This document discusses various tenses and grammatical concepts in English including the present and past tense, modal auxiliaries, progressive and perfect tenses, passive voice, genitive case, and relative clauses. It explains that the present tense is used to state habitual actions and facts, while the past tense talks about past events. It also outlines the uses of modal auxiliaries, progressive and perfect tenses, passive voice, genitive case, and relative clauses.
This document discusses various tenses and grammatical concepts in English including the present and past tense, modal auxiliaries, progressive and perfect tenses, passive voice, genitive case, and relative clauses. It explains that the present tense is used to state habitual actions and facts, while the past tense talks about past events. It also outlines the uses of modal auxiliaries, progressive and perfect tenses, passive voice, genitive case, and relative clauses.
This document discusses various tenses and grammatical concepts in English including the present and past tense, modal auxiliaries, progressive and perfect tenses, passive voice, genitive case, and relative clauses. It explains that the present tense is used to state habitual actions and facts, while the past tense talks about past events. It also outlines the uses of modal auxiliaries, progressive and perfect tenses, passive voice, genitive case, and relative clauses.
Present tense used to state habitual activity and
facts. Past Tense used to talk about the past event Modal auxiliary facilitate the main verb for suggesting potential, expectation, permission, ability, possibility, and obligation. Progressive tense used to describe ongoing action. Perfect tense used to show that an action has taken place once or many times before now. Passive voice is the opposite of active voice. Passive voice used when u want to focus on the person or things affected by the action. Genitive is used to express possession, measure, or origin; as John’s hat, week’s vacation, duty’s call. Relative Clauses are clauses starting with relative pronouns; who, whose, whom, which, that. They are used to identify the noun.