Unit 1 Year 2 Flashcards
When do we use the present simple?
To talk about current routines and habits
We use the present continuous with …. for habits that annoy or irritate us.
Constantly, always, forever, continually
When do we use the present perfect simple?
To talk about an action that happened at in unspecified moment in the past, when it happened doesn’t matter.
2: recent events which have a result in the present.
3: Actions that finished very recently
4: actions or situations which started in the past and continues in the present.
We can use the present perfect simple…
If we want to emphasise the completion and result of an action, or how many times an action has happened
When do we use the present perfect continuous?
When we want to emphasise the process and duration of an action
If an action is very short…
We don’t use the continuous form
We also use the continuous to..
Emphasise that an action finished very recently or in incomplete
We use the gerund:
1: As the subject of an sentence
2: After prepositions
3: After verbs of liking or disliking:
Like, love enjoy, can’t stand, don’t mind, hate
4 with ‘go’ to talk about physical activities.
Go shopping
5: after certain verbs like admit, avoid, consider, risk, suggest.
After the first 4 only ‘ing’ is the gerund. At 5) the whole word
We use the infinitive:
1: to explain why someone does something
2: immediately after the adjective
3: after expressions with too, enough, the first, the last
4: after verbs like want, learn, agree, decide, expect, forget, hope, seem, try, would like, appear, arrange, ask, try, manage, help, need, promise
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