time words

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Time-words and auxiliary verbs

Time words

• What are time words?

Time words

• What are time words?
• Time words tell you about when something happens but it is one word

Time words

• What are time words?
• Time words tell you about when something happens but it is one word
• We put them in front of the main verb or after a form of to be. One word, different rule!
  

Time words

• What are time words?
• Time words tell you about when something happens but it is one word
• We put them in front of the main verb or after a form of to be. One word, different rule!
  
• Examples;
  

Time words

• What are time words?
• Time words tell you about when something happens but it is one word
• We put them in front of the main verb or after a form of to be. One word, different rule!
  
• Examples; never, often, sometimes, rarely, usually, always
  

The verb to be

I am

You / They are

He / She / It is

We / You / They are

I

hard for my exams.

study

always

Do you

to him like that?

usually

speak

He

on time on Mondays.

is

never

chess.

She

sometimes

plays

Auxiliary verbs

• I have been practising really hard.

Auxiliary verbs

• I have been practising really hard.
• Auxiliary verbs (hulpwerkwoorden) are all the verbs in the sentence besides the main verb (zelfstandig naamwoord)
• They do not express any action, they are there to indicate in what tense the sentence is.
  

Examples

Examples

To be

To have

To do

Can

May

Must

Will

Shall

Verb                     The forms

am, is, are, was, were, been

have, has, had

do, does, did, done

can, could

may, might

must

will, would

shall, should

My little brother was snoring all night long.

1. snoring
2. was

She will have been studying for a month at that point.

1. have
2. have been
3. will have been
4. studying

I will eat a cake tonight.

1. will
2. eat

Sadly, our dinner has been eaten by the dog.

1. eaten
2. has
3. been eaten
4. has been

Tessa                             too busy                   her mother at the shop.

is

sometimes

to help

Jerry                                                                  extra laundry because of his messy dog.

is

always

going

to be

doing