Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksExport to PDFBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ======Definition of a verb====== ========== <html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>A <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">verb</span> is a word we use to describe an action, state or occurrence. Every <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">subject</span> in a <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">sentence </span>must have a verb:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 26.05pt 0pt 1cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Jenny <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">is</span> a teacher. She <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">lives</span> in London with her husband, Bill, and their two children. Bill <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">is</span> a musician. He <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">plays</span> the guitar in a band. Their daughter <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">goes </span>to school and their son <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">is studying</span> medicine at King's College. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(255, 51, 153); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-alt: solid #4F81BD 1.0pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""> <tbody> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="187" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt medium medium 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 140.1pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p></td> <td width="429" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 322pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Examples</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="187" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 140.1pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Auxiliary verbs</span></b></p></td> <td width="429" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 322pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>be, have, do </span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td width="187" style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 140.1pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Stative verbs</span></b></p></td> <td width="429" style="border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 322pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>think, believe, need, want, like, hate, consider</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td width="187" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 140.1pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Active verbs</span></b></p></td> <td width="429" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 322pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>run, sit, drink, play, go, make, grow, cook, fall</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;"> <td width="187" style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 140.1pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Transitive verbs</span></b></p></td> <td width="429" style="border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 322pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>buy, eat, find, raise, give, send, see, like, want, have</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;"> <td width="187" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 140.1pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Intransitive verbs</span></b></p></td> <td width="429" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 322pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>wait, rise, sit, happen, occur, complain, lie</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;"> <td width="187" style="border-width: medium medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 140.1pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Phrasal verbs</span></b></p></td> <td width="429" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 322pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>carry on, get by, take off, get away with, look forward to</span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b> </p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>When we put all these together, we can get verbs of many parts: </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 33.1pt 0pt 1cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Jenny <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">should have been picking up </span>the children from school but she <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">was</span> in the kitchen <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">drinking</span> tea. Bill <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">ought to have realised </span>that Jenny <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">was</span> forgetful and <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">got </span>them himself but he <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">was </span>too distracted and <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">felt </span>quite tired. He <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">sat </span>in the garden for a few hours before he <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">became</span> aware of a lack of cooking <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">going on </span>in the kitchen and a lack of homework <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">being done </span>in the study.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 33.1pt 0pt 1cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br></span></b></p></html> =====Bare infinitives===== <html><p> <b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>A bare infinitive is the <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">infinitive</span> of a verb without 'to'.</span></b></p><p> <b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The bare infinitive is used:</span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>after the object following feel, have, hear, let, listen to, make, see and watch. [You might see this referred to as the 'causative'.] </span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br></span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Jenny <u>hears</u> the children <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">laugh</span> as they play.</span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I <u>saw</u> him <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">leave</span> five minutes ago.</span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>My boss <u>lets</u> me <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">finish</span> early on Fridays.</span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>You can't <u>make</u> him <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">do</span> it if he doesn't want to. </span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 1em 0px 0pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>However, not in the passive voice where the infinitive is used.</span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 1em 0px 0pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> He's seen <u>to leave</u> at 5.00 every day.</span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>He can't be made <u>to do</u> it.</span></b><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p><p> <b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br></span></b></p><p><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>after <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">modal auxiliary verbs</span>:<span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);"> </span> </span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 29.05pt 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>We <u>must</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">go</span> to the airport now or we'll be late.</span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 29.05pt 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Jeremy <u>can</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">take</span> the minutes of the meeting; he is good at shorthand.</span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 29.05pt 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I <u>can't</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">come</span> to the cinema; I have to baby sit. </span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 29.05pt 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>You <u>should</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">stay</span> at home and rest when you are sick.</span></b></p><p> <b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br></span></b></p><p><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>after 'needn't' but not 'need':<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></b><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br></span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>You <u>needn't</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">go</span> to Paris after all; Mary is going instead.</span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>You <u>need</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">to go</span> to Paris; Mary can't go in your place.</span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br></span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br></span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>after expressions such as 'would rather' and 'had better': </span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br></span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I<u>'d rather</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">have</span> coffee than tea, thank you.</span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 59.7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>You<u>'d better</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">come</span> in and sit down; I have some bad news.</span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 1em 0px 3pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></p><p style="background: white; margin: 1em 0px 3pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font face="arial" size="2">Sometimes we can choose between the infinitive and the bare infinitive. </font></span></b></p><p style="background: white; margin: 1em 0px 3pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><strong><font face="arial" size="2"> </font></strong></p><span style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><p style="background: white; margin: 1em 0px 3pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><font face="arial"><font size="2"><strong>After 'help' + object </strong><span style='line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><strong>Can you help me (to) find my glasses?</strong></span></font></font></p><p style="background: white; margin: 1em 0px 3pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font face="arial"><font size="2"><strong>After 'do' </strong><span style='line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><strong>I don't know why he is angry. All I did was (to) borrow the car.</strong></span></font></font></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 1em 0px 3pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><strong><span style='line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style='line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><font face="arial" size="2"><span style='line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'>With two infinitives connected by 'and', 'or', 'except', 'but', 'than' or 'as', it is common to omit the second 'to'.</span></font></span></span></strong></p><p style="background: white; margin: 1em 0px 3pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><strong><font size="2"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;'><font face="arial"> I'd prefer to stay than (to) go. Would you like to eat now or (to) wait until after the meeting?</font></span></span></span> </font></strong></p></span><p style="background: white; margin: 1em 0px 3pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><font size="2"><br></font></p></html> =====Auxiliary verbs===== <html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The verbs 'to be', 'to have', and 'to do' can be used as main verbs with specific meanings: </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I <u>do</u> my e-learning when I'<u>m</u> at work and I <u>have</u> some free time.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>We can also use them as auxiliaries with a second, main verb:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <table class="MsoTableLightListAccent1" style="margin: auto auto auto 12.5pt; border: currentColor; border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-alt: solid #5B9BD5 1.0pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: -1; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="158" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt medium medium 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.8pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 5;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1;'>Uses</span></b></p></td> <td width="409" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 306.45pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1;'>Examples</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0;"> <td width="158" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.8pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Negative sentences</span></b></p></td> <td width="409" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 306.45pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">didn't</span> <u>do</u> my e-learning yesterday because I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">didn't</span> <u>have</u> enough time.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="158" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.8pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Questions</span></b></p></td> <td width="409" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 306.45pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Do</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> you <u>do</u> a lot of research?</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Don't </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>you <u>like</u> coffee?</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td width="158" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.8pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Continuous tenses</span></b></p></td> <td width="409" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 306.45pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">m</span> <u>working</u> from home this week.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>He <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">wasn't</span> <u>concentrating</u>.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td width="158" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.8pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Perfect tenses</span></b></p></td> <td width="409" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt medium medium; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 306.45pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">haven't</span> <u>had</u> any free time today - I'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">ve</span> <u>been</u> so busy.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">had</span> <u>had</u> so many meetings by Wednesday that I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">hadn't</span> <u>done</u> any other work! </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"> <td width="158" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.8pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Passives</span></b></p></td> <td width="409" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 306.45pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>It'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">s</span> <u>made</u> of wood.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>She <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">was </span><u>employed</u> by a big, international company.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"> <td width="158" valign="top" style="border-width: medium medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.8pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Emphatic 'do'</span></b></p></td> <td width="409" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 306.45pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>We <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">did </span><u>enjoy</u> the seminar!</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Note that </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style='font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'> </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Sometimes the auxiliary verb happens to be the same as the main verb.</span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style='font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'> </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Unlike <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">modal auxiliary verbs</span>, these do not have a specific meaning but are necessary to form these structures. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b> </p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Here are some more examples:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <table style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""> <tbody> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 154pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: rgb(237, 235, 235); padding: 0cm; border: 1pt solid gray; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-border-alt: solid gray .75pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes;"><img width="447" height="599" id="212" style="width: 114px; height: 151px;" alt="man, in bed, a cold, flu, ill" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/212_93e92e446ddde57eddcb1afb1fbdfee8.jpg"></span></p> <td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 154.05pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: auto auto 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;" cxspmiddle=""><span><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(237, 235, 235);"><img width="282" height="424" id="542" style="width: 107px; height: 134px;" alt="Boy cookie bake cuisiner kitchen cuising" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/542_a3a854c6112a0bbdc6c7f816353172b5.jpg"></font></span></p></td> <td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 154.05pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: rgb(237, 235, 235); padding: 0cm; border: 1pt solid gray; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-border-alt: solid gray .75pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><img width="284" height="281" id="330" style="width: 112px; height: 127px;" alt="colleagues, office, talk, chat, break" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/330_18c30ed1c90726bbd134b460405f270c.jpg"></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 154pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: auto auto 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;" cxspmiddle=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>He <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">didn't </span>go to work yesterday.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span></b></p></td> <td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 154.05pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>He'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">d</span> eaten a biscuit.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span></b></p></td> <td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 154.05pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">Have</span> you met the new boss yet?"</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>"No, I'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">m</span> meeting him tomorrow."</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 154pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: rgb(237, 235, 235); padding: 0cm; border: 1pt solid gray; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-border-alt: solid gray .75pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><img width="423" height="283" id="2625" style="width: 117px; height: 99px;" alt="steak beef restaurant food beouf " src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/2625_8c5b55dc16748421678892d26e0cbd80.jpg"></span></b></p></td> <td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 154.05pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: rgb(39, 85, 109); font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="278" height="207" id="2743" style="width: 140px; height: 96px;" alt="docks port ship crane" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/2743_6ab08516dc0e1601b3ebb4f60640ad93.png"></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span></b></p></td> <td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 154.05pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: rgb(237, 235, 235); padding: 0cm; border: 1pt solid gray; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-border-alt: solid gray .75pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><img width="139" height="121" id="407" style="width: 109px; height: 88px;" alt="listen to music" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/407_6977dc0dd875b1f31ee1c2282663d884.png"></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 154pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>How </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>do</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> you like your steak?<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"></span></span></b></p></td> <td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 154.05pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The cargo <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">is </span>loaded onto the ships.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"></span></span></b></p></td> <td width="205" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 154.05pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: auto auto 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;" cxspmiddle=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>He <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">was </span>listening to classical music. He <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">does</span> love weekends!</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <p> </p></html> =====Stative and active verbs ===== <html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Stative verbs are different from active verbs because they describe a state, feelings or emotions. They are also used to refer to the senses, counting or measuring. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Most of the time, we avoid using continuous tenses with stative verbs:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">know</span> a lot of Japanese people. [not 'I'm knowing']</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>He <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">believes</span> in God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[not 'He's believing'] </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">m</span> a teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[not 'I'm being']</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>It <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">tastes</span> lovely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[not 'It's tasting']</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>It <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">weighs</span> 3kg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[not 'It's weighing']</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>although there are some exceptions which are discussed below.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Note that</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style='font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'> </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Some verbs have a stative meaning <u>and</u> an active meaning. When we use the active meaning, we can use a continuous tense.</span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><br></span></p><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><font face="Times New Roman"> <br></font></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><table width="803" style="margin: auto auto auto -8.8pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; width: 482pt; border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-alt: solid #4F81BD 1.0pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"><td width="414" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 248.1pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>Stative meaning</span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></td><td width="390" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 233.9pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>Active meaning</span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td width="414" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 248.1pt; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>I<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> have</span> two dogs and a cat. [possession]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>I'm having two dogs and a cat. [possession] </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">think</span> it's a good idea. [opinion]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>I'm thinking it's a good idea. [opinion]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>He <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">considers</span> it unnecessary to have another meeting this week. [opinion]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>He's considering it unnecessary to have </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>another meeting this week. [opinion]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></td><td width="390" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 233.9pt; background-color: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>We'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">re</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">having</span> lunch at the moment. [eating] </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>I'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">m</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">having</span> problems with my car. [experiencing]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>I'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">m</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">thinking</span> about what to have for dinner tonight. [an active process]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>He'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">s</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">considering</span> asking her to marry him. </span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'><font size="3">[an active process]</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><font face="Times New Roman"> <br></font></p></span><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><br></span></b></p> <p style="margin: auto auto 0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;" cxsplast=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style='font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'> </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We can use the stative verb 'to be' in the present continuous if we're talking about unusual or temporary behaviour:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>She's usually difficult to work with but, today, she'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">s</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">being</span> really kind and considerate - I don't know why!</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We can only do this if we are talking about behaviour or pretence:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>He'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">s being </span>polite. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><img width="38" height="29" id="39" style="width: 18px; height: 19px;" alt="green check mark, tick mark" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>He's being hungry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="36" height="37" id="40" style="width: 19px; height: 14px;" alt="red x, red cross" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></b></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style='font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'> </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Verbs like taste, see, hear, smell, sound etc. are more commonly used with simple tenses:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>It <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">tastes</span> delicious.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>It <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">smells</span> good.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>It <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">sounds</span> lovely.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>It <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">feels</span> soft.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>It <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">looks</span> wonderful.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 35.45pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>However we can also use the continuous when talking about current situations:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>You look nice today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>= You'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">re</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">looking</span> nice today</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Are</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> you <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">feeling</span> better today?</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The garden <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">is looking</span> lovely now that spring is here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>It'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">s</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">feeling</span> much softer now that I've washed it with Lenor. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style='font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'> </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Verbs related to counting and measuring such as 'contain', 'cost', 'hold', 'measure' and 'weigh' are usually used with simple tenses but some of these can also have an active meaning. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Compare the following:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <table class="MsoTableGrid" style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="272" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: 1pt solid windowtext; border-image: none; width: 203.85pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">weigh</span> 65kg. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p></td> <td width="302" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 8cm; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I'm weighing 65kg. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="36" height="37" id="40" style="width: 19px; height: 14px;" alt="red x, red cross" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></b></span></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="272" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 203.85pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">weigh</span> the sugar. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p></td> <td width="302" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 8cm; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">m weighing</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>*</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> the sugar. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td width="272" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 203.85pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The box <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">measures</span> 12cm x 8cm x 6cm. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p></td> <td width="302" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 8cm; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The box is measuring 12cm x 8cm x 6cm. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="36" height="37" id="40" style="width: 19px; height: 14px;" alt="red x, red cross" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></b></span></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td width="272" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 203.85pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>He <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">measures</span> the area of the room. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p></td> <td width="302" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 8cm; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>He'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">s measuring</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>*</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> the area of the room. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;"> <td width="272" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 203.85pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The report <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">includes</span> an introduction. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p></td> <td width="302" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 8cm; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The report is including an introduction.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;'> </span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="36" height="37" id="40" style="width: 19px; height: 14px;" alt="red x, red cross" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></b></span></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;"> <td width="272" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 203.85pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>He <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">includes</span> examples in his report. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p></td> <td width="302" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 8cm; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>He'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">s including</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>*</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> examples in his report. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;"> <td width="272" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 203.85pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The box <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">contains</span> chocolates. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p></td> <td width="302" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 8cm; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The box is containing chocolates. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="36" height="37" id="40" style="width: 19px; height: 14px;" alt="red x, red cross" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></b></span></span></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;"> <td width="272" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 203.85pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The police <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">contain</span> the crowd. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p></td> <td width="302" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 8cm; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The police <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">are containing</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>*</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> the crowd. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;"> <td width="272" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 203.85pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>This car <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">costs</span> €12,000. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p></td> <td width="302" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 8cm; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>This car is costing €12,000. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="36" height="37" id="40" style="width: 19px; height: 14px;" alt="red x, red cross" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="height: 19.85pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;"> <td width="272" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 203.85pt; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>His lifestyle <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">costs</span> him a lot of money. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p></td> <td width="302" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 8cm; height: 19.85pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 0pt 0cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>His lifestyle <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">is costing</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>*</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> him a lot of money. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>In the above examples where both the present simple and present continuous are correct, the difference is just the usual one for these tenses - facts and routines or something happening at the moment. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>* These verbs have a transitive meaning but some similar verbs don't have an alternative transitive meaning. For example:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The height of the building <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">equals</span> the length. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>[not 'is equalling']</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%; tab-stops: 10.0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>London <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">consists</span> of 25 boroughs. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>[not 'is consisting']</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>See also transitive and intransitive verbs below.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style='font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'> </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>In informal English, we sometimes break the rules of stative verbs:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>She's in Italy at the moment and she'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">s</span> lov<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">ing</span> it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="38" height="29" id="39" style="width: 18px; height: 19px;" alt="green check mark, tick mark" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%; mso-add-space: auto;" cxspmiddle=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>And sometimes, native English speakers break the rule in songs, poetry etc. or </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>because they enjoy playing with the language: </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%; tab-stops: 7.0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>"I'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">m</span> lov<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">in</span>' it."<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>[McDonald's slogan]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%; tab-stops: 7.0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>"I'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">m</span> need<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">ing</span> a cup of tea."<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>[used especially by some Irish speakers of English]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;'><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style='font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'> </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>The rules above all use the present simple and present continuous in the examples but the same rules apply when we choose between the past, perfect and future tenses. Here are some examples: </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I was considering his behaviour very rude. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="36" height="37" id="40" style="width: 19px; height: 14px;" alt="red x, red cross" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">considered</span> his behaviour very rude. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>[opinion] <span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="38" height="29" id="39" style="width: 18px; height: 19px;" alt="green check mark, tick mark" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span></span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>She's starting a new job next week; I'm sure she'll be loving it. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="36" height="37" id="40" style="width: 19px; height: 14px;" alt="red x, red cross" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I'm sure she'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">ll love </span>her new job. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[feelings and emotions] <span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="38" height="29" id="39" style="width: 18px; height: 19px;" alt="green check mark, tick mark" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span></span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">ve measured </span>the desks and found that some are wider than others. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>[transitive] <span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="38" height="29" id="39" style="width: 18px; height: 19px;" alt="green check mark, tick mark" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span></span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 2cm; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>We'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">ve been measuring </span>the desks and cabinets all morning - let's take a break. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>[transitive] <span lang="EN-US"><span lang="FR" style='color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes; text-underline: none;'><img width="38" height="29" id="39" style="width: 18px; height: 19px;" alt="green check mark, tick mark" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/39_db7196aad25f86da510b9bb08610a187.jpg"></span></span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'></span></b> </p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>Here are some more examples:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'> </span></b></p> <table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""> <tbody> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="308" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: 1pt solid windowtext; border-image: none; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><img width="499" height="332" id="1051" style="width: 137px; height: 94px;" alt="ville buildings" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1051_c86b6dd0fc41f620474c688bed3a2b7e.png"></span></b></p></td> <td width="308" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><img width="228" height="195" id="263" style="width: 115px; height: 98px;" alt="Sarah Prescott presentation graph woman smiling" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/263_bbf28b73224b3a013f6fc00f04a80ed3.jpg"></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="308" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>t's <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">costing </span>the company too much money to rent offices here - we <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">need</span> to find somewhere cheaper.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"></span></span></b></p></td> <td width="308" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>I always <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">include</span> charts and graphs in my reports.</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td width="308" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><img width="2176" height="1560" id="2782" style="width: 147px; height: 95px;" alt="croissant" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/2782_c6aa156aa595bc9ff829f8742c695505.jpg"></span></b></p></td> <td width="308" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style='color: rgb(42, 51, 51); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-no-proof: yes;'> <img width="2335" height="3504" id="552" style="width: 79px; height: 112px;" alt="boy, cowboy, fancy dress" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/552_e00550b69b8e77911c6e55b0851c070d.jpg"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td width="308" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>"These<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> smell </span>delicious. Can I have the recipe?" </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'>"Ok, although I never<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> weigh </span>the ingredients - I just estimate."</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span></b></p></td> <td width="308" valign="top" style="border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240) windowtext windowtext rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>My son'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">s</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">being</span> a cowboy in the school play.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span></b></p><br></html> =====Transitive and intransitive verbs ===== <html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>English verbs are either transitive or intransitive. In dictionaries, they are often marked with 'i' or 't' to indicate this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><!--?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(255, 51, 153); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-alt: solid #4F81BD 1.0pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" table=""> <tbody> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="308" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt medium medium 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Intransitive verbs</span></b></p></td> <td width="308" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Examples</span></b></p></td></tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="308" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt medium 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Subject + verb </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>They cannot take an object.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>They often involve movement or physical action and additional information using a prepositional or adverbial phrase.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p></td> <td width="308" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(240, 240, 240); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">waited</span>.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The bus <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">is</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">departing</span>.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">waited </span>ten minutes for a bus this morning.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The sun <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">rises</span> in the east.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>They'll <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">arrive</span> at about 8 o'clock.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>She loves <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">sitting</span> in the garden.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>It <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">happened</span> twice before she <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">complained</span>.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <br></p><table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-alt: solid #4F81BD 1.0pt;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="212" valign="top" style="background: rgb(46, 116, 181); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.1pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themeshade: 191;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Transitive verbs</span></b></p> </td> <td width="248" valign="top" style="background: rgb(46, 116, 181); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 148.85pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themeshade: 191;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'> </span></p> </td> <td width="291" valign="top" style="background: rgb(46, 116, 181); border-width: 1pt 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 174.35pt; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themeshade: 191;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Examples</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="212" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 127.1pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Subject + verb + object</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Some transitive verbs require an object. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Some can have two objects - a direct and indirect.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Some can be used with or without an object.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Others can be used transitively or intransitively depending on the context.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='color: red; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> </td> <td width="248" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 0px; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 148.85pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><strong>I want. </strong><img width="36" height="37" id="40" style="width: 16px; height: 13px;" alt="red x, red cross" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;'>They are raising</span></b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;'>.<img width="36" height="37" id="40" style="width: 16px; height: 13px;" alt="red x, red cross" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><strong>Can you repeat? </strong><img width="36" height="37" id="40" style="width: 16px; height: 13px;" alt="red x, red cross" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><strong>Yes, I like. </strong><img width="36" height="37" id="40" style="width: 16px; height: 13px;" alt="red x, red cross" src="http://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/40_457126aaf23a65c1331eea83d27fb7c4.jpg"></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;'> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>She <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">teaches</span>. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;'>They'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">re eating</span>.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>I'm going to <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">read</span>.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>The cup <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">broke</span>.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'>Trees</span></b><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;'> grow. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> </td> <td width="291" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 174.35pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">want </span><u>some chocolate</u>. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>They <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">are raising</span> <u>taxes</u>. </span></b><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Can you <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">repeat </span><u>that</u>, please? </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Yes, I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">like</span> <u>it</u>. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>She <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">lent </span><u>him</u> <u>some money</u>.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>He's <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">sending</span> <u>an email</u> to <u>his boss</u>.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>She <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">teaches</span> maths.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>They're <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">eating</span> cake.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I'm going to <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">read</span> a book about Spain.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">broke</span> the cup.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>We <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">grow</span> apple trees.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <br></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><br></span></b></p></html> [[en:grammar:home|{{ :file_-_back_3_.png?150 }}]]