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Peter_fra_OzFriday 29th of October 2004 11:51:01 PM
ESL Learning Game - This game be similar tocurrent Phrasebase games but will help you practice English verb tenses.

A simple understanding of English tenses is required:

[b]Present Tense[/b]
I do do, I do
[b]Present Continuous Tense[/b]
I am doing, I am doing tomorrow
[b]Present Perfect Tense[/b]
I have done
[b]Present Perfect Continuous Tense[/b]
I have been doing

[b]Past Tense[/b]
I did do, I did
[b]Past Continuous Tense[/b]
I was doing
[b]Past Perfect Tense[/b]
I had done
[b]Past Perfect Continuous Tense[/b]
I had been doing

[b]Future Tense[/b]
I will do
[b]Future Continuous Tense[/b]
I will be doing
[b]Future Perfect Tense[/b]
I will have done
[b]Future Perfect Continuous Tense[/b]
I will have been doing


An English word will be given and a tense will be given.

You are to make a sentence in English using the given word and tense.

When you complete the writing of your sentence, you will pick a new word and a new tense for the next person.


[b]Example[/b]
[quote]
.
.
.
New word: Pizza
New tense: Future Perfect Tense[/quote]

I will have eaten my pizza by the time you arrive.

New word: Cat
New tense: Present Continuous Tense
AnyaSaturday 30th of October 2004 12:09:18 AM
- I was petting a cat that had wondered in through the screened door.

New word: car
New tense: Present Continuous
Peter_fra_OzWednesday 10th of November 2004 12:40:53 PM
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Be careful, the car in front of us is driving dangerously.
(subject + auxiliary verb + main verb)



New word: Vacation
New tense: Future Perfect Continuous Tense


neil123Wednesday 12th of January 2005 05:14:03 PM
- By the end of the decade I will have been going on vacation to Tibet for twenty seven years.
New word: pomegranate
New tense: will (for current habits)
RoohiSaturday 15th of January 2005 10:48:20 AM
- [quote][i]Originally posted by Neil[/i]


By the end of the decade I will have been going on vacation to Tibet for twenty seven years.
New word: pomegranate
New tense: will (for current habits)[/quote]

I will surely like to eat pomegranate

New word: Teenybopper
New tense:Past Perfect Continues
DawnlorraineFriday 03rd of June 2005 03:28:46 PM
- They had been trying to find out what a teenybopper is.



breach
past perfect continuous tense


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