This volume links Cognitive Grammar explanations to the area of second-language learning and instructed grammar teaching. It represents a contribution to empirically based knowledge promoting a new perspective on the process of teaching and learning about English language structures. The theoretical part of the book provides an overview of the basic tenets of Cognitive Grammar, and discusses elements of the theory that are of crucial importance for understanding English tense and aspect structures. The second part brings together these two fields of study and tests a Cognitive Grammar approach to teaching tense and aspect to less advanced learners of English.
The second conditional describes an imaginary, impossible or unlikely situation in the present or future. The situation is unreal or hypothetical. The condition takes the past simple tense to reflect a distance from reality but the time is NOT in the past. When we use the verb "to be" as a main verb, the tense is the past simple, subjunctive mood and not the usual indicative mood....
*tense -a grammaticalcategory of verbsused to expressdistinctions of time
*present progressive, present progressive tense -a tenseused to expressactionthat is on-going at thetime of utterance
*past progressive, past progressive tense -a progressivetenseused to describeon-goingaction in thepast;"`Ihadbeenrunning' is an example of thepastprogressive"
*future progressive, future progressive tense -a progressivetenseused to expressactionthatwill be on-going in thefuture;"`Iwill be running' is an example of thefutureprogressive".
Learn English with Sentences: Irregular verbs in the past tense
English has many irregular verbs that are quite tricky to learn. I've written a collection of more than a thousand sentences and questions, using these irregular verbs. I've chosen verbs that are used a lot in everyday conversation so they will be beneficial to any learner of English. You'll find 55 irregular verbs written in the past tense in a range of different sentences and questions in the positive and negative using both the simple past and the compound past tense.
The English language has a large number of irregular verbs, approaching 200 in normal use—and significantly more if prefixed forms are counted. In most cases, the irregularity concerns the past tense (also called preterite) or the past participle.
