PPT-Session 11: Attending to voice and verb tense when editing

You will need your 8 th Grade Narrative Writing Checklists today along with your writing goals Take out the newscast that you worked on last night Todays teaching point We are going to look at one more lens journalists look through as they edit they listen for the relationship between verb tense and voice. The English Verb. Tense, Aspect, Mood. “This is going to sound really stupid, but is a verb a doing word?”. (a question asked by an English Literature undergraduate in a writing class, Autumn 2011). Progressive Tense. The progressive form of a verb tense expresses an action that is continuing at the time referred to in the sentence. The progressive form uses the present participle of the verb with the suitable tense of the verb . Lesson . #11. Workbook page: . 103. Student will . be able to write sentences using present, past, and future verb tense.. What do we do when we have a PAST tense IRREGULAR verb.. What do we add to REGULAR verbs in PAST tense. Tenses. Angela Gulick. CAS Writing Specialist. June . 2015. Verbs. Think of a sentence like a movie. The . subject. is the “star” of your sentence, the person or thing around which all action revolves.. Becca. Ross. What is Imperfect Tense?. Imperfect Tense describes what you used to do.. It’s closely related to past tense, but past tense is something that just happened. . There are three Equivalents in English.. Rebecca McFarlan. Indian Hill HS. Cincinnati, OH. mcfarlan@ih.k12.oh.us. Three Categories of Verbs. Voice (Active/Passive). Tense. Mood (Indicative – Imperative – Subjunctive). Why are Verbs Important?. Types of Verbs: Action. What the subject does:. throw, catch. s. ing, play. r. un, walk. w. atch, listen. t. hink, speak. w. rite, read. Verb Choice. Good writers pay attention to the connotative meanings of words and select specific, vivid verbs: . Part of Speech. Noun. Pronoun. Verb. Helping Verb. Adjective. Preposition. Conjunction. Active Voice. John. . punched. . Kim. What is . John. ?. Subject. What is . punched. ?. Verb. Past. What is . Past, Present, and Future Tense. TENSE. What does . tense. mean?. The tense of a verb tells us when an action is happening.. Is it happening now? In the past? In the future? All of these are different tenses.. Conventions Commando Training manual. Lesson 1: Standards. Essential Question:. How does . efficient. and . correct . grammar improve my writing?. How can I become a . Conventions Commando. ?. ELACC8L1-. What are the verb tenses? . . Present and present perfect. . Past and past perfect. . Future and future perfect. Consistency of tense. Modals. Review A. Review B. What are the verb tenses?. Verbs do a lot of work in sentences. They show actions and states of being. They even take different forms to show time.. Identify and use the six major verb tenses correctly.. Identify and understand the four principal parts of verbs.. Conjugate regular and irregular verbs correctly. . Verb Tenses: . A . tense. is the form of a verb that shows the time of an action or condition. . Yo. Nosotros. /. Nosotras. Tú. Vosotros. /. Vosotras. . (Spain & a. few other countries only) . Él. ,. . ella. , . Ud. . . Ellos. ,. . Ellas. , . Uds. . . First, lets review subjects/subject pronouns. . DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH. CAMBRIAN COLLEGE. . V. O. I. C. E. By the end of this lesson you will learn. :. ●. Definition of Voice . ●. Kinds of Voice. ●. Uses of auxiliaries according to tenses.