This document provides information on verb tenses and pronouns in English. It outlines the uses of the present simple, present continuous, and past simple tenses including common time expressions. It also lists subject and object personal pronouns, reflexive pronouns, rules for making nouns plural, and some irregular plural nouns.

2. Present Simple
• In present simple used the time expressions:
Every day/ week/ month/ summer, etc; usually;
often; seldom; never; always; occasionally;
sometimes; generally; normally.
• Use:
1. Habitual actions e.g. We usually go to the Algarve.
2. Permanent situations e.g. Luc lives in the Province
of Nova Scotia.
3. Programmes or timetables e.g. The film starts at
nine o’clock.
4. Generals truths of natural laws e.g. The Earth goes
round the Sun.

3. Present Continuous
• In the Present Continuous used the times
expressions: Now; at the moment; at present
(tomorrow, next week/ month, in a week, etc).
• Use
1. To discribe something taking place now, at the
moment of talking e.g. Luc is in the swimming pool.
He’s swimming.
2. For something happenig temporarily, for a short
time. e.g. Luc and Erica are staying at their
grandfather’s house this month.
3. For fixed arrangements in the near future e.g. Luc’s
suitcase is ready. He’s leaving tomorrow.

4. Past Simple
• In the Past Simple used the times expressions: yesterday;
three days/weeks/months/years ago; last week/
month/year; in 2004, on 3RD September/in those days…
• Use:
1. For habits or actions wich took place in the past. e.g. I
went to na island in Maine with a group of friend.
2. In conditional sentences for something hypothetical.
e.g. If you loved me, you wouldn’t say such cruel things.
3. For reporting what someone said in yhe past. e.g. She
said she liked the island

5. Subject Personal
Pronouns
I
You
He
She
It
We
You
They
Object Personal
Pronouns
Me
You
Him
Her
It
Us
You
Theme
Reflexive
Pronouns
Myself
Yourself
Himself
Herself
Itself
Ourselves
Yourselves
Themeselves

6. Plural of nouns
-s
-es
-ies
-ves
Song- songs
Kiss- kisses
Baby- babies
Wife – wives
Couple- couples
Box- boxes
City- cities
Knife- knives
Dream- dreams
Bus- buses
Lady – ladies
Thief – thieves
Sound- sounds
Watch – watches
Ferry – ferries
Shelf - sheves
Irregular Nouns
Man – men
Child – children
Woman – women
Mouse- mice
Fish – fish
Foot – feet
Goose – geese
Sheep – sheep
Tooth – teeth
Ox – oxen
Deer - deer
Glasses
Shorts
Clothes
Trousers
Jeans
Scissors
Person – People
Plural nouns