When you use "pet" as a past tense verb is it pet or petted?
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Verb form\npetted\npast tense and past participle of the verb to pet
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After present tenses! Lol
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An intransitive verb is an action verb, but it does not have a direct object. The action ends rather than being transferred to some person or object or is modified by an adverb or adverb phrase..\n\nso in the above sentence ' was ' is the intransitive verb\ntake care
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If the book is a fictional story, you should decide if the story is about events in the past or in the present, and use the corresponding tense.  With history, even history immediately past, the past tense is most appropriate.  But Maria is right about Harry Potter - you can treat stories like this as though they're taking place as the reader reads.
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did is for the past tense (you did that)\ndoes is something in the present (she does clean the house)\ndo is future (please do that)\nis - singular for the present tense (he is naughty)\nare - plural for present tense (Mark and John are late)\nam - personal use (I am a girl)\nwas - past singular (he was noisy)\nwere - past plural (Mark and John were late)
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Adverbs usually end in "ly," as in sleepily, lazily, soulfully, etc.  Also, adverbs describe adjectives or verbs.  An adjective is a word that describes a noun.  For example:\n\nThe brown dog slept.\n\n"Brown" describes the dog, so "brown" is an adjective.  Here's an example of an adverb:\n\nThe brown dog slept peacefully.\n\n"Peacefully" describes how the dog slept.  "Peacefully" doesn't describe the dog.  If you wanted to turn "peacefully" into an adjective, the sentence would look like this:\n\nThe peaceful brown dog slept.\n\nRemember, adverbs usually end in "-ly" (like "usually" just did), and they describe adjectives and verbs.
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1.  When did you buy your car?\n\nObviously you have a car.  Therefore you must have bought it in the past.  It is therefore considered to be a past action.  For past actions we use the simple past tense.\n(Answer: I bought it in 2004.)\n\n2. I've known her for three months.\n\nWe use the present pefect simple with 'stative' verbs like 'know'.  Stative verbs do not usually have a continuous ('-ing') form.  So, 'I've known her for three months' BUT 'I've been learning to drive for six weeks'.  (Present perfect continuous)\n\nI recommend 'English Grammar in Use' by Raymond Murphy (Cambridge University Press).
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Take the base verb, also known as present tense, and add ING.  List the helping verbs that must be used for the different tenses.\nPresent Progressive:  I am walking; You are walking; he/she/it is walking.  Present Progressive uses the helping verbs AM, IS, and ARE.\nPast Progressive: I was walking; You were walking; He/she/it was walking.  Past Progressive uses the helping verbs WAS and WERE.\nFuture Progressive: I shall/will be walking; You shall/will be walking; He/she/it shall be walking.  Future Progressive uses the helping verbs SHALL or WILL.\nPresent Perfect Progressive:  I have been walking; You have been walking; He/she/it has been walking.  Present Perfect Progressive uses the helping verbs HAVE BEEN and HAS BEEN.\nPast Perfect Progressive:  I had been walking; You had been walking; He/she/it had been walking.  Past Perfect Progressive uses the helping verb HAD BEEN.   \nFuture Perfect Progressive: I shall have been/will have been walking; You shall have been/will have been walking; He/she/it shall have been/will have been walking.  Future Perfect Progressive uses the helping verbs SHALL HAVE/WILL HAVE.\n\nProgressive Tenses use the helping verbs of TO BE.  If you look at future tense, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect, you will see that all you need to do is add BEEN to the other helping verbs.
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It is proper English as far as the grammar is concerned, it is the context that is off.  "My apartment has been (verb)ed" is correct grammar.  Robbed, cleaned, painted, whatever.  But closed does not make sense here.  You need to rephrase the sentence to make the meaning more clear - my apartment door has been closed, or maybe locked is what you meant.
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A ) caveat = let him beware\n\nThe same verb is found in "cave canem" ~ beware of the dog
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Both sentences are quite OK as they stand.  Changing the tenses - as some answerers have suggested - would also subtly change the meanings.\n\nE.g.\nElsie disagreed with the group and resigned.  (She did both these things yesterday or last week).\nElsie disagreed with the group and has resigned.  (She disagreed with them yesterday and has just resigned very recently as a result).\n\nSharon has set her cap over her eyes and (has) laid a towel over her legs to protect herself from the sun.  (The 'has' in brackets is understood - this is called ellipsis.  This sentence suggests that you are sitting next to her and telling someone - perhaps by phone - what she has just done.)\n\nSharon set ... (The change of tense suggests that she did both things yesterday or last week etc.  This is a more 'usual or bland' meaning).\n\nTo lay a towel over your legs - or any other part of your body - is perfectly grammatical (past tense = laid a towel ...) whatever anyone else says.
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How about\n\nAnna has bathed, and now should brush the terrier.  \n\nIt keeps "has bathed" present tense, and "should brush" is also present tense.
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It is a lot like the subject of a sentence.  It is a noun that is DOING the action rather than receiving.  Such as "The dog ran."  Dog, in that sentence, would be nominative.  But if I said "I walked my dog."  The dog would be the object of the verb and would be accusative, not nominative.
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Perfect in grammar means past. So the past subjunctive would be the only one of your choices not having a multiple word verb.
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*****\nCongratulations, buck up, and continue with your research.  You are really a crazyboy having put up such an intelligent question, challenging the intellect of linguistics. When there is no such vast difference in 'was' and 'used to be' why such a long route to communicate a view. Every body can understand the same meaning, conveyed through any one of the said verbs, that the girl is not at present a Girl-scout but was in the past only.\n\nSimilarly, it may be either 'my mother would take' or 'my mother used to take' both can well be understood in the same sense as the speaker intends to convey.\n\nContinue with your rearch.
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"knew" is "know" in the past tense. Since "did" is already in the past tense, no need to repeat it twice.\n\nSame with every verb: I didn't go (not didn't went)\nI didn't swim (not didn't swam)
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wow...thanks Jenn for setting these people straight.  "six" is an adjective (it describes pups, which is a noun); "happily" is an adverb (it descibes followed, which is a verb); "Scruffy" is a noun (it's the dog's name, and should be capitalized).