Quiz Tuesday April 9, 2013

 What you must know for the quiz tomorrow:

Modal Verbs

should, should not/shouldn't  p. 1-6   ADVICE  - polite

can, can not/cannot/can't      p. 6-9   ABILITY    PRESENT

could, could not/couldn't                                   PAST

could                                   p.11     SUGGEST AN ALTERNATIVE - POSSIBILITY in the FUTURE

Count and non count nouns    p. 15    COUNT and NONCOUNT NOUNS

Quantifiers                            p. 17-18
                                           p. 20 (a) and (b)

Grammatical tense and aspect: PRESENT PERFECT  p. 57-59

When do we use the present perfect?

1.    To talk about the past in a general time, NON-SPECIFIC.
        Ex.:  I have traveled to Mexico many times.

2.    A situation that began in the past and continues to the present, with FOR and SINCE.

        Ex.:  Ali and Yoko have known James for 2 years.  (They still know him.)
                for - an amount of time
                minute/s, hour/s, day/s, week/s, month/s, year/s, a long time, a short time, so long, etc.
                                               

                Ali and Yoko have known James since 2011.  (They still know him.)
                since - a specific time
                 since school began, since I was a baby, since I was 15, since 2006, since January, since November, since Monday, since they were married, since they bought the house, etc.


Verb forms you need to know for tomorrow:

base form	past	past participle
be	was, were	been
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bring	brought	brought
buy	bought	bought
come	came	come
cost	cost	cost
cut	cut	cut
do	did	done
drink	drank	drunk
eat	ate	eaten
forget	forgot	forgotten
get	got	gotten
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
have	had	had
hurt	hurt	hurt
know	knew	known
make	made	made
meet	met	met
pay	paid	paid
put	put	put
read	read	read
sing	sang	sung
sit	sat	sat
sleep	slept	slept
think	thought	thought
understand	understood	understood
write	wrote	written