EXERCISE
23.
Error analysis: present verbs. (Chapter
1)
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Directions:
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in
verb tense usage. .
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player is play one of his favorite CDs-loudly. Omar is very happy: he is drive his own
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car and listen to loud music. He's look forward to his visit with his aunt.
(2)
Omar is visiting his aunt once a week. She's elderly and live alone. She is
thinking Omar a wonderful nephew. She love his visits. He try to be helpful and
considerate in every way. His aunt don't hearing well, so Omar is speaks loudly and
dearly when he's with her.
(3)
When he's there, he
fiu
things
for her around her apartment and help her with
her shopping. He isn't staying with her overnight. He usually is staying for a few hours
and then is heading back to the city. He kiss his aunt good-bye and give her a hug
before he is leaving. Omar is a very good nephew.
*Brand
new
means "completely new?
Present
Time
23
CONTENTS

and
-ed
forms
EXERCISE
1.
Review
of
present verbs and preview
of
past verbs. (Chapters
1
and
2)
Direcrions:
Discuss the
italicized
verbs. Do thw exuress mesent time or oast time? Do the
.
-
verbs describe
an
activity or situation that
. .
.
a. is in progress right now?
b. is usual or is a general statement of fact?
c. began and ended
in
the past?
d. was in progress at a time in the past?

6.
Wile she
wos driving
to work, her cell
phone
mng.
7.
She
answered
it. It
was
her friend Rob.
8.
She
was
happy to hear from
him
because she
likes
Rob a lot and always
enjoys
her
conversations with him.
9.
While they
were talking,
Jennifer, who
is
allergic to bee srings,
norieed

the accident.
13.
Jennifer
is
okay, but her car
isn't.
It
nee&
repairs.
14.
When Jennifer
got
to work this morning, she
talked
to her own automobile insurance
agent.
15.
That
was
easy to do because he
works
at
the
desk right next to hers.
I
I,
I
2-1
EXPRESSING PAST TIME: THE SIMPLE PAST
downtown

adbed
on time last night.
verb,
as
in
(a), (c), and (d).
(e)
I
a&
breakfast this morning.
Some verbs have irregular past forms, as in
@),
(e), and
Cf)
Sue
took
a taxi to the airport yesterday.
(f). See Chart
2-7,
p.
33.
(g)
I
waa
busy yesterday.
The simple past forms of
be
are
was
and

was
in
class
yesterday.
We-You-They
were
in class yesterday
I-She-HcIt
waa
not (wasn't)
in class yesterday.
We-You-Thw
were
not (weren't)
in
class yesterday.
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,,
,
Ws
I-she-he-it
in
class yesterday?
'
Hkrrs
we-vou-thw
in
class yesterday?
Yes, I-she-he-it
was.

immt
the telephone.
(b)
Alexander *ham Bell itwented the telephone.
2.
You live in a tree.
3.
You took a taxi to school today.
4.
You're sitting on a soft, comfortable sofa.
5.
Our
teacher wrote
Romeo
and
Juliet.
6.
Our
teacher's name
is
William Shakespeare.
7.
You were on a cruise ship inthe Mediterranean
Sea yesterday.
8.
Rocks float and wood sinks.
9.
The teacher flew into the classroom today.
10.
Spiders have

1. You got up at 4:30 this morning.
,
.
2.
(
.
.
.
)
is standing in the comer of the classroom.
3.
(
.
.
.
)
stands in a comer of the classroom during class each day.
,
4.
(
.
. .
)
stood in a corner during class yesterday.
5.
This book has a green cover.
6.
Shakespeare wrote novels.
7.
A

&
14.
This room has
(supply an incowect number)
windows.
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.
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15.
(
.
.
.
)
and you studied together at the library last night.
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,.
16.
(
.
.
.
)
went to
(an impossible place)
yesterday.

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Example:
.
.
.
hasihave tails.

SPEAKER
A
(book open):
People have tails.
,I
SPEAWR
B
(book closed):
No, people don't have tails. Dogs have tails. Cats have tails.
Biis have tails. But people don't have tails.
1.
.
. .
islare blue.
2. You ate
. . .
for breakfast this morning.
*T%e symbol
(
.
. .
)
means "supply the name

left class early yesterday.
10.
. . .
hashave six legs.
1 1.
.
. .
was singing a song when the teacher walked into the room today.
12.
.
.
.
wore a black suit to class yesterday.
13.
. . .
islare watching a video right now.
14.
You
.
. .
last weekend.
15.
People
. .
.
in
ancient times.
16.
.
.

/
7.
pulled
=
pull/ I
12.
touched
=
touch1
/
3.
wanted
=
want/
ad
1
8.
pushed
=
push1 I
13.
waved
=
wave/
/
4.
asked
=
asW
1

pronounced It/ after voiceless sounds.
stopped
=
stoplti
You make a voiceless sound by pushing air through your mouth. No
28
CHAPTER
2
hissed
=
hisslti
watched
=
wat&tl
washed
=
wash/t/
(b)
called
=
cawdl
rained
=
rainla
lived
=
liveid
robbed
=
robldl

ID
endings. (Chart
2-4)
Directions:
Practice saying these words. Use them in sentences.
1.
answered
6.
finished
11.
worked
2. arrived
7.
fixed 12. invited
3.
continued
8.
helped
13.
suggested
4.
ended
9.
looked
14.
smelled
5.
explained
10.
planned

(a)
smile smiling
smiled
hope
hoping hoped
helping helped
learn learning learned
NO (c) rain
raining rained
heat heating heated
YES
ONE-SYLLABLE VERBS
(4 stop
stopping stopped
plan planning planned
lW0-SYLLABLE
VERBS
NO visiting visited
offering offered
YES
(0
pref+
preferring preferred
admit
admitting admitted
(g) play
leg
played
enjoy enlww enjoyed
(h)

If
the verb has one syllable
and ends in one vowel
+
one consonant, double the
consonant to make the
-ing
or
-ed
form.'
If the first syllable of
a
two-
syllable verb is stressed, do
not double the consonant.
If the second syllable of a
two-syllable verb is suessed,
double the consonant.
If
the verb ends in a vowel
+
y,
keep the
y.
Do not
change the
-y
to
4.
If

double
"w"
m
"x":
may
mowing,
maurd,j%%,/i+ing,fi*sd