This document discusses verb tenses in English including present, past, future, and conditional tenses. It provides examples of how to form positive, negative, and interrogative sentences for common verbs like "to be" and regular verbs using the proper auxiliaries. For the present tense, it indicates we use "do/does" for negatives and interrogatives. For past tense, the auxiliary "did" is used with regular and irregular verbs. Examples are provided for forming sentences in the future tense with "will" and conditional tense with "would".

1. Present, Past, Future and
Conditional

2.  TO BE- INDEPENDENT
 Positive: She is my mom.
 Negative: You aren’t studying French.
 Interrogative: Are there any books
here?

3.  ALL THE OTHER VERBS
 Positive: I work, you work, we work,
they work.
*Sometimes we add
 He ES (GOES)
 She works IES (CRIES)
 It

4.  It’s necessary to use the auxiliaries
DO,DOES
 Negative: I don’t work everyday.
She doesn’t like coffee.
 Interrogative: Do you work everyday?
Does she like coffee?

5. To be (am, are ,is) Was/Were
 Positive: They were here yesterday.
She was here yesterday.
 Negative:There was a book here yesterday.
There were books here yesterday.
 Interrogative: Were you sleeping yesterday
evening?
Was she sleeping yesterday
evening?

6.  ALL THE OTHER VERBS
 It’s necessary the auxiliary DID
*Regular Verbs * Irregular Verbs
ED
 Play-Played Eat- Ate
 Work- Worked See- Saw
 Clean- Cleaned Have- Had

7.  Positive: I cleaned my shoes yesterday.
 Interrogative: Did they eat yesterday?
 Negative: I didn’t play football last year.

8.  WILL (all persons)
*exception (I,we) in interrogatives. Ex: Shall we go to
the cinema? (suggestion)
 Positive: I will go to London next year.
 Negative: She won’t play.
 Interrogative: Shall I study? / Will you do your
homework tonight?

9.  Would (all persons)
 I would study if...
 I wouldn’t live here if...
 Would they meet me...