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Mastering Verb Forms and Tenses

The document discusses verb forms and tenses in English, including: - The different forms of verbs used in active and passive voice sentences in simple present, past, and future tenses. - Finite and non-finite verbs, with finite verbs following tense and voice while non-finite verbs are shortened forms indicating voice but not tense. - Examples are provided of simple, complex, and compound sentences containing one or more finite verbs. - Common verbs constructions with certain verbs like let, make, see, feel and expressions like worth, busy, accustomed to are explained.

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Mastering Verb Forms and Tenses

The document discusses verb forms and tenses in English, including: - The different forms of verbs used in active and passive voice sentences in simple present, past, and future tenses. - Finite and non-finite verbs, with finite verbs following tense and voice while non-finite verbs are shortened forms indicating voice but not tense. - Examples are provided of simple, complex, and compound sentences containing one or more finite verbs. - Common verbs constructions with certain verbs like let, make, see, feel and expressions like worth, busy, accustomed to are explained.

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Live Session

on to follow 4 steps:
You have

RIGHT FORM OF VERBS

Read the
full
passage. What type
of verb
will be
used?

Tense
Finite or
Detection
Nonfinite .

Shameem
Voice Hossen
Subject is
doing the
Subject is
not doing
Detection Voice :
work- the work –
Department of English active. passive.

University of Dhaka.
Present Simple
Active Passive

Subj+ verb-present form +ext. Subj + am, is, are+ verb past participle+
ext.

Past Simple
Active Passive

Subj+ verb-past form +ext. Subj +was, were+ verb past participle+ ext.

Future Simple
Active Passive

Subj+shall/will verb-present form +ext. Subj + shall be, will be+ verb past
participle+ ext.

Present Continuous
Active Passive

Subj+ am, is, are +v-ing +ext. Subj + am, is, are+ being+ verb past
participle+ ext.

Past Continuous
Active Passive

Subj+ was, were+ v-ing +ext. Subj + was, were+ being+ verb past
participle+ ext.

Future Continuous
Active Passive
Subj+ shall be, will be+ v-ing +ext. Subj + shall be, will be+ being+ verb past
participle+ ext.

Present Perfect
Active Passive

Subj+ have, has+ verb past participle +ext. Subj + have been, has been+ verb past
participle+ ext.

Past Perfect
Active Passive

Subj+ had+ verb past participle +ext. Subj + had been+ verb past participle+ ext.
Finite or Non finite.
Finite: Follow tense, voice,
Non- finite: Shortened form of Voice.

Active: V-ing.
Passive: V- PP
Intention- to+ verb or
to be + v-pp

Simple Sentence:
1 finite verb
Complex:
Subordinators+ 1
finite verb
Compound:
Coordinators+ 1
finite verb
I saw him_____going._(go). Simple – 1 finite
verb.

I saw a chair _____( break). Broken.

I went home ______( sing). Singing.


Cumilla- 2016
Parents ______( are ) blessings of god to us.

When a child___is__ ( born) , their joys ______


(Know) no bounds.

They started ______( thinking) of


_____(nursing ) their children.
Let us have a walk.
And +1
Suddenly She woke up and +1 ______( felt)
thirsty.(Sylhet-2016)
modal+ be

Subordinator+1 finite
They can hardly _______(realize) that they
themselves _______( ruin) / their health.(
Barisal-16)
And+1
They lead an unhappy life and __
Football
____(willissuffer)
arranged)
in thebetween two
long run.( teams
jashore-16)
_____( containing) eleven players. ( Dhaka-16)
1 finite. Nonfinite
Jerry __was commited_____( commit ) to the care of the
orphanage. ( Barishal-17)( past)

The writer __was_____( impressed) with him.

She started--FV _____( showing) affection for him.

Recently Road mishap ___has risen____( rise) to an


alarming rate_______( taking ) heavy toll of human
lives.( Dhaka-17)
The king started _____( following) the prescription.( B. 2019)

Steps _____should be taken to preserve the beauty of the


famous beach.( Jashore-19).

Most often people (who _____appear most often and most


gloriously in the pages of history)_____(are) great and generals.
Whereas, the people (who really ______help civilization forward)
often never ______ are mentioned) at all.( Dinajpur-
19)

These birds unjustly ______( imprison) and I like to_____( set)


them free. ( Rajshahi- 19)

It is a matter of sorrow that sometimes our players ____(play) so


poorly that our countrymen _______( become) astonished.(
Dhaka-19)

Cricket is called the gentlemen`s game.( Dhaka-19)


Previous Year University Questions_

1. I regret _______( tell) Marzina about the


wedding.( Du- 05-6)
2. Rumana finished______( write) two
essays in two days.( cU- 16-17)
3. We watched the boat _______( float) down
the river.( 29th BCS)
Reminder
1. His father makes him (study).( use the correct form of
verb)
Ans: The base form( infinitive without to) is used after
the direct object of certain action verbs, such as let, help,
and make, as well as after verbs of the senses, such as
hear, see, and feel.

2. It is difficult ____(to pass/ passing) the test.


Ans: Adjectives such as anxious, boring, dangerous, hard,
able, usual, pleased, easy, good, strange, common,
difficult, are always followed by the infinitive form of the
verb and never by gerund.

3. He is busy_____( to read/ reading) .


Ans: The two adjectives busy and worth take gerund after
them.
4. It is no use _____( to cry/ crying) .

Ans: Certain expressions: with a view to, look forward to,


accustomed to, no
Next part
………coming soon

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