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Past looked was/were looking had looked had been looking

will/shall will have
Future will be looking will have been looking
look looked

Verbs are subdivided into two groups, regular verbs and irregular verbs, on the basis of how their past
tense and past participles are formed. Most verbs are regular verbs. Regular verbs are those whose past
tense and past participles are formed by adding a -d or an -ed to the end of the verb, such as bill, billed,
billed. Sometimes the last consonant must be doubled before adding the -ed ending, as in, plan, planned,
planned.

Irregular verbs change into very different words as they move from singular to plural or past to present
(am/are, has/have, does/do). There are over 250 irregular verbs in the English language. Although they
do not follow a formula, there are some fairly common irregular forms that students should learn to
recognize.

Review:

• The eight parts of speech in the English language are the noun, verb, adjective, adverb,
pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
• Noun classifications include common nouns, proper nouns, singular and plural nouns,
and singular and plural possessive nouns.
• Proper nouns are always capitalized and include names, days of the week, titles,
months, institutions, holidays, magazines, newspapers, organizations.
• Action verbs express mental or physical action; linking verbs make a statement by
connecting the subject with a word.
• Verbs have three basic tenses: present, past, and future.
• The perfect form indicates completed action during an indefinite time period; the
progressive form indicates ongoing action; and the perfect progressive form indicates
ongoing action that will be completed at some definite time.
• Both nouns and verbs have regular and irregular plural forms that students must learn
to identify as they begin to compose sentences.

Adjectives generally answer the questions: Which? What kind? or How many? Adjectives can be used
to make comparative or superlative statements with the use of suffixes or by using the adjective together
with more or most.

Examples: bright, brighter, brightest
intelligent, more intelligent, most intelligent

Adverbs generally answer the questions: How? When? Where? To what degree? or How
much?Interrogative adverbs introduce questions: How? When? How often? and Where?

Examples: He fought swiftly and bravely.
What time does the show start?