1. Tuesday, March 1 st, 2016 Bell work: Pick the correct verb. 1.The man had (drunk, drank) too much and robbed a bank. 2.When he was caught, he (lay, laid) down his gun and (weeped, wept). 3.“Will I be (hanged, hung)?” he sobbed. 4.“I have (sweared, sworn) never to break the law again,” he said. 5.“I have (lay, lied, lain) on the bed of adversity and tasted the bitter fruits of my misbehavior,” he mumbled, on his way to jail.

2. Answers 1.Drunk - this is past perfect tense 2.Laid, wept – this is past tense 3.Hanged – this is future perfect tense 4.Sworn – this is present perfect tense 5.Lain – this is present perfect tense

3. When to use different verb tenses Present: the “now” tense use if action is happening right now. I am hungry (right now). Present perfect: the action started in the past and continues into the present. I have eaten 16 cookies so far this week. Past: the “before” tense use if action happened in the past. I ate it.

4. Past Perfect: the “even before before” tense. Use if discussing an action already in the past and you need to make clear that another action happened earlier. Before I ate your dessert, I had eaten 87 doughnuts. Clues: “if” clause followed by “would” If I had thought about it first, I would not have eaten all those doughnuts. Future: the Star Trek tense. All statements have not happened yet. I will go on a diet. Future Perfect: combines future and past. Doesn’t come up very often. Use when an action is finished before a specified time in the future. By next week, I will have lost 10 pounds.