past actions.
Other inventors had put sound with pictures
before Edison did.
After the Lumière brothers had developed a
projector, Edison began projecting his films.
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The past progressive forms show that the actions
in the past were in progress.
More than 30 years ago, filmmakers were creating
realistic space scenes.
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The future tenses convey actions and conditions
that are yet to come.
By using the different future verb forms, you can
show how future events are related in time.
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The future tense shows that the actions have not
yet occurred.
Maybe everyone will make movies someday.
The line between home movies and professional
ones will blur.
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The future perfect tense places the actions
before other future actions.
Before they can read, children already will have
learned to use a camera.
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The future progressive forms show that the
actions in the future will be continuing.
Everyone will be watching everyone elses movies.
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Why It Matters
When you use the right tense, you help your
readers keep sequences of events straight.
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Practice and Apply
Choose the correct verb form in parentheses.
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Practice and Apply
Choose the correct verb form in parentheses.
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Practice and Apply
Choose the correct verb form in parentheses.
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Practice and Apply
Choose the correct verb form in parentheses.