The document discusses verbs and verb tenses. It defines verbs as words that express actions or states of being. It explains the different types of verbs including helping verbs, irregular verbs, and action verbs. The document also discusses verb tenses like present, past, and future tense. It provides examples of verbs used in different tenses. Additionally, it covers topics like forms of verbs, finding verbs in sentences, consistency in verb usage, and avoiding shifts in tense or voice when using verbs.

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Verb
Tense
Consistency
By
Miss CarMelle
Dawn Vasay
English
Practice
Teacher

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What do you know about
verbs?
• Verbs are words that expresses
actions.
kick
jump
Example:
*She will run in the incoming
Dumaguete Adventure
Marathon.

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Find the Verbs
• Wendy plays the French horn in her
school orchestra.
• Garfield dived into the dish of lasagna.
• Billows of smoke began to rise skyward.
• The defendant smirked at the judge.
• The average snowfall in these mountains
leaves an accumulation of two new feet of
powder.

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• Wendy plays the French horn in her
school orchestra.
• Garfield dived into the dish of lasagna.
• Billows of smoke began to rise
skyward.
• The defendant smirked at the judge.
• The average snowfall in these
mountains leaves an
accumulation of two new feet of
powder.

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Forms of Verbs:
Helping Verbs
Irregular Verbs
Action Verbs

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What else can a verb
do?
• Not all verbs show action.
• Verbs also refer to many of
the state of being as the
“helping verbs”

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Helping Verbs
Are
Were
Is
Am
Would be
Might be
Was
May be
Has been
Had been

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Examples of Tense with
“Helping Verbs"
• Present: The antibiotic is
effective.
• Past: The antibiotic was
• effective.
• Future: The antibiotic will be
effective.

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What do you know about the
tenses of the verbs?
• a form of a verb that shows the time of
happening in the sentence.
Example:
He called her last night.(past)
Raju talks to his friend about her.(present)

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Irregular verbs
•Irregular verbs are
verbs that changes its
spelling in every
tense.

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An irregular verb forms their past tense in
other ways, including: vowel changes
(begin, began), consonant changes (make,
made), vowel and consonant changes (see,
saw), and no changes (burst, burst).
A regular verb forms its past tense by
adding ed or d to the present form.
Example:
work = worked, breathe = breathed

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flies
flew
will fly

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Simple Tenses of the
Verb
Present
Past
Future

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Present Tense
The present tense shows
that the action occurs now.
Example:
The car door opens easily.

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Past Tense
• The past tense shows that the
action occurred in the past.
Example:
The car door opened, and the
woman stepped out.

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Future Tense
• The future tense shows that the
action will occur eventually.
Example:
The car door will open, and I will
jump out.

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Examples of Tense with
Action Verbs
Dance
(present)
Will dance
(future)
Danced
(past)

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Rules
for
Consistency

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1. Avoid unnecessary shifts in the
voice of the verbs.
Wrong:
Since he knew that ability to speak well before
a group is important, a course in public speaking
was taken by him.
Correct:
Since he knew that ability to speak well
before a group is important, he took a
course in public speaking.

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She took my sister’s old job.
*The subject, she, performed the
action in this sentence—she did the
taking.
In an active sentence, the subject
performs the action.
For Example:

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My sister’s old job was taken by
her.
*The subject, job, receives
the action in this sentence—it was
taken.
In a passive sentence, the subject is
acted upon.
For Example:

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Jill and I started the report, and it was
finished by another team.
Active
Passive
Jill and I started the report, and
another team finished it.
Active
Active

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2. Avoid the unnecessary shifts in
the tense of verbs.
Wrong:
She made some flippant remark and rushes
off down the hall.
Correct:
She made some flippant remark and
rushed off down the hall.

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Now
You
Try!

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Fix the sentences:
I told her that she can come over any
time and I will be happy to help her.
I told her that she could come
over any time and I would be happy
to help her.

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When we arrived, we are upset to
learn we have missed the party.
When we arrived, we were
upset to learn that we had
missed the party.

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When we arrived, we are upset to
learn we have missed the party.
When we arrived, we were
upset to learn that we had
missed the party.

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When Felicia saw the turtle trying to
cross the busy road, she leaped out of
her car and had carried the reptile to
safety at the other side.
When Felicia saw the turtle trying
to cross the busy road, she leaped
out of her car and carried the
reptile to safety at the other
side.

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Quiz
Direction: Change the bolded word into its
correct tense. Identify what tense is used in
the sentence. (Make sure that there is a
cnsistency between the verbs.
1. Jaemin catches the
ball and threw it to the
first base.

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2. Zarah plays the
guitar and sung
her favorite
song.

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3. My girlfriend
broke her leg,
so I help her get
around.

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4. Doctor Christian
Rey suggests bed rest
for Mark, who
suffered from a bad
cold.

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5. Elgen will
propose to Trishia.
Hopefully,
Trishia says
yes.

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Thousands of people will see the art exhibit by the time it closes.
6.The Generosity
students will see
the art exhibit by
the time it
closes.

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7. As Kent walks to
school, he
accidentally
bumped a lady .

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8. Scientists
predicted that
the sun will die
in the distant
future.

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9. Chris Wayne
wants to show his
friends the photos
he took last
summer.

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10.Christian's
friend tell him
that his pet dog
died.

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Thank You
Generosity
Students!