English today.

For Beginners

Let’s make a table with the verb ‘Go’ and coin words in properly with different tenses. Tenses indicate the time of action, whether the action was performed in the present period (now), in the past (a completed action) or would be performed in the future (a period yet to come)

	Present Tense	Past Tense	Future Tense
First Person ‘I’	Go	Went	Will go
Second Person ‘You’	Go	Went	Will go
Third Person ‘He’/ ‘She’	Goes	Went	Will go
Third Person plural ‘They’	Go	Went	Will go

The combinations formed are as follows:-

I go there, I went there, I will go there (I’ll in contracted form)

You go there, You went there, You will go there (You’ll in contracted form)

He/ she goes there, He/she went there, He/she will go there (He’ll/ She’ll in contracted form)

They go there, They went there, They will go there (They’ll in contracted form)

If you remember the table, it’ll e easy to frame sentences easily.

The other form of common usage in daily English is the application of the words has, have, had etc.

Taking the same verb ‘Go’ for instance, the first person, second person, and third person combinations would be as follows:-

I have gone there, I had gone there.(First person)

You have gone there, you had gone there. (Second person)

He/ she has gone there, He/ She had gone there. (Third person ‘Singular’)

They have gone there, They had gone there. (Third person plural)

You may find that when we used the words have, has, and had the verb ‘Go’ changed to the word ‘gone’, which is known as the ‘participle’. Thus verbs that follow these words change into their participle forms. For example:-

I have seen the movie

I had taken the loaf of bread

I have given the money.

The show has begun.

Please find that see, take, give, and begin have changed to their participle forms seen, taken, given, begun respectively. As a thumb rule, the letter ‘n’ adds to change verbs into their participle forms. Hold on! This is not the case with all the verbs. There are many verbs, which retain their tense without changing. More on it later.

For middle/advanced levels

There is some common confusion with usage of some words, which arise in the event of daily English conversation and drafting. The confusion is so tricky that we need to be extra cautious during their presentation to avoid any embarrassment.

Consider the word ‘He hanged the overcoat on the wall’. This is a wrong sentence since ‘hanged’, means to hang somebody in the gallows. The correct sentence would be ‘He hung the overcoat on the wall’.

Words such as all ready, already, all together, altogether, all ways, always are also tricky.

All ready - ready for start, completely prepared.

Example:- The players were all ready but the match was yet to start.

Already- beforehand, previously.

Example:- The attorney was already present in the court even before the arrival of the client.

All ways- all possible avenues/ways.

Example:-The player explored all ways to win the match.

Always- Existing at all times without exclusion.

Example:- I always check my wallet before I leave my home.

We’ll discuss more on this subject later.

Results of the previous jumble

AGILE, QUAIL, ELIXIR, UNIQUE

Solution: QUEUE.

Let me give the meaning of the above words

Agile- able to move quickly and easily

Quail- a small brown bird whose meat and eggs are edible.

Elixir- a magic potion believed to cure all illnesses.

Unique- only one of its kind, matchless, having no equals.

For today’s exercise view at the top.