Very often the past simple ends in -ed (regular verbs)
- I work in a travel agency now. Before that I worked in a department store.
- We invited them to our party, but they decided not to come.
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Past simple (I did)
mike | 2009年03月17日 | コメント（0）Present Continuous and Present Simple 2 (I am doing and I do)
mike | 2009年03月16日 | コメント（0）We use continuous forms for actions and happenings that have started but not finished (they are eating / it is raining etc.). Some verbs (for example, know and like) are not normally used in this way. We don’t say ‘I am knowing’ or ‘they are liking’; we say ‘I know‘, ‘they like‘.
The following verbs are not normally used in the present continuous:
Like, love, hate, want, need, prefer, know, realize, suppose, mean, understand, believe, remember
Present Continuous and Present Simple 1 (I am doing & I do)
mike | 2009年03月15日 | コメント（0）Present continuous (I am doing)
We use the continuous for things happening at or around the time of speaking. The action is not complete.
“The water is boiling. Can you turn it off?”
“Listen to those people. What language are they speaking?”
“Let’s go out. It isn’t raining now.”
We use the continuous for temporary situations:
“I’m living with some friends until I find a place of my own.”
Present Simple (I do)
mike | 2009年03月14日 | コメント（0）Study this example situation:
Alex is a bus driver, but now he is in bed asleep. He is not driving a bus. (He is asleep.) but He drives a bus. (He is a bus driver.) Drive(s) / work(s) / do(es) etc. is the present simple.
I/we/you/they drive/work/do etc.
He/she/it drives/works/does etc.
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We use the present simple to talk about things in general. We use it to say that something happens all the time or repeatedly, or that something is true in general:
Nurses look after patients in hospitals.
I usually go away at weekends.
The earth goes around the sun.
Present Continuous (I am doing)
mike | 2009年03月13日 | コメント（0）I am doing something = I’m in the middle of doing it; I’ve started doing it and I haven’t finished yet:
“Please don’t make so much noise. I’m trying to do work. (not I try)
“Where’s Mark?” ”He‘s having a shower.” (not He has a shower)
“Let’s go out now. It isn’t raining any more.” (not It doesn’t rain)
“What’s all that noise? What‘s going on?” (= What’s happening?)
