TALKING ABOUT PAST EVENTS/ ACTIVITIES

Chapter  9

TALKING ABOUT PAST EVENTS/ ACTIVITIES

This give a particular form of verb endings it is sometimes called PAST TENSE

Note: common adverb

Last week, yesterday etc.

Example:

My brother got married last Friday

Last week they closed the school

Expressing past activities

Tense is expressed by verbs. These verbs in the past tense be have with regular ending with-ed,-ed, and others behave with irregular ending. Example see-saw, get-got, cut-cut.

Adverbs that show past tense

1. Yesterday - I saw him yesterday 2. Last - we were at club last Friday 3. Ago - they met two years ago 4. Previous - she experienced this problem from the previous.

- Such characteristics of irregular verb also apply to helping or modal verbs

Note: the past tense of the above modal helping verbs are common in conditional clauses that is if……… then…………..

Structure

Past perfect tense

Format

Subject + had + verb in participle

Examples:

I had seen several football games

I had done the job

Structure

Adjective: is a word that is used to describe a noun or a pronoun

General classification of Adjectives

(i) Adjectives of colour

e.g. black, yellow, green, purple, orange, red

(ii) Adjectives of size and shape

e.g. small, giant, round, etc

(iii) Adjectives of quantity

e.g. many, few, little, much

(iv) Adjectives of age

e.g. old, new, middle, young.

(v) Proper adjectives or adjectives of origin

e.g. African, Kenyan, French

(vi) Adjective of use

e.g. useful, useless

ORDER OF ADJECTIVE

Where there is more than one adjective before a noun in a sentence, the order of adjectives is as follows:

(a) 1 st adjective - Describes the number (Quantity)

(b) 2 nd adjective - Describes the general size and shape

(c) 3 rd adjective - Describes age

(d) 4 th adjective - Describes colour

(e) 5 th adjective - Describes where it comes from (origin)

(f) 6 th adjective - Describes what is made up of

(g) 7 th adjective - Noun

Examples: