What is a Sentence? (4 Types of Sentences)
Sentences are groups of words that communicate a complete thought, and contain a subject and a predicate.
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What is Subject Verb Agreement?
Subject verb agreement is what it says: a verb and subject must agree in count/number. When the subject is singular, the verb follows and is singular (and vice versa).
What is the Past Tense? (Forms of the Past Tense)
The past tense is divided into 4 groups, all of which depict an action as occuring at a point or period of time in the past.
What is the Present Tense? (Forms of the Present Tense)
Want to make tense, sense? The present tense has 4 main forms: the present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous. Learn more about them, here.
When to Use ‘A’ or ‘An’ (What’s an Article?)
When to use a/an is determined by sound. Use ‘a’ when the noun starts with a consonant. Use ‘an’ when the noun begins with a vowel sound.
What’s Past Tense of Wake? Woke or Woken?
Wake (present tense) has two past verb forms: woke and woken. Woke is the simple past, and woken is the past participle (used with a helper verb).
Shook or Shaken: What’s the Past Tense of Shake?
Shake is the present tense. Shook is the simple past tense, and ‘had shaken’ is the past participle form of shake.
Showed or Shown? What’s the Past Tense of Show?
Show has three verb conjugations altogether: show, showed, and shown/showed (depending on UK/American English). Shown is the past participle of show.
What’s the Past Tense of Spring? Spring, Sprang, Sprung?
‘She sprang out of bed’, is the past tense. ‘She’d sprung out of bed and scraped her knee when she hit the floor,’ uses the participle, sprung.
Is it Swore or Sworn? What’s the Past Tense of Swear?
Swore is the simple past tense, whereas sworn is the past participle form of the present tense verb, swear.