Zusammenfassung der Ressource
VERBS in Technical English
- Present tenses
- Continious
- To describe an activity at or around the time of speaking
- A fixed future plan
- Simple
- A regular or characteristics happening
- Perfect
- An activity at non-specific time in the past
- An activity which started in the past an continues to the present
- Past tenses
- Simple
- An activity at a defnite time in the past
- Continuous
- An activity which is a time frame of another activity
- Perfect
- An activity that happened earlier than another activity in the past
- Future Forms
- Con tinuous
- Needs an expression of future time to give it a future meaning
- Going to
- is used to express intentions
- Form
- You need the verb to be with the present continuous and the going to forms
- Ther is no to after will or shall
- The negative form of will is won't
- Conditionals
- I. Real possibility
- If clause: present simple
Main clause: future with will
- II. Remopte possibility
- If clause: past simple Main
clause: conditional with would
- III. Impossibility
- If Clause: past perfect
Main clause: past
conditional with would
have
- Universal. Consequence always follows the event
- If clause: present simple
Main clause: present
simple
- Active vs Pasive
- Active
- Describe actions and events
- Pasive
- When we are not interested in the doer
- In process descriptions
- In impersonal language