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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 ....
  

Further 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!

Say it in English:

1. Diese Menschen sind ehrlich blöd! Lösung: These people are really stupid.
2. Ron war der, der gestern gelogen hat! Lösung: It was Ro who lied yesterday.
3. Aber ich lieb dich doch! Lösung: But I do love you.

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German "lassen"

• "Lassen" 1

• Buch, page 55/3 selsbt machen! ⇒ Lösungen:

1. To start with, she made us run round ...
2. ... my driving test, she'll let me borrow her car.
3. ... we should have it repaired.
4. ... don't let him drink any ...
5. ... sad ending, it always makes me cry when I ...
6. ... work in their gardener, but the have a gardener come evry week and cut the grass ...
7. Dad says he will not make me pay for all ...
8. Eating to much ... makes me feel sick.
9. ... if you had it cut ....

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Short sentences with so, nor, neither

• neither-nor-1

Non-defining Relative Clauses

• Non-defining or not?
• Non-defining 1
• Non-defining 2
• Non-defining 3
• Non definig and defining ...
• Form correct sentences! (Exercise at bottom of page!)