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Practical English Grammar

The verb be

Forms of the verb to be are used very frequently in the English language. It is very useful to
know all of the verb’s forms. Here is a list to help you along with the verb’s tenses.

Present tense: The action either exists or is happening now.

	Singular	Plural
First person	I am happy.	We are there now.
Second person	You are tall.	You are here with us.
Third person	(He, She, It) is in the room.	They are laughing.

Past tense: The action was started and completed already.

	Singular	Plural
First person	I was there last night.	We were happy.
Second person	You were in the recital.	You were excited.
Third person	(He, She, It) was there.	They were ecstatic.

Future tense: The action will or shall occur later.

	Singular	Plural
First person	I will (or shall) be there.	We will (or shall) be there.
Second person	You will (or shall) be selected.	You will (or shall) be here.
Third person	(He, She, It) will (or shall) be on the panel.	They will (or shall) be with us.

Past perfect tense: The action ended before another past action or state of being.

	Singular	Plural
First person	I had sat in that room.	We had been friends.
Second person	You had swum in that lake.	You had helped my aunt.
Third person	(He, She, It) had been there.	They had sung with them.

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Notes

Practical English Grammar - Notes

1. Italics Hyphens and Brackets

2. compound subjects part two

3. Quotation Marks Part Three

4. Sound a like words Part Four

5. complete and simple subjects

6. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

7. Second Capitalization List

8. irregular verbs part two

9. the object of the preposition

10. Active and passive voices

11. complete and simple predicates

12. the noun

13. the noun clause

14. The possessive case

15. agreement involving prepositional phrases

16. the indirect object

17. Confusing usage words part six

18. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

19. the prepositional phrase

20. Confusing usage words part three

21. More Apostrophe Situations

22. Quotation Marks Part Two

23. the correlative conjunction

24. the adverb

25. Confusing usage words part seven

26. the direct object

27. the adjective phrase

28. Confusing usage words part four

29. Sound alike words part one

30. regular verb tenses

31. compound subject and compound predicate

32. Transitive and intransitive verbs

33. The Semicolon

34. The verb be

35. the interjection

36. the adjective

37. Confusing usage words part two

38. Sound a like words Part Two

39. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks

40. Commas Part Three

41. First Capitalization List

42. More subject verb agreement situations

43. types of sentences by purpose

44. compound complex sentences

45. subject and verb agreement

46. pronouns and their antecedents

47. types of nouns

48. the verb

49. The possessive case and pronouns

50. the appositive