Use the Correct Verb Forms Basic English Grammar

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maybe first question this week comes

from Consing Shem hai Kaun Singh kaan

Singh says hi Alicia if the first herb

in a particular sentence is used in its

first form then what form should the

subsequent verb be for example the poet

says that the great terror of Russia

crippled the Russian people in this

sentence I used the first form for the

first verb says for the second verb I

used the second form of the verb

crippled is my sentence grammatically

correct

can you explain and when do we use verb

forms one two and three okay so first to

clarify for all viewers this expression

first form or a second form or a third

form first form refers to the infinitive

form of a verb so like the simple

present tense form second form refers to

past tense and third form refers to the

past participle form of the verb

second yes your sentence is

grammatically correct the one that I’ve

just read here but third as far as a

rule for when to use like first or

second or third form verbs you can make

a lot of different combinations it just

depends on what you want to say so you

can make grammatically correct sentences

by using first and then second or maybe

first and then third but it just depends

on the meaning you would like to

communicate for example my parents say I

work too much and my parents have said I

work too much my parents said I worked

too much last month all of these

sentences are grammatically correct and

all of these sentences use different

combinations of first second and third

form verbs it depends on what you want

to say so a refresher first form simple

past tense is used for general facts and

for things that are always true like

regularly occurring actions ii ii form

the simple past tense is

used for actions that started and

finished in the past third third form

the past participle form of a verb is

used like when we’re making present

perfect or past perfect expressions or

when we’re talking about unreal

situations so depending on what you

would like to communicate your verb

conjugation is going to change there’s

not a rule in English for like using

first form and then second form or it

must be second form than first form

there’s not a rule like this it depends

on what you want to communicate so I

hope that this helps you and I hope that

you experiment a lot to see how the

different verb conjugations can change

the meaning of a sentence okay thanks

very much for this question let’s move

along to your next question next

question comes from

Navid abbas hi Naveen Naveen says dear

Alisha I’m from Pakistan when do we use

someone and some one and anyone and any

one what is the difference between these

two combined and separated words hope

you can teach me thanks aa nice question

first point I want to mention some and

one so with a space between some and one

this is not something we use in everyday

modern English we don’t use some and one

separated so don’t think about that

don’t worry about that someone and

anyone however we do use so this is

someone in anyone with no space we use

someone when we want to make positive

statements when we make requests and

when we make offers for example can

someone help me make dinner would you

like to speak to someone anyone is used

in information questions and in negative

statements I don’t know anyone at this

party have you seen anyone wearing a top

hat recently finally any one is used

when we want to emphasize the word one

and we do this when we’re making choices

for example you can have any one of

these donuts or I would be thrilled to

have any one of these computers so it

shows that maybe there are many

choices and all of them are good choices

so you’ll hear any use to emphasize one

in this way so I hope that this helps

answer your question thanks very much

for sending it along ok let’s move on to

your next question next question comes

from - Leigh hi - - says hi Alicia could

you please explain why a is used for

cell phone and the is used for table in

this sentence there is a cell phone on

the table

okay so to refresh we use indefinite

articles a and an when we introduce new

nouns in a story or in a situation we

use the definite article the when we

want to refer to something that is known

in a story or in a situation so here

let’s imagine you walk into a room a

table so I use a there to show this is a

new noun a table when I want to refer to

this same table again later in my

conversation or later in my story I use

the so I could say for example mmm I

walked next to the table so the table

means the same table I introduced

earlier if I see there’s something on

the table a cell phone I would say Oh a

cell phone on the table so when I use a

or in I’m introducing a new noun or

something that is unknown in the

situation so in this example sentence

there is a cell phone on the table the

speaker knows about the table already

but the speaker maybe notices a new item

a cell phone in this case so the

sentence the cell phone is on the table

is also grammatically correct so

depending on the situation and depending

on the story depending on the

conversation we might use a and the in

different ways but they’re also correct

so it just depends on whether the

speaker knows the noun or not are they

introducing it if so a or an if they’re

not introducing it if they’re referring

to something else in the store

so I hope that this helps answer your

question thanks very much

okay let’s move on to your next question

next question is from Emma hi Emma Emma

says hi Alicia I love your lessons

Thanks

would you please show us the differences

among suggest advise offer recommend and

propose thanks in advance okay big

question

let’s compare suggest and recommend

first so we use suggest and recommend in

almost the same way it’s like you’re

giving someone your opinion about

something

however when you recommend something it

has the feeling of personal experience

so for example if I recommend a

restaurant it’s because I’ve been to the

restaurant I thought it was good and I

want you to go there or I think it would

be a good choice for you if I recommend

music to my friend it’s because I listen

to the music and I think it’s a good fit

for them when we’re using suggest it

doesn’t necessarily mean that there’s

personal experience involved it’s more

like you’re giving your advice to suit

that person’s situation so for example

hmm your computer isn’t working

I suggest you restart I suggest this

hairstyle I think it would suit your

face so suggest because it doesn’t have

that feeling of like personal experience

it can sound a little bit like

disconnected it may be a little bit more

formal than something like recommend

let’s move along then to advise advise

what’s the next verb so when you advise

someone it means you give them your

opinion but when you advise someone it

sounds like you do that regularly like

there are jobs in which people advise

others so those job titles are called

like advisor to something so when you

advise someone you’re giving them your

opinion and it’s usually for something

formal or kind of important to advise

examples the lawyer advised me not to

comment on this my team has been advised

regarding this issue so

this word does sound a little bit formal

okay let’s move on to the next word

which was offer so offer think about

offer as like this step before give so

you want to give someone something if I

decide I want to give you my phone for

example but I want to ask you if it’s

okay is it appropriate I can offer it

and I would say would you like my phone

so that’s an offer it’s like the step

before give so to offer someone

something is to ask them if they would

like that thing so some other examples

he offered her a drink the whole team

was offered a promotion so offer doesn’t

mean give it’s like the step before give

okay the last word that was on your list

was proposed ah so we use propose in

formal situations we use this like in

business situations or other

work-related situations when we want to

give a new idea we want to present a new

idea a fairly serious idea we also use

this when we are asking someone to marry

us so some examples I’m going to propose

a new product for next year

my brother proposed to his girlfriend so

you can hear proposed tends to be used

for more serious situations

it’s like suggesting something but kind

of formal so suggest is used for like

small everyday things as is recommend

proposed is like you’re bringing a new

idea to someone and asking for

permission to do that so I hope that

this helps you thanks very much for this

question all right let’s move on to your

next question next question comes from

faisal they say it hello faisal faisal

says what’s the difference between us

and we the difference is the part of

speech we acts as the subject us acts as

the object so it depends on the position

of the word in the sentence if you’re

using we if you want to talk about a

group of people as the subject of your

sentence use we if you want to talk

about a group of people including

as the object of a verb so receiving

some action we use us some examples we

talked to the boss the boss talked to us

we chased the bullies the bullies chased

us so in these examples sentences you

can see I reverse the subject and the

object in each case so we is the subject

of the sentence us is the object of the

verb I hope that this helps you thanks

very much for the question ok that is

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