Verb to do
Exercise with verb to do
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Read moreWe use the past simple when the action and time period are finished. So we can say: I went to America in 1990. If we don’t say when it happened we cannot use the past simple and we have to use the present perfect. The past tense of regular verbs is easy – we add –ed. Present simple Past Simple walk work […]
Read moreWe use the past perfect when there are 2 actions in the past. The first action is the past perfect and the second action is the past simple. I had had breakfast before I went to work. He had already finished school by the time he was 16. We went to Wembley last night. We had never been there before. Look at the construction: Subject had past participle […]
Read moreWe use the past perfect continuous when there are 2 actions in the past. The first action lasted a long time and we use the past perfect continuous to describe it. The action stops when the second action takes place. For the second action we use the past simple. I had been living in Italy for 3 years before I went to Rome. […]
Read morePhrasal Verb shoot down Definition to shoot something or someone and cause it/him/her to fall Examples “Shot down in a blaze of glory“, Jon Bon Jovi, Blaze of Glory The helicopter was shot down over enemy territory. Verb and preposition separated? Can be separated Normal or Informal Normal American / British /International International Regular / Irregular Shoot is an irregular […]
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