Perfect Tense and Progressive ; Sixth grade grammar ; Homeschool

Perfect Tense and Progressive ; irregular verbs ; Sixth grade grammar ; Homeschool

English, my weakest subject has been the hardest of all when it came to grammar. But after a few days of practice, I started to get the hang of it. It’s still my weakness but... I’m sort of getting better. Thanks to “Writers Choice: Grammar and Composition” and my incredible mother, I have learned to perfect tense, irregular verbs and progressive. 

Perfect tenses:

Past perfect tense:

A past tense explains a past action that had already happened. The passed tense is expressed using had + the past particle of the verb. 

Example: We had already signed the contract before you arrived. 

Present perfect tense:

A present perfect tense is a verb that express an action or condition performed at an indefinite time in the past. 

Example: They have paid the the health insurance copay. 

One thing to keep in mind with the present perfect tense is that it can only be used when you don't know exactly when something or condition has been done in the past. 

Incorrect Example: She has started her report yesterday. => She started her report yesterday

 

Future perfect tense: 

The future perfect tense is the tense you use when an action or state is going to be future, and ends before something that will happen in the distant future. 

Example: By 2021, she will have lived there for 12 months. 

Example: By the time Mylk goes to college, tuitions will have decreased dramatically (I wish)

Progressive forms:  

Present progressive: I am writing something interesting

Past progressive: I was writing something interesting

Future progressive: I will be writing something interesting 

Present perfect progressive: I have been writing something interesting

Past perfect progressive: I had been writing something interesting

Future perfect progressive: I will have been writing something interesting

Irregular Verbs:

base form

past form

past participle

beat	beat	beaten
begin	began	begun
bite	bit	bitten or bit
blow	blew	blown
break	broke	broken
bring	brought	brought
cast	cast	cast
catch	caught	caught
come	came	come
draw	drew	drawn
fall	fell	fallen
find	found	found
fly	flew	flown
freeze	froze	frozen
give	gave	given
grow	grew	grown
know	knew	known
lay	laid	laid
lie	lay	lain
raise	raised	raised
rise	rose	risen
see	saw	seen
shake	shook	shaken
sing	sang	sung
sink	sank	sunk
speak	spoke	spoken
steal	stole	stolen
swear	swore	sworn
throw	threw	thrown
write	wrote	written

4. Irregular plural forms

sheep, sheep / foot, feet / goose, geese / dear, dear / tooth, teeth / louse, lice / ox, oxen / woman, women / moose, moose / tomato, tomatoes / patio, patios / life, lives / photo, photos / self, selves / wolf, wolves / leaf, leaves / echo, echoes / fish, fish

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