Past Verb Forms With Present Or Future Meaning
A past tense does not always have a past meaning. After words like if, unless and supposing, we often use past verb forms with present or future meaning. If I had the money now I would buy a...
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Past Continuous Tense Form And Uses
Form Affirmative I was writing. She was writing. You were writing. Negative I was not writing. She was not writing. You were not writing. Question Was I writing? Was she writing? Were you writing?...
Past Perfect Tense Form And Uses
Past perfect tense forms Affirmative I had written. She had written. You had written. Negatives I had not written. She had not written. You had not written. Interrogative Had I written? Had she written?...
Past Perfect Continuous Tense Form And Uses
Past perfect continuous tense forms Affirmative I had been writing. She had been writing. You had been writing. Negative I had not been writing. She had not been writing. You had not been writing....
Passive Voice Exercise For Class 10 CBSE
Change the voice of verbs in the following sentences. Notes Transitive verbs can be in the active or passive voice. Here is an overview of the active and passive forms of verbs in the present perfect...
Passive Voice Worksheet For Class 10
A sentence has been given in active / passive voice. Out of the four suggested alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same idea in passive / active voice. Question 1 Our task...
Passive Verb Forms
Simple Present Active verb form: write/writes He writes a letter. I write letters. Passive verb form: is/am/are + written A letter is written by him. Letters are written by me. Present Progressive Active verb form: is/am/are + writing He is writing a letter. I am writing letters. Passive verb...
Active And Passive Voice | Basic Rules
When we say what people and things do, we use active verb forms. When we say what happens to people and things – what is done to them – we often use passive verb forms. They built this...
Parts Of Speech
Words of a language are divided into several classes on the basis of their grammatical behaviour. These different word classes or lexical categories are called the parts of speech. English has eight parts of...
What Are Participles?
A participle is a non-finite verb. It is partly a verb and partly an adjective. There are two types of participles – the present participle and the past participle. The present participle is the...