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Past · I was eating apple yesterday. I took a bite and I saw... (I, He)
CONTINUOUS · Were you eating organic apple? (You, We, They)
T. · No, I was not eating organic apple.
PAST
Tenses Past · I had washed the car at the weekend. But it got dirty again.
PERFECT · Had you washed the car yesterday?
T. · No, I had not washed the car yesterday.
Past · I had been washing the car for 2 hours when you finally came.
PERFECT · Had you been washing the car for that long?
CONTINUOUS · No, I had not been washing the car. I lied!
T.
Future
PERFECT · I will have washed the car by the time you come back from work.
T.
Future
PERFECT · I will have been teaching English for 25 years in December.
CONTINUOUS
T.
· You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other
people get what they want. (Zig Ziglar)
· With our love, we could save the world. (George Harrison)
· If youth knew; if age could . (Sigmund Freud)
· The blood is able to carry the fresh oxygen in red blood cells
because of the hemoglobin protein.
· Inmate died before he was able to prove his innocence.
Can, · A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Could, (John F. Kennedy)
Able to, · Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back. (Don Herold)
May, · You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few
Might, drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Should, (Mahatma Gandhi)
Must, · You have to think anyway, so why not think big? (Donald Trump)
MODALS Have to · I had to sell my car to pay my bills.
(Has to)
· Fracking for natural gas might be contaminating aquifers.
We might be able to repair your car today.
Passive:
· The woman must be taken to a hospital.
· The woman must be told the bad news.
(= The bad news must be told to the woman.)