Toronto - my prizes!

Superhot - Death - Armageddon!

We ordered medium hot and it's those two orange bowls. One looks like soya sauce wings were actually honey garlic. Right down corner was celery with blue cheese (smells like foot! ) You got a deal on Tuesday night (from CAD20 to CAD10 a combo: 20 wings + pop + salad thing and fries).

Ding, ding, ding, ding! -- Someone orders Armageddon. Get ambulance ready!

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Here Comes the Tenses! - 1 introduction

The most difficult part of English grammar is tenses (only verb has tenses). The second would probably be prepositions.

There is a total of 12 tenses in English.

Each simple form - past, present and future - has continuous, perfect and perfect continuous forms. Each tense represents when and how long the verb is referring to. It is, therefore, easier to understand if students have a better understanding of time (space/dimension). The arrow is the most common way of explaining this.

The good news is most of the time, we use only 5-6 of them. I.E. All simple forms (past, present, future) and the 2 continuous forms (past continuous, present continuous) and maybe past perfect (which can be avoided).

Q&A

I : So, what makes the man weak?

Student : The man is weak.

I : That's my question.

重說動詞: VERBS FORMS

Base form of a verb has no ending added.
e.g.          eat           swim          write

There are 4 verbs forms:

	Present (Base)	Past	Present Participle	Past Participle
regular	walk	walked	walking	walked
irregular	write	wrote	writing	written

Adding -s

Verbs ending -ch, -s, -x or -z	Base form + es	He fixes.
Verbs ending in -y	Base form - y + ies	Maria studies

Adding -ed

Verbs ending in e	Base for + d	fixed
Verbs ending with consonant + y	Base form – y + ied	studied
Verbs ending with vowel + y	Base form + ed	played
Verbs ending with short vowel + consonant	Base form + last consonant + ed	stopped

Adding -ing

Verbs ending in e	Base form – e + ing	living
Verbs ending with short vowel + consonant	Base form + last consonant + ing	stopping
Verbs ending in ie	Base form – ie + ying	die --> dying

重說動詞: TYPES of VERBS

The infinitive form consists of the word "to" plus the base form of a verb.

          to eat          to swim          to write

Verbs can take many different forms.

Simple sentence : subject + verb + object / complement

MAIN VERBS

Action Verbs	Non-action Verbs	Linking Verbs
show physical action the subject does	tell about state of mind or senses	link the word that renames or describes the subject
to eat to swim to write	to think to look to understand	to be (is/am/are/was/were) to become to grow

HELPING VERBS

Auxiliary Verbs			Modal Verbs
be (is/am/are/was/were) do/does/did have/has/had will/would	+	Main Verb	can/could/    may/might/    should/would/    must/have to/    need to/ ought to	+	Main Verb

重說動詞: WHAT ARE VERBS?

Every sentence MUST have a verb.

A verb tells what the subject is (linking verb) or does (action verb).

Verb can:-- tell times
-- tell number & person
-- take object
-- make a statement, question or command
-- help other verbs