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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