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Tips for Practicing English's Grammar

2010-03-20T17:28:00.000-07:00

What do I study?

Verbs, nouns, adjectives, articles, etc.

Basic word order Clauses and phrases Subordination and coordination Collocations

How do I study grammar? Explanations

Understand general and specific usage Examples

Understand use in sentences Look at contexts Exercises Practice in context Choosing the right word or phrase
Error recognition and correction
Fill in the blank
Sentence completion
Sentence combining
Reducing wordiness
Writing exercises

List of Regular and Irregular Verbs in English

2010-03-20T14:43:00.000-07:00

Regular Verbs

base	-s form	past	past participle	-ing form	notes

call	calls	called	called	calling
clean	cleans	cleaned	cleaned	cleaning

look	looks	looked	looked	looking	1
talk	talks	talked	talked	talking	1

end	ends	ended	ended	ending	2
wait	waits	waited	waited	waiting	2

kiss	kisses	kissed	kissed	kissing	3
wash	washes	washed	washed	washing	3

live	lives	lived	lived	living	4
love	loves	loved	loved	loving	4

beg	begs	begged	begged	begging	5
sin	sins	sinned	sinned	sinning	5

play	plays	played	played	playing
stay	stays	stayed	stayed	staying

cry	cries	cried	cried	crying	6
	studies	studied	studied	studying	6

die	dies	died	died	dying
tie	ties	tied	tied	tying

Notes:
1. Pronunciation differences in past/past participle after /p, s, k, f/ sounds
2. Pronunciation differences in past/past participle after /t, d/ sounds
3. Spelling and pronunciation differences in -s form after /s, sh, ch, z/ sounds
4. Dropping of "silent e" with -ing endings
5. Doubled consonants after "short" vowel sounds
6. Spelling differences when "y" is preceded by a consonant

Irregular Verbs
< td>< td>

base	-s form	past	past participle	-ing form

cut	cuts	cut	cut	cutting
fit	fits	fit	fit	fitting
hit	hits	hit	hit	hitting
let	lets	let	let	letting
put	puts	put	put	putting
quit	quits	quit	quit	quitting
set	sets	set	set	setting
shut	shuts	shut	shut	shutting
split	splits	split	split	splitting
upset	upsets	upset	upset	upsetting

burst	bursts	burst	burst	bursting
cast	casts	cast	cast	casting
cost	costs	cost	cost	costing*
hurt	hurts	hurt	hurt	hurting

spread	spreads	spread	spread	spreading

knit	knits	knit/knitted	knit/knitted	knitting

sit	sits	sat	sat	sitting
spit	spits	spat/spit	spat/spit	spitting

begin	begins	began	begun	beginning
swim	swims	swam	swum	swimming

ring	rings	rang	rung	ringing
sing	sings	sang	sung	singing
spring	springs	sprang	sprung	springing

cling	clings	clung	clung	clinging
fling	flings	flung	flung	flinging
sling	slings	slung	slung	slinging
sting	stings	stung	stung	stinging
swing	swings	swung	swung	swinging
wring	wrings	wrung	wrung	wringing

hang	hangs	hung/hanged**	hung/hanged	hanging

drink	drinks	drank	drunk	sinking
shrink	shrinks	shrank	shrunk	shrinking
stink	stinks	stank	stunk	stinking

think	thinks	thought	thought	thinking
bring	brings	brought	brought	bringing

buy	buys	bought	bought	buying
seek	seeks	sought	sought	seeking
fight	fights	fought	fought	fighting

catch	catches	caught	caught	catching
teach	teaches	taught	taught	teaching

creep	creeps	crept	crept	creeping
keep	keeps	kept	kept	keeping
sleep	sleeps	slept	slept	sleeping
sweep	sweeps	swept	swept	sweeping
weep	weeps	wept	wept	weeping

bleed	bleeds	bled	bled	bleeding
breed	breeds	bred	bred	breeding
feed	feeds	fed	fed	feeding
flee	flees	fled	fled	fleeing
lead	leads	led	led	leading
speed	speeds	sped/speeded	sped/speeded	speeding

meet	meets	met	met	meeting

bend	bends	bent	bent	bending
lend	lends	lent	lent	lending
send	sends	sent	sent	sending
spend	spends	spent	spent	spending

deal	deals	dealt	dealt	dealing
feel	feels	felt	felt	feeling
kneel	kneels	knelt	knelt	kneeling

dream	dreams	dreamt/dreamed	dreamt/dreamed	dreaming

mean	means	meant	meant	meaning

spill	spills	spilt/spilled	spilt/spilled	spilling

build	builds	built	built	building

burn	burns	burnt/burned	burnt/burned	burning

hold	holds	held	held	holding

sell	sells	sold	sold	selling
tell	tells	told	told	telling

find	finds	found	found	finding
grind	grinds	ground	ground	grinding
wind	winds	wound	wound	winding

break	breaks	broke	broken	breaking
choose	chooses	chose	chosen	choosing
freeze	freezes	froze	frozen	freezing
speak	speaks	spoke	spoken	speaking
steal	steals	stole	stolen	stealing
wake	wakes	woke	woken	waking
weave	weaves	wove	woven	weaving

arise	arises	arose	arisen	arising
drive	drives	drove	driven	driving
ride	rides	rode	ridden	riding
rise	rises	rose	risen	rising
write	writes	wrote	written	writing

bite	bites	bit	bitten	biting
hide	hides	hid	hidden	hiding
slide	slides	slid	slid	sliding

get	gets	got	gotten	getting
forget	forgets	forgot	forgotten	forgetting

give	gives	gave	given	giving
forgive	forgives	forgave	forgiven	forgiving
forbid	forbids	forbade/forbad	forbidden	forbidding

fall	falls	fell	fallen	falling

swell	swells	swelled	swollen	swelling

dive	dives	dove/dived	dived	diving

blow	blows	blew	blown	blowing
fly	flies	flew	flown	flying
grow	grows	grew	grown	growing
know	knows	knew	known	knowing
throw	throws	threw	thrown	throwing

draw	draws	drew	drawn	drawing
withdraw	withdraws	withdrew	withdrawn	withdrawing

show	shows	showed	shown	showing

eat	eats	ate	eaten	eating

beat	beats	beat	beaten	beating

take	takes	took	taken	taking
forsake	forsakes	forsook	forsaken	forsaking
mistake	mistakes	mistook	mistaken	mistaking
shake	shakes	shook	shaken	shaking

make	makes	making

swear	swears	swore	sworn	swearing
wear	wears	wore	worn	wearing
tear	tears	tore	torn	tearing
bear	bears	bore	born	bearing

stand	stands	stood	stood	standing
understand	understands	understood	understood	understanding

become	becomes	became	become	becoming
come	comes	came	come	coming
run	runs	ran	run	running

dig	digs	dug	dug	digging
spin	spins	spun	spun	spinning
stick	sticks	stuck	stuck	sticking

strike	strikes	struck	struck/stricken	striking

do	does	did	done	doing
go	goes	went	gone	going

have	has	had	had	having

hear	hears	heard	heard	hearing

lay	lays	laid	laid	laying
pay	pays	paid	paid	paying
say	says	said	said	saying

lie	lies	lay	lain	lying

light	lights	lit/lighted	lit/lighted	lighting

lose	loses	lost	lost	losing

leave	leaves	left	left	leaving

prove	proves	proved	proven/proved	proving

read	reads	read	read	reading

see	sees	saw	seen	seeing

sew	sews	sewed	sewn/sewed	sewing

shave	shaves	shaved	shaven/shaved	shaving

shine	shines	shined/shone	shined/shone	shining

shoot	shoots	< td>	shot	shooting

win	wins	won	won	winning

be	is/are/am	was/were	been	being

* "Cost" does not usually occur in the -ing form. ** "hang" has two different meanings and thus two usages in past/past participle

Learning English Grammar - Glossary of English Grammar Terms

2010-03-20T13:00:00.000-07:00

by Kenyon Cox

Glossary of English Grammar Terms

Active Voice
In the active voice, the subject of the verb does the action (eg They killed the President). See also Passive Voice.

Adjective
A word like big, red, easy, French etc. An adjective describes a noun or pronoun.

Adverb
A word like slowly, quietly, well, often etc. An adverb modifies a verb.

Article
The "indefinite" articles are a and an. The "definite article" is the.

Auxiliary Verb
A verb that is used with a main verb. Be, do and have are auxiliary verbs. Can, may, must etc are modal auxiliary verbs.

Clause
A group of words containing a subject and its verb (for example: It was late when he arrived).

Conjunction
A word used to connect words, phrases and clauses (for example: and, but, if).

Infinitive
The basic form of a verb as in to work or work.

Interjection
An exclamation inserted into an utterance without grammatical connection (for example: oh!, ah!, ouch!, well!).

Modal Verb
An auxiliary verb like can, may, must etc that modifies the main verb and expresses possibility, probability etc. It is also called "modal auxiliary verb".

Noun
A word like table, dog, teacher, America etc. A noun is the name of an object, concept, person or place. A "concrete noun" is something you can see or touch like a person or car. An "abstract noun" is something that you cannot see or touch like a decision or happiness. A "countable noun" is something that you can count (for example: bottle, song, dollar). An "uncountable noun" is something that you cannot count (for example: water, music, money).

Object
In the active voice, a noun or its equivalent that receives the action of the verb. In the passive voice, a noun or its equivalent that does the action of the verb.

Participle
The -ing and -ed forms of verbs. The -ing form is called the "present participle". The -ed form is called the "past participle" (for irregular verbs, this is column 3).

Part Of Speech
One of the eight classes of word in English - noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and interjection.

Passive Voice
In the passive voice, the subject receives the action of the verb (eg The President was killed). See also Active Voice.

Phrase
A group of words not containing a subject and its verb (eg on the table, the girl in a red dress).

Predicate
Each sentence contains (or implies) two parts: a subject and a predicate. The predicate is what is said about the subject.

Preposition
A word like at, to, in, over etc. Prepositions usually come before a noun and give information about things like time, place and direction.

Pronoun
A word like I, me, you, he, him, it etc. A pronoun replaces a noun.

Sentence
A group of words that express a thought. A sentence conveys a statement, question, exclamation or command. A sentence contains or implies a subject and a predicate. In simple terms, a sentence must contain a verb and (usually) a subject. A sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!).

Subject
Every sentence contains (or implies) two parts: a subject and a predicate. The subject is the main noun (or equivalent) in a sentence about which something is said.

Tense
The form of a verb that shows us when the action or state happens (past, present or future). Note that the name of a tense is not always a guide to when the action happens. The "present continuous tense", for example, can be used to talk about the present or the future.

Verb
A word like (to) work, (to) love, (to) begin. A verb describes an action or state.

Michael Jackson "This Is It" (Steve Porter Remix)

2009-10-13T11:25:00.001-07:00

Me encanto! jajaja,

I love youuu too MJ!

con referencia a:

"Michael Jackson "This Is It" (Steve Porter Remix)"
- YouTube - Michael Jackson "This Is It" (Steve Porter Remix) (ver en Google Sidewiki)

Bolivian@s Globales - We are brothers

2009-03-22T16:03:00.000-07:00

Bolivians Around the world

The revenge of the fool

2009-02-08T18:08:00.000-08:00

I was walking without shoes in my house, i felt the cold rising up with each step, slowly all my body started to shake, until i realized that the cold in my heart was colder, more i realized of this, more that i felt myself in a big crossroad. What's next? what do I have to do to make my heart feels live and warm again?

Since i dont know.. ever?

2008-05-18T17:13:00.000-07:00

In the end it doesnt even matter.

No end, no beginning.

All is...

One Month that i havent written anything here

2008-01-27T20:41:00.000-08:00

Well, I don't know .. I said "I have to practice".... but where is my commitment to keep learning if I havent written something in this blog?... Lets see, since i started to work I hardly can read other blogs, and you know! how i love to read them!

The stats of this blog I don't know. Maybe some "gringo" read me and says " Keep on rolling baby!" haha -> see i even laugh in english! =D
One day at the time.

For the sincere friend
Who gives me his frank hand.
And for the cruel man who pulls out of me
the heart with which I live,
I grow neither nettles nor thorns:
I grow a white rose.
~ José Martí ~

The pit and the pendulum - Nothing to say - I dont Know.

2007-12-19T15:26:00.000-08:00

Yuri Bonder

I WAS sick -- sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sentence -- the dread sentence of death -- was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears. Edgar Allan Poe. The pit and the pendulum.

Oh my God.
Nothing else to say.

Pour Some Sugar on Me

2007-12-11T22:18:00.000-08:00

Featherlite - Waste not, want not you say as you

2007-12-07T21:37:00.000-08:00

Featherlite

Waste not, want not you say as you
wring the last drops, the way
you'd get the dregs of the Burgundy
out of a wine box. You swallow the lot
like an epicure, a woman who hasn't drunk
for weeks. I see the tongue curl
in your mouth, your lips sticky and opalescent
as it runs down your throat.
An elixir, that's what you call it,
your multi-mineral and vitamin supplement:
amino acids, glucose, fructose, vitamin B12
(essential for vegetarians), vitamin C,
magnesium, calcium, potassium,
and one third of the recommended
daily dose of zinc. You wipe your chin
with a finger, and put the tip to your tongue.
The taste is acquired; like whisky,
and anchovies, you develop a passion.
It's an aphrodisiac more efficacious
than rhino horn, or Spanish Fly,
it's delicious, you say. as you grab my hair,
and push your salty tongue in my mouth.

I can't stop thinking about you

2007-12-07T07:56:00.000-08:00

I Can't Stop

by Stacy Williams

I can't stop thinking about you
Wondering if you think of me, too
I can't stop thinking of your lips
Oh! How soft they are between mine
I can't stop imagining your hands
As they caress my every hair and limb
I can't stop thinking of your face
How I love it and it thanks me in return.
I can't stop thinking of your voice,
As sexy as the body it possesses.
I can't stop feeling your touch inside me.
My temperature rises and emotions explode.
I can't stop thinking of how much I want you,
how I need you
No matter what you do,
I can't stop thinking about you.

Approaching you dear

2007-12-06T18:17:00.000-08:00

Approaching you
by Karen Heredia

I am approaching you
tiptoe dancing
so this pain won't listen
The sound of your dreams
is arousing my ears.

Step by step,
I have approached you,
dancing for you,

Slowly,
Slowly approaching you,
undressing my soul,
naked in front of you,
waiting,
inviting you to drink from my lips
the bitter and the sweet,
to keep you excited.

Slowly I immerse
and I go in raptures when I see you,
then you my love and fear, ended up falling in a dream

The Cats by H. P. Lovecraft - Nudes pictures

2007-12-06T00:43:00.000-08:00

H.P Lovecraft is best known for his stories of the macabre. He was born in Providence Rhode Island, where he lived with his two elderly aunts for a good part of his life. He died in 1937 at the age of forty-seven.

The Cats by H. P. Lovecraft

Babels of blocks to the high heavens towering
Flames of futility swirling below;
Poisonous fungi in brick and stone flowering,
Lanterns that shudder and death-lights that glow.

Black monstrous bridges across oily rivers,
Cobwebs of cable to nameless things spun;
Catacomb deeps whose dank chaos delivers
Streams of live foetor that rots in the sun.

Colour and splendour, disease and decaying,
Shrieking and ringing and crawling insane,
Rabbles exotic to stranger-gods praying,
Jumbles of odour that stifle the brain.

Legions of cats from the alleys nocturnal.
Howling and lean in the glare of the moon,
Screaming the future with mouthings infernal,
Yelling the Garden of Pluto's red rune.

Tall towers and pyramids ivy'd and crumbling,
Bats that swoop low in the weed-cumber'd streets;
Bleak Arkham bridges o'er rivers whose rumbling
Joins with no voice as the thick horde retreats.

Belfries that buckle against the moon totter,
Caverns whose mouths are by mosses effac'd,
And living to answer the wind and the water,
Only the lean cats that howl in the wastes.

Nude Photography - List of websites - Cool picture

2007-12-05T22:48:00.000-08:00

http://www.photographysites.com

The most beautiful picture i ever saw

2007-11-15T16:05:00.000-08:00

Poem for you - One afternoon sitting and thinking about you

2007-11-14T12:32:00.000-08:00

You have my faith
by Karen Heredia
my faith in your soul,
in the way that you walk on this earth,
when you look at yourself in the mirror,
you have my faith,
walking around your office,
while you learn how the world works
i whisper in your ear,

i put my faith in you.
i felt your soul,

you have my faith
i know that you won't
hurt me,
lose your hopes,
leave your dreams,
but there is something that hurt my soul
is that you can't feel the same,
so i know that i dont have your faith...

NUDE WINNERS

2007-10-29T21:17:00.000-07:00

1st Place - Outstanding Achievement

I love pictures, nudes always will be my favorite category in photography..
this photo belong to the site called : http://www.thespiderawards.com/
I hope u enjoy this site as i did
kisses

Love What is love?

2007-10-28T10:20:00.001-07:00

Love is the most dificult feeling that you could feel....
and it is hard to keep warm.

Why the facebook is so popular? -why the facebook worth a lot of money?

2007-10-25T11:30:00.000-07:00

Well, the facebook has grown so fast, because it is "THE BIG SNITCH"... yes, you can see what your friends did, or are doing, or what they are going to do. If someone has broken up with her/his girlfriend/boyfriend you will be noticed by the application. You can see which person took a picture with who, yes that’s right, also you can see who friend of you is friend of that person that u didn’t like... Who spend the weekend with who.... so if the facebook has grown so fast it is because the people looove to be Snitch!!! ;)

Well, that’s why the facebook has grown so fast in popularity, but! Why the facebook worth a lot of money?

In Computer science exists something called Information Technology (IT), and it is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit and retrieve information, securely. All right, and you could ask now ...What about it?... and the answer is easy, when you can convert, store, protect, process, transmit and retrieve information, securely.

There are a lot of companies like Microsoft, Coca Cola, and others that could use this information for the study of the behaviours of their consumers, to find out what are their needs, the things that they love and hate about one particular product.

For example:

There is an application in which you can send drinks to your friends, and now... Imaging that a company could process that information with help of engineers and people in marketing, to figurate out how improve the sales of their products.

You could easily collect the information of one million of consumers in the whole wide world, how much money these companies would like to pay for this information?

It is amazing, inst it? The facebook is so popular because it is the BIG SNITCH and also because every day the information that store in his database have a big usability for marketing. Hahaha.

What the hell is zapping?

2007-10-24T22:28:00.000-07:00

Here is one thing that make me crazy, I am not sure yet if this is what they refer about "zapping".

So many people say "it is time to zapping", "the zapping zone", and in a video website like 4you.dada.net there is a section called Zapping.. U_U.. so i decided to search the term of zapping in wikipedia, but i am not convinced yet.. Do you know what exactly is zapping ?...

This is the beginning - Welcome to eJoup

2007-10-23T11:16:00.000-07:00

Well dears this is one more blog in english...
Why is this special? mmmm, i am not sure... but maybe this could help ->
"i am a bolivian woman, living in her country for almost a quarter of a century " and i am also practicing my english! hahaha ...i hope u enjoy this place as i'll do it =D
yeah!!!!