EAP 140 AM - WANG, Lingshan - Week 1 2/2

          Today I reviewed something about verb tense.  There are four general verb tense, they are simple tenses, simple progressive forms, perfect tenses and perfect progressive forms.  Simple tenses usually use for general facts, such as Miss Li usually goes home by herself.  Here talks about a facts, so we just need to use simple present here.  Sometimes we want to talk about facts or states of being in the past, we also need to use simple tenses. For example, When my sister was young, she always played the doll which from my mom.  Sometimes people want to do some actions in the future or they want to promise something, we also can use simple tense, such as They will finish their homework before dinner.   We use will + base form here.

            Simple progressive forms are verbs tenses for continuing actions.  We can use am, is, and are add present participle to express some actions we do at the present time or some future action which we will do. For example, I am doing my blog job now, and I am going to find some picture for my blog.  For the past progressive, we just need to change the am, is and are to was and were, then add present participle.  We use this tense in two situations, the first one is an action happened at a specific time in the past and it in process; the second one is some things would be happened and they already had some plans, but they didn't happened.
e.g.
1) I was sleeping when she came back.
2) I was going to visit my friend in last summer, but I lost my job and didn't have extra money in last spring.