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Use of Tenses

General Information

• Overview of tenses and usage!
• Examples of using tenses!

Contrastive use + exercises

• Simple Present vs. Present Progressive
• Simple Present vs. Present Perfect Progressive
• Present Perfect Simple vs. Present Perfect Progressive
• Simple Past vs. Past Progressive
• Simple Past vs. Present Perfect Simple
• Simple Past vs. Pst Perfect Simple

Gerund and Infinitive

Info

• Overview of Infinitive and Gerund
• Different meaning 1
• Different meaning 2
• Different meaning 3

Exercises and Tests

• Several exercises on "Infinitive or Gerund?"
• Infinitive or gerund? 1
• Infinitive or gerund? 2
• Infinitive or gerund - Test 2
• Infinitive or gerund - Test 3
• Infinitive or gerund - Test 4

Expressing the Future

• Overview
• Overview of tenses used to express the future
• Mixed future tenses I
• Mixed future tenses II
• Mixed future tenses III

will-future

• Overview will-future (with links to exercises/tests)

going to - future

• Overview goint to-future (with links to exercises/tests)
• "will" or "going to"?

simple present (timetable-future)

• simple present → future

present progressive

• exercis present progressive →future

Stressing parts of sentences

• "Hervorhebung mit do"
• Stress the underlined part of he sentence! You can use do/does, It is/it was ... or entences beginning with "What ..."., or adverbs of degree like really, completely ....
  

Examples:
What you should do is to emphasize the underlined passages!
OR: It is the underlined passages you should emphasize.
OR: You should really emphasize ....

• Tipp: Wenn du mit der Maus hinter dem Begriff "Lösung" entlang fährst und dabei die linke Maustaste gedrückt hältst, erfährst du die Lösung.
  

1. We saw Tom yesterday. Lösung: We did see Tom yesterday
2. I like to play with my little brother Lösung: It is my little brother I like to play with.
3. I cant stand people who don't help others. Lösung: What I can't stand are people who don't help others. / It is people who don't help others that I can't stand.
4. That was stupid of the boys. Lösung: That was extremely stupid of the boys!

• neither-nor-1