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Tham khảo tài liệu 'atc practist test english5', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ACT ENGLISH TEST PRACTICE The present tense of regular verbs is formed as follows SINGULAR PLURAL first person I we base form believe base form believe second person you base form believe base form believe third person he she it they base form -s -es believes base form believe 3. Present participle the verb form that describes what is happening now. It ends in -ing and is accompanied by a helping verb such as is. Jessica is doing a difficult yoga pose. Stocks are falling again in response to another corporate scandal. NOTE Words that end in -ing don t always function as verbs. Sometimes they act as nouns and are called gerunds. They can also function as adjectives called participial phrases . Present participle verb He is loading the boxes into the car. Gerund noun This parking area is for loading only. Participial phrase adjective The loading dock is littered with paper. You will learn more about gerunds later in this section. 4. Past tense the verb form that expresses what happened in the past. It snowed yesterday in the mountains. I felt better after I stretched and did some deep breathing. 5. Past participle the verb form that describes an action that happened in the past and is used with a helping verb such as has have or had. It has not snowed all winter. I have waited as long as I can. 59 ----------------------------- ACT ENGLISH TEST PRACTICE ----------------------------------------- Regular Verbs Most English verbs are regular they follow a standard set of rules for forming the present participle past tense and past participle. The present participle is formed by adding -ing. The past and past participle are formed by adding -ed. If the verb ends with the letter e just add d. If the verb ends with the letter y for the past tense change the y to an i and add -ed. Here are some examples PRESENT PRESENT PARTICIPLE PAST PAST PARTICIPLE call calling called called dream dreaming dreamed dreamed grasp grasping grasped grasped manage managing managed managed .