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Common Verb Errors

Common Verb Errors. By Brian Lewis. Wrong or Missing Verb Ending. Error Forgetting to add –s, -es, -ed, or –d to end of word when necessary. Correction Form past/past participle—add –d or –ed to present form (Ex: shop-shopped, type-typed).

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Common Verb Errors

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  1. Common Verb Errors By Brian Lewis

  2. Wrong or Missing Verb Ending • Error • Forgetting to add –s, -es, -ed, or –d to end of word when necessary. • Correction • Form past/past participle—add –d or –ed to present form (Ex: shop-shopped, type-typed). • Add –s to verb in 3rd person singular (Ex: grow-grows, prance-prances, stop-stops)

  3. Tense Shifting/Choosing Wrong Tense or Verb Form • Error • Shifting from present to past to present inconsistently. • Correction • Choose a tense (present, past, etc.) and stick to it. • Be sure the verb form you choose is accurate for what you what to convey.

  4. Six Common Tenses • Present (ongoing) • Past (happened once) • Future (will occur in future) • Present Perfect (began in past, continues in present) LOOK FOR “HAS/HAVE” • Past Perfect (began and ended before something else happened) LOOK FOR “HAD” • Future Perfect (will end in future before a certain time)

  5. Subject-Verb Agreement Errors • Errors • Verb does not agree with subject in number and person • Corrections/Notes • Find subject and verb • Pronouns who/which/that may be singular or plural, depending on their antecedents • Plural in form, singular in meaning=sing. Verb (mathematics, measles, statistics, mumps)

  6. Correct these sentences (if they need it). • He agrees that the film is one of the worst ever. • Karen show him that he needs to tie the knot tighter. • Yesterday, he yell at the students for being insolent. • Let’s hope that Lana seen the error of her ways. • The news of his death has shook the world. • Keisha has sang beautifully in the shower before. • The real name of Judy Garland, star of many Broadway shows, are Frances Gumm. • 212 degrees are the boiling point of water. • Spanish flu, which killed half a million people, rank as our nation’s worst single epidemic. • One of the ladders have broken a rung. • There remain two additional problems to solve.

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