1. Verb Tenses Review

2. DO-Now:
Turn in your vocabulary homework and Project proposal.!!!
In your writer’s journal, describe a moment when you felt at peace and that everything was “right in the world.”

3. Objectives Agenda
I will be able to correct sentences that misuse present and past verb tenses.
Importance of verb tenses in writing
Spot the error
Practice

4. Remember when… We learned about verb tenses? Past Perfect Past
Simple Past
Present
Present Perfect

5. Why should you care about any of this?
Verb tenses show time and context
Without these important factors, understanding everything from a History A.R.E. response to your PBA research paper will be very difficult
…if not impossible!

6. How do you identify & fix “vt” errors?
Figure out the context
- What’s happening in the sentence?
Check for consistency
- Do all verbs agree with each other and the subject?
- Sometimes you may have more than one verb tense in the sentence…be careful that this doesn’t make it more confusing!

7. Can you identify the verb tense error?
Yongle is an effective leader of the Ming dynasty because he increases trade with maritime voyages.

8. Can you identify the verb tense error?
Present Tense
Yongle is an effective leader of the Ming dynasty because he increases trade with maritime voyages. Yongle was an effective leader of the Ming dynasty because he increased trade with maritime voyages.
Past Tense

9. Can you identify the verb tense error?
He has returned from London last week.

10. Can you identify the verb tense error?
He has returned from London last week. He returned from London last week.
Present Perfect
Past Simple
The present perfect is a present tense. It can’t be used with adverbs of past time.

11. Can you identify the verb tense error?
I have been to New York last summer.

12. Can you identify the verb tense error?
I have been to New York last summer. I went to New York last summer.
Present Perfect
Past Simple

13. Can you identify the verb tense error?
During the revision, it was found that the rule about time limits has been violated.

14. Can you identify the verb tense error?
We have submitted the application before we filed the application. We submitted the application before we filed the application.
Present Perfect
Past Simple

15. Practice…
You will be practicing using verb tenses correctly in everyday situations
Pay attention & try your best, because everyone can benefit from this lesson!

16. Verb tense practice worksheet due tomorrow!
Homework
Verb tense practice worksheet due tomorrow!
Continue preparing for lit. circles
Turn in any late work!!!!