Questions in present tense (2) - 77

Questions in Present Tense - 2

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Subject, Verb, helping verb, First, second and Third persontypes.
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Present Tense is used to express
1. Universal truth/facts
e.g. The water boils at 100C

2. What is taking place at the moment (But not continuous action),

   e.g. There he catches the ball.
Here she comes.     

3. To express habits,

e.g. She visits church every day.

He reads news paper every morning.

4. To express future actions,

e.g. U.K. Goes to polls next year.

The president arrives tomorrow.

5. During narratives and commentaries,

e.g. Now the hero picks up the sword.

Snow white hides behind the bush.

The captain retires the first player.

Making wh questions in Present Tense (With different subjects)

The question  which requires full answer is called wh question

e.g. Where do you live?  I live in Texas.

Wh  question pattern (This pattern needs wh word  + helping verb do/does for making questions)

Person      Singular                  Plural

First          How do + I                    how do + we

Second     How do + you               How do + you

Third        How does + He/she/it     How does + they

NOTE:  He/She includes all singular nouns. It includes, collective nouns, abstract nouns etc. They include all

plural nouns.

Making Wh questions in Present Tense (With different subjects)

The questions for which requires full answer by the listener is called wh question.

e.g. Who is that man?

He is the CEO of this company.

Wh  question pattern (This pattern needs wh question word + helping verb do/does for making questions)

Wh = What, when, where, why, which, how, how much, how many, how far etc.

Person      Singular                              Plural

First         How + do + I                          How +  do + we

Second   How do + you                        How do  + you

Third       How does + He/she/it      How do + they

NOTE:  He/She includes all singular nouns. It includes, collective nouns, abstract nouns etc. They include all  plural nouns.

When do you visit your parents? Once in a week.

How do you open this door? By pressing the first button.

Why do we need this?

How much does it cost? How much does it costs?

Where does she live? Where does she lives.

How do you know Clara? She is my classmate.

Where do you go this evening?

Why do you ask  this question?

What does the manager want?

What does Delphi mean? What does Delphi means?

Where do you stay? At Blue hills.

How do you manage this situation?

How long do we have  to wait?

Who do you want to talk to?

Where does she want to go to?

What dos she want? What does she wants?

What time does the president come? What time does the president comes?

Making question with wh question word as a subject

What type of PC last longer?

How many employees work here?

Which costs more, this one or that one?

What happened to you? Nothing.

How much water has gone waste? Not much. 

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Questions in present tense (1) - 76

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Subject, Verb, helping verb, First, second and Third persontypes.
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Present Tense is used to express
1. Universal truth/facts
e.g. The water boils at 100C

2. What is taking place at the moment (But not continuous action),
e.g. There he catches the ball.
Here she comes.

3. To express habits,
e.g. She visits church every day.
He reads news paper every morning.

4. To express future actions,
e.g. U.K. Goes to polls next year.
The president arrives tomorrow.

5. During narratives and commentaries,
e.g. Now the hero picks up the sword.
Snow white hides behind the bush.
The captain retires the first player.

Making yes/no questions in Present Tense (With different subjects)
The questions for which the answer is either yes/no are called yes/no questions
e.g. Are you Jim? Yes I am.

Yes/no question pattern (This pattern needs helping verb do/does for making questions)

Person      Singular                  Plural
First          Do + I                           Do + we
Second    Do + you                     Do + you
Third       Does + He/she/it     Do + they

NOTE:  He/She includes all singular nouns. It includes, collective nouns, abstract nouns etc. They include all
plural nouns.

Do you play table tennis? Yes I do./ No I don’t.
Do they know French? Yes they do./No they don’t.
Do I have fever doctor? Yes you do./No you don’t.
Do we have English Class today? Yes you do./No you don’t. or Yes we do.? No we don’t
Does she have any work today? Yes she does./No she doesn’t.
Does she has any work today?
Does John go to the school regularly? (Yes he does./No he doesn’t)
Does John goes to the school regularly?
Does this train stop at Green hills? Yes it does./No it doesn’t.
Do your parents live in Sydney? Yes they do./ No they don’t
Does your sister work in City Bank? No she doesn’t./ She works in State Bank.

In casual talks do/does is omitted. These type of questions are called declarative questions
You work in Air Malaysia?
She goes to College every week?
They work hard?
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Adding 's' to a verb - 75

               Adding 's' to a verb

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When we speak, we speak about something or someone (person, weather, news etc.) This someone/something is called Subject. A subject has three forms namely First person, Second person and Third person. (Person includes living/non livings and plurals).  The list of the subjects is endless so we use subject pronoun instead of using the subject for convenience.                                                                                                                     

Conversion of subject to Subject pronoun 

Father (subject) = he (pronoun
Mother = she
Teacher = he/she
President = he/she
Manager = he/she
Customer = he/she Path
Brother = he
Clerk = he/she
Driver = he/she
Friend = he/she
Students = he/she
Machine = it
Animal = it
Pain = it
Crowd = it
Team= it
Nation = it
Audience = it
Chairs = they
Customers = they
Earth = it
Sky = it


FIRST SECOND AND THIRD PERSON
The speaker is the First person.
The listener is the Second person.
The person/thing about which the speaker or listener talks about is called Third person.

Look at these sentences
David and Shane work in a bank.
Jim works in a store.


NOTE:
‘s’ is added to a verb , when the verb is used in present tense form  with the third person.  Jim is the third person (he), so ‘s’ is added to the verb work. ( the verb work is in present form, it’s past form is worked and past participle form is also worked)


e.g. verb = work
Person          Singular                 Plural
First                  I work                      we work     
Second            You work                You work
Third                He/she/it works   They work


MORE SENTENCES
She walks faster than her friend.
They work from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Shane watches TV in the evening.
The plane lands safely.
She always skips breakfast,
They never miss lunch.
It (machine) runs for 30 hours continuously.
Australia (Team) loses to England (Team) in at Sydney.
The crowd gathers near presidential palace.
I work in a College, my sister works in a Law firm.
I study in a business school, my friend studies in a law school.
This shop opens at 10 in the morning.   

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Apologizing expressions -74

         Apologizing expressions

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Tendering an apology and its response

I am sorry If I had hurt you.

Not at all.

I am sorry for that.

That’s alright./it’s O.K

O.K. I am  sorry Jane. Let’s forget about it.

O.K. now but ……..

I am  terribly sorry.

Not at all.

Sorry Shane, will you forgive me?

(Just nodding the head with a mild smile)

I am  sorry, I just cracked a joke.

Don’t worry  forgot about that.

I am sorry sir.

Please be cautious/careful/attentive hereafter.

Sorry, I am late.

O.K get on/carry on, try to be on time hereafter/in future

I am very sorry for ………

Don’t worry, It’s O.K.

I am extremely sorry for ……….

Don’t feel bad about it, it happens.

Sorry it was not intentional.

That’s alright.

Sorry I am late again.

O.K. now please don’t let it happen again.

Please excuse me for….

It’s quite natural, forget about it.

Sorry it’s entirely my fault/mistake.

Well, it Doesn’t matter now, but please …..

Sorry,  I occupied your seat.

It’s alright, It happens in all parties.

APOLOGIZING DIPLOMATICALLY

I apologize for the delay, I hope you would forgive me.

I am sorry for  my remarks on immigrants, I didn’t mean to hurt anyone.

I take back my words. I am extremely sorry, if my words have hurt anyone.

I tender my unconditional apology for expressing my views on foreigners. I didn’t mean to hurt non European workers.

I strongly regret for the excesses committed by our Security forces during the occupation.

My sincere apology to the people who suffered the recent hurricane . I assure them of  more food supplies and medicines within twenty four hours.

    

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Past & Past participle -73

        Past and Past participle                                            

INTRODUCTION                                                    

We often tend to get confused with past and participle verbs usage, because  the regular verbs have same form in past and past participle category. The verb come takes present form in past participle category .

Look at the Following verb forms

Present	Past	Past part.	Type
Call	called	called	regular
Walk	walked	walked	regular
Go	went	gone	irregular
Sea	saw	seen	irregular
come	came	come	exceptional

Look at the following sentences

1. She has visited the White house.

2. She visited the White house last week.

3. She has seen the white house.

In the first sentence the verb visited represents past participle verb form. In the second sentence the verb visited represents past verb form. In the third sentence the verb seen represents past participle form. It’s very important to distinguish past and past participle form of the verb (Visited), How can we identify this distinction?

RULE

With the helping verbs like have/has/had we must always use  past participle verb

e.g.

She has gone to the bank.

We have seen him just now.

She had completed her work.

Have you seen him?

Has she attended the meeting?

Verb Come

She has come from California.

She came yesterday.

She had come before the chief guest arrived.

They have come to meet the Chairman.  

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have as possessive -72

                have as possessive

                                                 

The Term Possessive in grammar means that something belongs to someone or something.

e.g. We have an apartment in New York.

         The apartment has a swimming pool.

Rule

Person	Singular	Plural
First	I have	We have
Second	You have	You have
Third	He has She has It has	They have They have They have

NOTE:

He/she include all singular nouns (Personal), pronouns etc. it includes collective nouns abstract nouns, common nouns proper nouns etc.

In Britain have got is mostly used compared to have. 

                                                             have/ has with  I/we/you/they

Five types of spoken sentences - Pattern

I/we/you/they + have  a book  - (Simple sentence/message/news etc.)

I/we/you/they + don't have a book   (Negative sentence)

Do +I/we/you/they + have  a book ?('yes/no' question)

Don't I/we/you/they + have a book?('yes/no' question)

What  + do + I/we/you/they + have ? ('wh' question)

NOTE: In fast speech 'do'  is dropped. 'Any' is used instead of 'a' in declarative question.

                                                       have/has with he/she/it

Five types of spoken sentences - pattern

He/she/it + has  a book. (Simple sentence/message/news etc.)

He/she/it + doesn't  have a book (Negative sentence)

Does + He/she/it + have a book? ('yes/no' question)

Doesn't  he/she/it + have a book? ('yes/no' question)

What  + does + he/she/it  + have? ('wh' question).

More examples

She has a very fair look.

The new government has a narrow majority.

I have three brothers.

We have a French  maid.

She didn’t have a job last year. She didn’t had a job last year.

Do you have some money?

Does she have a secure job?

The mountain has a big cave.

Do you have some time to spare?

Does this building have good foundation/base?

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Have been in talks - 71

              have been in talks

                             

Conversation – have been Structure -  wh question(What is wh question?Click Grammarmail.com 

RULE 
Where have + I/ we/ you/ they  +  been ( They includes all plural nouns, pronouns and things   in plural forms.)

Where has he/she/it + been ( He and She include all singular nouns and pronouns, it includes  

all collective nouns and things.)

Two Friends (A and B)  meet each other – Conversation follows.

A. It’s good to see you again. Where have you been lately?

A. I am happy to seen you again. Where have you been since March?

A. We are glad to seen you. Where have you been these days?

A. It’s wonderful to meet you again.  Where have you been since we left the College/School?

A. It’s so exciting to seen you again Joe. Where have you been for the last two months?

    

        

NOTE: Slanting letters sentences are not part of the have been structure.

For is used when some quantity of time is referred.

Since is used when we refer particular time in the past.

Response to the above statements (with have been)

B. I have been to Alaska.

B. I have been busy with the new business.

B. I have been involved with my company’s annual financial audit.

Response  to the above statements (without  have been)

I was busy with extra work.

I was busy with my new job.

I was at my hometown with my family.

I had to clear some  important files in my office.

Sentences with has been structure.

Where has he been in the morning?

He has been to the post office.

Where has she been last week?

She has been to Berlin?

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RULE - 
have + I/ we/ you/ they  +  been ( They includes all plural nouns pronouns and things in  plural forms.)

has + he/she/it + been ( He and She include all singular nouns and pronouns, it includes all  

collective nouns and things.)

Have you been to Rome? Yes,  twice.

Have you ever been to Paris ? Yes, once.

Have you ever been to the White House? No, not even once.

Have you been to Sydney recently?  No, I haven’t.

Has she been to the bank this morning? I think she has. 

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