Posts belonging to Category 'present'

simple and progressive

December 13, 2006   |   Posted by profanglais

There are only two pure tenses in English, despite what your grammar book or teacher might say. They are the present simple and the past simple. Everything else requires an auxiliary or a modal verb. In a way, all the variations that are possible in English other than these two pure tenses are modal. Most [...]

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what we did last weekend

November 27, 2006   |   Posted by profanglais

I like asking about people’s weekend on a Monday or Tuesday to start the lesson. Here is a typical dialogue, can you see what’s wrong with it? – So, what did you do this weekend, Baudouin? – I walked Perfectly correct as far as the grammar is concerned. But to say, “I walked” doesn’t give [...]

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