Uses of Tenses Present, Past, and Future Tenses Each of the six tenses has its own uses. Present Tense The present tense is used to express an action or a state of being that is occurring now, to show habitual or customary action, to con…
Tenses The tense of a verb indicates the time of the action or of the state of being expressed by the verb. 6 Tenses Each verb in English has six tenses: present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect. These six …
Gerunds and Gerund Phrases Gerunds A gerund is a verb form ending in –ing that is used as a noun . The –ing form of a verb can be used as its present participle , functioning as an adjective . The –ing form can also be part of a verb …
Participles and Participial Phrases Participles A participle is a verb form that can be used as an adjective. There are two kinds of participles: present participles , which always end in –ing , and past participles . Regular verbs have pa…
Summary of Parts of Speech SUMMARY OF PARTS OF SPEECH Part of Speech Use Examples noun names Max has an idea for our party on Valentine's Day . pronoun takes the place of a noun or another pronoun …
Prepositional Phrases A prepositional phrase includes a preposition, the object of the preposition, and any modifiers of that object.
Predicate Adjectives A subject complement is a complement that identifies or modifies the subject of a linking verb. A predicate adjective is a type of subject complement. A predicate adjective is an adjective that is in the predicate an…
Predicate Nominatives A subject complement is a complement that identifies or modifies the subject of a linking verb. REMINDER Some common linking verbs include forms of be (such as am, is, was, were, being, will be, and have been), app…
Direct and Indirect Objects Direct Objects A direct object is a complement that tells who or what receives the action of a verb or shows the result of the action. REMINDER A complement is a word or word group that completes the meaning of…
