Section outline

  • Student will: 


    • Be able to change the verb within a sentence based on the tense

    • Be able to use the historical present tense

    • Be able to use verbs for  analytical writing 

    • Be able to nominalise verbs by turning them to nouns

    • Be able to use modal verbs in analytical writing


      Glossary

      Verb the most important word in a sentence which expresses an action, event or state of being along with when such events have taken place

      Tense the location of a situation in time, an indication of when the situation takes place

      Conjugate the modification of a verb from its most basic form

      Subject the SUBJECT of the SENTENCE is the person or thing that the information is about

      Object the OBJECT is the person or thing that is affected by the SUBJECT

      Simple past tense is formed for most regular verbs by adding ‘d’ or ‘ed’ to the root verb 

      Perfect past tense is formed by combining the simple past tense form of the verb ‘to have’ with the past tense form of the root verb

      Simple present tense is formed through the use of the root verb alone unless referring to the third person singular noun (he, she, it) in which case the suffix ‘s’ or ‘es’ is added

      Historical present tense is used when talking about history, literary or media texts in the present tense

      Nominalisation turning a verb into a noun

      Modal verbs a verb that combines with another verb to indicate mood or tense




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