Atc practist test english5 ppt

The present tense of regular verbs is formed as follows:

SINGULAR PLURAL

first person (I/we) base form (believe) base form (believe)

second person (you) base form (believe) base form (believe)

third person (he/she/it, they) base form + -s/-es (believes) base form (believe)

3. Present participle: the verb form that describes what is happening now. It ends in -ing and is accom￾panied by a helping verb such as is.

Jessica is doing a difficult yoga pose.

Stocks are falling again in response to another corporate scandal.

NOTE: Words that end in -ing don’t always function as verbs. Sometimes they act as nouns and are

called gerunds. They can also function as adjectives (called participial phrases).

Present participle (verb): He is loading the boxes into the car.

Gerund (noun): This parking area is for loading only.

Participial phrase (adjective): The loading dock is littered with paper.

(You will learn more about gerunds later in this section.)

4. Past tense: the verb form that expresses what happened in the past.

It snowed yesterday in the mountains.

I felt better after I stretched and did some deep breathing.

5. Past participle: the verb form that describes an action that happened in the past and is used with a

helping verb, such as has, have, or had.

It has not snowed all winter.

I have waited as long as I can.

–ACT ENGLISH TEST PRACTICE–

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