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Future Simple - Organizing Verbs
Future Simple - Organizing Verbs
(an attempt to organize the verbs on the basis of similar verb endings)
REGULAR VERBS
PRESENT
FUTURE SIMPLE: -
PAST SIMPLE
PRESENT
FUTURE SIMPLE: -
*
PAST SIMPLE
PRESENT: -
FUTURE SIMPLE: -
PAST SIMPLE: -
PRESENT: -
FUTURE SIMPLE: -
PAST SIMPLE: -
PRESENT: -
FUTURE SIMPLE: -
PAST SIMPLE: -
PRESENT: -
EXCEPTION:
FUTURE SIMPLE: -
PAST SIMPLE: -
IRREGULAR VERBS
PRESENT
PRESENT
FUTURE SIMPLE
FUTURE SIMPLE
NOTE: there's a big difference between Simple Tenses and Continuous Tenses.
The Continuous Future Tense describes action that will go on happening forever and ever, or for a long time in the
future. It is formed by simply adding in front of the verb in the Present tense (eg. - //
).
The Simple Future Tense describes action that will happen once or at a very specific time in the future. For the
majority of the verbs (called regular'), the Simple Future is formed by adding the ending - at the end of the stem of
the verb as you know it from the Present tense. his new addition might affect the last letter (-s) of the stem in a
number of ways:
a) a consonant might disappear (e.g. - = - // - = -),
b) a consonant may turn into an altogether new letter, one of those compound consonants (, ) that still preserve the
sound -s- in them (e.g. - // ),
c) the vowel -- in the group of verbs that end in turns into -- (e.g. , ).
By replacing the ending - at the end of the stem of the verb with the ending - and by moving the stress to the
previous syllable, you get the Simple Past tense. This tense describes action that took place once in the past (e.g.
- ).