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· I eat an apple every day.

(I, You, We, They)


He eats an apple every day. · I am a teacher.
SIMPLE · Do you eat an apple every day? You are a student.
Present Does he eat an apple every day? He is a student.
T. · No, I do not eat an apple every day.
No, he does not eat an apple every day.

· I am eating apple now.


He is eating an apple.
Present We are eating apple. (You, We, They)
CONTINUOUS · Are you eating an apple?
T. Is he eating an apple?
· No, I am not eating an apple now.
No, he is not eating an apple.
PRESENT
Tenses · I have eaten 10 apples so far. (I, You, We, They)
He has eaten a box of apples in 2 days.
Present · Have you eaten your apple?
PERFECT Has he eaten your apple?
T. · No, I have not eaten your apple. It was mine!
No, he has not eaten any apple in a month!.

· I have been washing the Boss's car since noon.


(It is clean, but I am tired.)
Present He has been washing the car since noon.
PERFECT · Have you been washing the car all this time?
CONTINUOUS Has he been washing the car all this time?
T. · No, I have not been washing the car.
No, he has not been washing the car.

SIMPLE · I ate only 1 apple yesterday. You ate the rest.


Past · Did you eat all of the apples?
T. · No, I did not eat all of them.

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.

TENSES Simple · I will eat more apples from now on.


· Will you eat 2 or 3 apples a day??
· The bus leaves at 10 pm tomorrow.
I am going to Istanbul tomorrow.
FUTURE
+ T. · No, I will not eat more than 5.
MODALS
FUTURE · I will be washing the car this time tomorrow.
Continuous · Will you be washing the car this time tomorrow?
T. · No, I will not be washing the car this time tomorrow.

TO BE · I am going to wash the car in the morning.


FUTURE You are going to wash the car in the morning.
Tenses GOING TO
Future T. He is going to wash the car in the morning.

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.)

Modal + have + V3:


· I could have learned English when I was in college. (I had the opportunity.)
· I may have sent the money to the wrong account. (It is possible.)
· I should have killed you when I had the chance! (But I didn't.)
· I must have forgotten to pay the bills.

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