(Individual assignment; submission is required; file extension: docx.

or
doc.)
(1) Imagine that you are assigned to write a verb survey report following the
basic structure
provided in section 1.3. Lab Report Structure
(2) Create an outline of the verb survey report you are going to write
(3) Submit your outline to Teams under the Assignment
Note:
• Your file names must follow the template Your file names must follow the
template
StudentFullName_StudentID_VerbSurveyOutline
• Useful instructions for outline writing are available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwzfnDbZCRQ&t=156s
• Useful phrases and sentences for academic and research paper writing
are available at
https://www.ref-n-write.com/trial/category/academic-phrases-vocabulary/

1. Title
- “Verb tenses and verb forms were used in research article”
2. Abstract
- Writing a lab report that you report your experiment for readers.
- Choosing correctly main verb for each sentences .
- Choosing correctly tenses and forms for each main verbs.
- There are some common tenses: past simple, present simple, …
3. Introduction
- A research article structure often contains 8-9 parts and how to
write each part is very different, especially verb forms and verb
tenses
- Research verb tense and verb forms was used in one research
article. From there, you know what tenses the report items use.
4. Methodology
- Determined main idea of this research article.
- Determined main idea of each parts following the basic structure of
lab report.
- Finding the main verbs of each sentences.
- Determined verb tense and verb form of these verb.
 - Each verb tense and each verb form in each part was counted the
quantity and filled in table.
5. Results
- Table 1 & Table 2
o Table 1:The quantity of verb tenses in each part.
o Table 2:The quantity of verb forms in each part.

Table 1. Distribution of verb tenses in each section of the research article

Section Percentage of verbs in a specific tense (%)
Present Present Present Past
simple perfect continuous simple
Introduction 25% 75% 0% 0%
Experimental Procedure 0% 0% 0% 100%
Results and Discussion 85% 10% 5% 0%
Conclusion 33% 33% 33% 0%

Table 2. Distribution of verb forms in each section of the research article

Section Percentage of verbs in a specific form (%)
Active voice Passive voice
Introduction 100% 0%
Experimental Procedure 0% 100%
Results and Discussion 50% 50%
Conclusion 67% 33%

6. Discussion
- Compare the appearance of verb tenses and verb forms
- past simple, present simple, Present perfect were used more than
the orther.
- each part in the lab report had used different verb form. there are
two main verb form that Active voice, Passive voice.
7. Conclusion
- Many vebs forms and verb tense can be used in one lab report.
- Present simple is the most used verbs tense.
- Active voice is the most used verbs form.