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Parts of speech explain how a word is used in a sentence. There are eight main parts of speech nouns, helping verb, main verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction

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Look for the helpers (verbs, that is)

I’ve seen this issue popping up in various places of late, so I decided to explain how to avoid it in your own work. When you want to combine tenses in a sentence to talk about something that’s been going on for a while and continues to do so, you have to be careful about the helping (auxiliary) verbs. Let me show you.

“They had and are still being treated that way today.”

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いる Helping Verb

This is another て-form lesson. A て-from verb + いる (conjugated), can mean either 1) a state of being, 2) an action in process, or 3) a change that affects the present. Which one it means depends on the verb. All verbs that we've learned so far can be put into three categories: 1) state of being verbs. The only Group 1 verbs we've seen so far are いる and ある, and neither of those use this, so we can disregard Group 1 for the time being.

2) activities that are in the process of happening. A good way to think of this is English verbs ending in "ing."

私はよみます。　　　I read./I will read. 私はよんでいます。 I am reading.

3) changes that affect who or what something is. This is sort of like verbs turned into adjectives,

アシュリーさんはやせます。 Ashley loses weight. アシュリーさんはやせています。 Ashley is thin.

母はお母さんをしっています。 My mom knows your mom. (The negative of しっています is しりません, NOT しっていません.)

A good rule of thumb as to wether a verb is Group 2 or Group 3 is to add an amount of time for an hour. I am listening to music for an hour. I am buying clothes for an hour. I am reading for an hour. - Those work. Group 2. I am marrying for an hour. I am fatting for an house. I am deading for an hour. - Those don't work. Group 3.

The exception to this is verbs like 行く and くる. ジョーイくんはうみに行っています。 Joey has gone to the beach. NOT Joey is going to the beach.

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Use of Past Tense

Which ones of the following do you think are correct?

* I didn’t said that. * Why didn’t you called me? * Did you got my mail? * You didn’t taught him a lesson. You should have. * I didn’t gave him anything.

These are common utterances you often get to…

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Grammar Pet Peeve of the Day: Improper Use of Verb Tense

Okay, I am definitely guilty of this. I think everyone uses the wrong verb tense in their writing from time to time. Verb tense can be a tricky part of grammar to conquer. If you screw it up once or twice I have no problem forgiving you for it. However, your entire story or paper or whatever it is that you are writing should not make my head spin as I try to grasp which tense it is set in.

If you're writing about the past you use past tense. Example: He said, I said.

If you're writing about the present use present tense. Example: I say.

Future tense typically uses helping, linking, or be verbs in front of the main verb. Example: I am going to say.

I think the problem most people run into is inconsistency. You should very rarely mix tenses. If you start off telling the story in past tense, try to use that same tense through. One paragraph shouldn't start with the past tense and then jump to the future tense in the next paragraph and then go to the present and back to the past again. That will just give your reader a headache and make them not want to read any more of your story...which is precisely where I am now as I attempt to read and critique my classmate's story...