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Page 1: Grammar

Nadina C. Nicolici

Page 2: Grammar

1. Choose the category and the value

2. You are given the answer, make the correct question

Page 3: Grammar

Present Tense Past Tense Present

PerfectPast

Perfect Future

100 100 100 100 100

200 200 200 200 200

300 300 300 300 300

Page 4: Grammar

Present Tense for 100

Answer:

It is used for general truths.

Page 5: Grammar

Present Tense for 100

Question:

What is the Present Tense Simple used for?

Return

Page 6: Grammar

Present Tense for 200

Answer:

It is used for a future action, part of a plan.

Page 7: Grammar

Present Tense for 200

Question:

Is Present Tense Continuous used correctly in this sentence:

“I am leaving tomorrow morning”?

Return

Page 8: Grammar

Present Tense for 300

Answer:

It expresses annoying actions.

Page 9: Grammar

Present Tense for 300

Question:

What does the Present Tense Continuous + frequency adverb express?

Return

Page 10: Grammar

Past Tense for 100

Answer:

It is used for a completed action in a time before now.

Page 11: Grammar

Past Tense for 100

Question:

What is the Past Tense Simple used for?

Return

Page 12: Grammar

Past Tense for 200

Answer:

It expresses a change of mind.

Page 13: Grammar

Past Tense for 200

Question:

What does Past Tense Continuous express?

Return

Page 14: Grammar

Past Tense for 300

Answer:

It expresses a very polite request (with “wonder”).

Page 15: Grammar

Past Tense for 300

Question:

What does this sentence express: “I was wondering if you could open to window”?

Return

Page 16: Grammar

Present Perfect for 100

Answer:

It is composed of two elements: to have (present tense) + past participle of the main

verb.

Page 17: Grammar

Present Perfect for 100

Question:

How do you form the Present Perfect Simple?

Return

Page 18: Grammar

Present Perfect for 200

Answer:

They express the idea of an unidentified time before now.

Page 19: Grammar

Present Perfect for 200

Question:

What do ever and never express?

(I have never visited France

Have you ever been there?) Return

Page 20: Grammar

Present Perfect for 300

Answer:

It is used when time is not important or not specified.

It is used when details about the time or place are specified or asked for.

Page 21: Grammar

Present Perfect for 300

Question:

What is the difference between Paste Tense and Present Perfect?

Return

Page 22: Grammar

Past Perfect for 100

Answer:

It refers to a past time, earlier than before now.

Page 23: Grammar

Past Perfect for 100

Question:

What does the Past Perfect Simple refer to?

Return

Page 24: Grammar

Past Perfect for 200

Answer:

It corresponds to a present time, but with reference to a time earlier than before now.

Page 25: Grammar

Past Perfect for 200

Question:

What is the correspondence between Present Perfect Continuous and Past Perfect

Continuous?

Return

Page 26: Grammar

Past Perfect for 300

Answer:

This form is also used in reported speech as equivalent of the past continuous and the

present perfect continuous in direct speech.

Page 27: Grammar

Past Perfect for 300

Question:

What two tenses from direct speech become Past Perfect Continuous in indirect speech?

Return

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Future Tense for 100

Answer:

This can express both a later event than now and our attitude.

Page 29: Grammar

Future Tense for 100

Question:

What does the future tenses express in general?

Return

Page 30: Grammar

Future Tense for 200

Answer:

It is composed of three elements: to have (future simple) + past participle of the main

verb.

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Future Tense for 200

Question:

How do you form the Future Perfect Continuous?

Return

Page 32: Grammar

Future Tense for 300

Answer:

It suggests a very strong association with the present.

Page 33: Grammar

Future Tense for 300

Question:

What is the function of “to be going to”?

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