This document provides information on simple present and past tenses, common and proper nouns. It defines simple present as expressing repeated or usual actions like habits or schedules. Simple past expresses completed past actions at a specific time. Common nouns can be preceded by articles and refer to classes, while proper nouns are special names for people, places or organizations. Examples are given and activities provided for further practice.

2. WHAT IS SIMPLE PRESENT?
Use the Simple Present to express the idea
that an action is repeated or usual. The
action can be a habit, a hobby, a daily
event, a scheduled event or something
that often happens. It can also be
something a person often forgets or
usually does not do. Subject, predicate,
verb.

3. WHAT IS SIMPLE PAST TENSE?
Use the Simple Past to express the idea
that an action started and finished at a
specific time in the past. Sometimes,
the speaker may not actually mention
the specific time, but they do have one
specific time in mind.

4. EXAMPLES
I play tennis.
She does not play tennis.
Does he play tennis?
I saw a movie yesterday.
I didn't see a play yesterday.
Last year, I traveled to Japan.

5. ACTIVITIES
http://www.englishexercises.org/mak
eagame/viewgame.asp?id=2023.

6. COMMON AND PROPER NAONS

7. WHAT IS A COMMON NOUN?
noun that may be preceded by an arti
cle or other limiting modifier
and that denotes any or all of a clas
s of entities and not an individual,as
man, city, horse, music.

8. WHAT IS A PROPER NOUN ?
A proper noun is the special word (or
name) that we use for a person,
place or organization, like John,
Marie, London, France or Sony. A
name is a noun, but a very special
noun - a proper noun. Proper nouns
have special rules.

9. EXAMPLES
common noun proper noun
man, boy John
woman, girl Mary
country, town England, London
company Ford, Sony
shop, restaurant Maceys, McDonalds
month, day of the
January, Sunday
week
book, film War & Peace, Titanic

10. ACTIVITIES
http://www.mcwdn.org/gramm
ar/nouncompropquiz/nounco
mpropquiz.html